The first year event was a great success with participation of Ministers, CEOs and Media and according the plan, we have to schedule it again this year to give answer to questions of our participants.Always in order to promote our country as a Dreaming Destination... Knowledge about Tourism and its outcomes must be everybody's concern.
All for Tourism, Tourism for All!Share this event on Facebook
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Event: Tokende Africa Conference
Date: Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 9:00 AM <span class="pipe">-</span> Friday, December 15, 2017 at 6:00 PM (WAT)
Location: <b>Centre Culturel Boboto</b><br />7 Avenue Père Boka<br />Kinshasa 2192<br />Congo - Kinshasa<br />
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The first year event was a great success with participation of Ministers, CEOs and Media and according the plan, we have to schedule it again this year to give answer to questions of our participants.Always in order to promote our country as a Dreaming Destination... Knowledge about Tourism and its outcomes must be everybody's concern.
All for Tourism, Tourism for All!
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Hi all,
We are excited to announce that the application is open
<https://goo.gl/forms/dimatR4UKCjWSOwn1> for attending the Wikimedia
Diversity Conference 2017
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference_2017>, 3-5
November in Stockholm, Sweden.
Please help share this with staff and volunteers who want to work together
and share strategies to support and promote diversity in the Wikimedia
movement.
There are (at least) four reasons to register:
-
Participate: All interested participants must register to show their
interest in attending the conference and that they qualify given the theme
of the conference.
-
Shape the program: The first section of the registration is about the
conference program and the questions are for interested participants to let
the organising team know what they wish to learn, share and the kind of
experience they have from working with diversity in Wikimedia. The
participants are the core of the conference.
-
Lead activities: Anyone who registers can indicate if they want to lead
activities during the conference, such as talks, discussions and/or
training. With this information, the organising team will approach
participants on how to engage in the conference and actively contribute to
shaping the program. There will not be a traditional separate proposal
submission process.
-
Apply for scholarship: The registration form also has a section for
scholarship
application
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference_2017/Scholar…>
and participants who want to apply for scholarship 2 and 3 should do so by
20 August (they are mainly intended for volunteers).
We look forward to hosting these discussions on diversity and Wikimedia
impact in Stockholm.
Best Regards,
John
- - - -
John Andersson
Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se <JohnAndersson86(a)hotmail.com>
Visiting address: Hantverkargatan 21 2tr, 112 21 Stockholm, Sweden
Hello John A,
Thank you so much for this wonderful information.
Regards,
Alangi Derick N
Wikimedians of Cameroon
User Group
On Jul 6, 2017 7:49 PM, "Art + Feminism" <info(a)artandfeminism.org> wrote:
Thank you for the information!
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:26 AM John Andersson <john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se>
wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> We just received the great news that the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
> 2017[1] has received the full grant from the Wikimedia Foundation's Event
> Grants.[2] We look very much forward to hosting the conference and to
> welcome you to Stockholm the 3-5 November 2017.
>
> We now need your help in making it a success! We invite members from your
> Wikimedia organization or user group to sign up as ambassadors for the
> conference.[3] Ambassadors are champions of Diversity on Wikimedia and
> volunteer to use that power to support the conference in several ways.
>
> -
>
> Support before the conference. Ambassadors help communicate to local
> communities that the conference will happen and provide updates of the
> planning process, such as when to register and how to apply for scholarship
> and why submit a proposal. The other way is to provide constructive input
> and ideas for the program and for the overall event. Ambassadors can also
> organize discussions at other conferences taking place prior to the
> Diversity conference.
> -
>
> Support during the conference. Ambassadors can also volunteer their
> champion powers during the conference to support documentation and curation
> of discussions and insights, facilitate the implementation of the program
> with the facilitation team, support participants with helpful advice and
> on-site information.
> -
>
> Support after the conference. Ambassadors help disseminate the
> knowledge gained during the conference to their communities and to
> participate in networks to continue working with Diversity.
