Sorry to spam everyone about the workshop tomorrow but the Provincial
Government keeps on changing the location. So now the location of the
Wikiworkshop tomorrow at 11am will be 44 Wale Street Building (corner of
Long street and Wale Street) in Cape Town.
Cheers,
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Douglas Ian Scott
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Skype: douglas0scott
UK mobile number: +44 (0)755 452 5277
Chinese mobile number: +86 1 364 330 7351
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
Hello,
I have just gotten off the phone from a person in the Western Cape
government to do a workshop at the government archives this coming Friday
in Cape Town.
If anyone is interested in joining me the location is the Western Cape
Archives and Record Service, 72 Roeland Street, Cape Town. The event will
be at 11am to 1pm on Friday, 17 February.
Now that I think about it this would also be a good opportunity to set some
thing up for a GLAM project there some time in the future. I would be
delighted to get your thoughts on perhaps doing a GLAM event there, or some
sort of GLAM project.
Thanks,
Douglas.
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Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
UK mobile number: +44 (0)755 452 5277
Chinese mobile number: +86 1 364 330 7351
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
Dear Wiki colleagues,
I am excited to invite all members of the South African chapter of
Wikimedia to participate in the Wiki Africa project that will expand
and increase the contents of Africa information in Wikipedia. Through
this invitation we hope to build a strong partnership in promoting
African content in Wikipedia.
WikiAfrica is an international collaborative project between Africa
Centre and Lettera27 that is designed to Africanize Wikipedia by
generating and expanding 30,000 articles over two years. The project
promotes a new method of acquiring and sharing knowledge that is
fully-inclusive, mainstream, intercultural and relevant to
contemporary and historic Africa. The initial two years are focused on
encouraging external Africa-based, cultural organizations, museums and
archives, as well as bloggers and journalists, to contribute their
knowledge to Wikipedia.
These initial two years focus on content related to literature,
poetry, art, cinema and other cultural products. WikiAfrica will not
exclude anything that falls outside of these categories, but focuses
most of its energy in these areas. At the same time, the WikiAfrica
project expands the African content that is already available online
and improves existing articles by combining sources and promoting the
participation of experts. WikiAfrica contributes to the aims of
Wikimedia projects online (especially the WikiProject Africa,
WikiProject African diaspora and the Africa Portal) and also works
externally with texts, quotes, images, audio and video.
The project will be approached and achieve its goals via the following
four activities:
-Create partnerships with organisations that have existing
archives that are readily accessible and that are predisposed to
placing this content online;
-Motivate the adaptation of a copyleft or Creative Commons
approach to intellectual property.
-Activate new Wikipedia users and editors in Africa through
marketing and promotion; and
-Create training tools and establish the mentorships required to
activate a new team of users and editors of Wikipedia (wikipedians).
Click on Get started
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Get_started ) or
the Project page
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Projects) to
contribute to Wiki Africa and become a member of Wiki Africa!
Please visit our incubator at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Incubator for a step
by step guide on how to start your articles for new authors.
We look forward to working with Wikimedia South Africa in knowledge
exchange, participation and contribution to this project.
For any questions don't hesitate to contact me.
Thank you
Francis Awinda
Administrator and content manager Wiki Africa
Email:francisa@africacentre.net
Tel:+27793087519
Hello,
The workshop for Xhosa language academics that I have been talking about
will be taking place this Saturday, 11th February and will run from 9am to
11am.
The venue is the Bessie Head Computer Lab in the basement of the Beattie
Building. The Beattie Building is adjacent to the Arts Block. Prof Nyamende
has told everybody and many people have indicated that they are coming. I
am told that the Lab is big enough to accommodate everyone. The time is
still 09h00 to 11h00. Please let me know if you can or are interested in
joining or helping out as it would be nice to have some extra Wikipedians
around. I will email some pictures of the workshop afterwards.
Thanks,
Douglas.
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Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
UK mobile number: +44 (0)755 452 5277
Chinese mobile number: +86 1 364 330 7351
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
Hi, everyone.
I'd like to make sure you and your fellow community members are all aware
that Wikimania Scholarship applications are being accepted, until Feb 16th.
Be sure to apply if you want to attend and have something to contribute!
All the details are here:
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
Cheers,
Asaf
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Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello everyone,
Since I have gotten such an overwhelmingly positive response from Xhosa
language practitioners on introducing them to Xhosa Wikipedia an informal
preliminary workshop for six people at the University of the Western Cape
has been organised by the African language department there. It would be
great to have some local Wikipedian volunteers to help introduce them to
editing Wikipedia. Below are the details. If you are interested in
joining us then please to let me know in advance.
Tuesday, 31/01/2012, at 13h00. University of the Western Cape, The Xhosa
Department, New Arts Building, Room D132.
Thanks,
Discott.
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Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
UK mobile number: +44 (0)755 452 5277
Chinese mobile number: +86 1 364 330 7351
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727