WikimediaZA June 2011

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Google's Wikipedia Challenge 2011
by Asaf Bartov 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

Hello, everyone. Following the success of the Google Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge<http://www.google.com/events/kiswahili-wiki/>[1] in 2009, the WMF has been in touch with Google's Nairobi office about a "Wikipedia Challenge" to be conducted in the languages Setswana, isiZulu, and Afrikaans, to be held from early August 2011 to early October 2011. This is basically a writing competition (translations are allowed) of articles, with a proposed grand prize of a sponsored trip to Wikimania 2012 (in Washington D.C.), and several smaller prizes. The competition is now at the planning phase, and we would very much like to involve some of you at WMZA on several fronts. The first and most pressing is finding volunteer judges for the articles that would be submitted. Google wants 35 judges per language, expecting each judge to need to put in 2-3 hours a week for the duration of the competition. Are you able to begin interesting your local communities in these languages and enlisting volunteers for this? And generally, could you identify an appropriate contact person? (or one per language?) This could be a very energizing program for your chapter to engage with. Google are doing most of the heavy lifting, funding-wise. Thanks, Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation [1] http://www.google.com/events/kiswahili-wiki/

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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Education opportunity in South Africa
by David Richfield 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Thanks Kieran: this is a very interesting perspective on the situation, and one that I wasn't aware of. I would be perfectly happy to work with a profit-making organisation to help them provide Wikipedia for Schools to a wider audience, as long as their aims are compatible with ours, but I would never knowingly support an organisation that is inimical towards software freedom, so I'll wait to hear a bit more before committing my time to this. Kind regards, David On 13 May 2011 9:44 PM, "Jessie Wild" <jwild(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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