>
>
> Active participation as an ambassador will support a scholarship
> application.
>
> We would be grateful if you could forward this possibility to your
> communities.
>
> Furthermore, we are actively looking for more funding from sponsors, but
> we do have limited opportunities to provide scholarships and only parts of
> the travel costs for participants can currently be covered. If your
> Wikimedia organization has the opportunity to provide a full or partial
> scholarship for your volunteers or staff, please let us know. We would be
> happy to highlight your involvement and support on the conference
> portal.[3]
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to get in
> contact with us!
>
> We intend to send out the registration form at the end of next week.
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference_2017
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/
> Diversity_Conference_2017
>
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia Diversity Conference
> 2017/Ambassadors
>
> Kind regards,
>
> John
>
> - - - -
>
> John Andersson
>
> Executive Director
>
> Wikimedia Sverige
>
> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 <073-396%2051%2089>
>
> Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
>
> Skype: johnandersson86
>
> Visiting address: Hantverkargatan 21 2tr, 112 21 Stockholm
>
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Siân Evans + Jacqueline Mabey + McKensie Mack + Michael Mandiberg
Lead Co-Organizers
info(a)artandfeminism.org
www.artandfeminism.org
Hi everybody,
We just received the great news that the Wikimedia Diversity Conference
2017[1] has received the full grant from the Wikimedia Foundation's Event
Grants.[2] We look very much forward to hosting the conference and to
welcome you to Stockholm the 3-5 November 2017.
We now need your help in making it a success! We invite members from your
Wikimedia organization or user group to sign up as ambassadors for the
conference.[3] Ambassadors are champions of Diversity on Wikimedia and
volunteer to use that power to support the conference in several ways.
-
Support before the conference. Ambassadors help communicate to local
communities that the conference will happen and provide updates of the
planning process, such as when to register and how to apply for scholarship
and why submit a proposal. The other way is to provide constructive input
and ideas for the program and for the overall event. Ambassadors can also
organize discussions at other conferences taking place prior to the
Diversity conference.
-
Support during the conference. Ambassadors can also volunteer their
champion powers during the conference to support documentation and curation
of discussions and insights, facilitate the implementation of the program
with the facilitation team, support participants with helpful advice and
on-site information.
-
Support after the conference. Ambassadors help disseminate the knowledge
gained during the conference to their communities and to participate in
networks to continue working with Diversity.
Active participation as an ambassador will support a scholarship
application.
We would be grateful if you could forward this possibility to your
communities.
Furthermore, we are actively looking for more funding from sponsors, but we
do have limited opportunities to provide scholarships and only parts of the
travel costs for participants can currently be covered. If your Wikimedia
organization has the opportunity to provide a full or partial scholarship
for your volunteers or staff, please let us know. We would be happy to
highlight your involvement and support on the conference portal.[3]
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to get in
contact with us!
We intend to send out the registration form at the end of next week.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference_2017
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/
Diversity_Conference_2017
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia Diversity Conference
2017/Ambassadors
Kind regards,
John
- - - -
John Andersson
Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige
Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 <073-396%2051%2089>
Email: john.andersson(a)wikimedia.se
Skype: johnandersson86
Visiting address: Hantverkargatan 21 2tr, 112 21 Stockholm
Dear all
In Wikimedia Conference 2016, in Berlin, we talked with Wikimedia Italia
about promoting some joint activity. At that time it was commented that for
example a common theme could be something as simple as ancient Roman
thermae.
Months later, in Wikimania Esino Lario, we talked about this idea to many
people from other Wikimedia groups and chapters, from Europe, North Africa
and Middle East, and in general we verified a good acceptance as a simple
activity that we could share a large number of people.
We keep working on this and we have important news. From Wikimedia España
we are going to organize an editathon on October 7 at the National
Archaeological Museum, in Madrid. The goal will be to improve and create
articles on Roman thermae, for which we are working on a list of items.
Also, during Wiki Loves Monuments, which is held in September, we will
create a special category of prizes only for Roman thermae; those photos
obtained during the contest could be used later in Wikipedia articles.
Therefore, we encourage you to promote some activity related to this topic
between your community and work, and have fun!, with an architectural
heritage that we all share.
For any doubt or suggestion, do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
Rubén Ojeda | Programme Coordinator | Wikimedia España
rubenojeda(a)wikimedia.es | @rubojeda <https://twitter.com/rubojeda>
Hello,
I am writing to you on behalf of Wikimedia Sweden. We are currently working
on Connected Open Heritage, a project aimed at collecting information about
the world's cultural heritage and putting it on Wikidata (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage).
As part of the project, we want to import the monument lists created for
the Wiki Loves Monuments competition to Wikidata. However, for us to be
able to do that, we have to ascertain that the data has a
Wikidata-compatible copyright status: the CC0 ("No Rights Reserved")
license. We know that the WLM lists are collected from various sources, so
finding out their copyright status is not always easy.
We are reaching out to you because Morocco has participated in Wiki Loves
Monuments. We would greatly appreciate if you could point us to the
source(s) used for compiling the monuments list, if that's available, or
put us in touch with someone who might have this information.
Thank you for your help!
Regards,
Alicia Fagerving
Developer
Wikimedia Sverige
alicia.fagerving(a)wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 73 950 09 56
Chers amis,
Je vous remercie pour votre intérêt à améliorer la couverture des darijas sur les projets de Wikimedia Foundation. J'ai entendu parler cette semaine d'une sorte d'Académie de la Darija marocaine nommée Centre de promotion de la Darija de la Fondation Zakoura éducation. Cette académie a défini des normes morphologiques et sémantiques (Système d'écriture standard fait par des scientifiques) pour écrire le marocain. Elle a aussi publié un dictionnaire monolingue (marocain-marocain). Ce serait une très bonne initiative d'adopter le système d'écriture créé par cette association pour localiser les messages wiki. En outre, il sera bien d'implémenter le dictionnaire qui a été réalisé par l'association dans un Wiktionnaire en marocain. Il sera bien de contacter l'association et leur demander d'enrichir leur dictionnaire à partir du travail du professeur Mohamed Maamouri qui apparaitra dans deux mois. Pour plus d'informations sur ce travail, http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/georgetown-dictionary-moroccan-a….
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The Georgetown Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic | Georgetown ...<http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/georgetown-dictionary-moroccan-a…>
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Merci énormément,
Turki Houcemeddine
Hello everyone!
We are Iberocoop <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Portada/es>,
the ibero american network of chapters and user groups. Since 2015 , we are
launching an editing contest during the month of the woman.
The edition contest is known in Spanish as “La mujer que nunca conociste” in
english "The Woman You Never meet". In 2015, 364 new articles were created,
a figure multiplied by 4 in 2016, with 1264 new articles. This year 2017,
we want the proposal to have global reach! To do this, we would like to
invite all chapters and users groups to adapt and promote the contest to
their local contexts.
We are starting to work to have everything needed prepared to organize this
year's contest: logo, rules for editing including the gender perspective
and we can even think about awarding prizes internationally!.
But for this to happen we need to know who would be interested in pushing
this initiative.
The competition will take place from March 4 to April 9, 2017 and its main
objectives will be:
1. Improve women's content on Wikipedia: not just women's articles, but
organizations, feminist movements, etc.
2. Inviting editing with a gender perspective: make Wikipedia a more
quality space.
3. Involve more female as editors in Wikipedia, as well as in the Wikimedia
community: complement the contest with editing workshops with feminist or
groups of women, in each country, to favor their inclusion as editors and
community members, for example.
What do you think?Is this something people would be interested in and like
to join?
If the answer is yes (hopefully!) let us now your interest in the
following meta
page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_women_you_never_meet>.
We thank you in advance for the time you can take on this matter.
Hugs!
--
Anna Torres Adell
Directora Ejecutiva
*A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*
