WikimediaZA February 2012

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Another change of location for Western Province government Xhosa Wikipedia workshop
by Douglas Scott 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

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, -- 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

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Wikipedia workshop at the Cape Town archives
by Douglas Scott 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

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. -- 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

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Invitation to Wiki Africa!
by francisa＠africacentre.net 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

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

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Xhosa Wikipedia workshop at UCT
by Douglas Scott 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

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. -- 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

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Wikimania Scholarships
by Asaf Bartov 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation

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Adopt a user
by David Richfield 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

We should all know about this and promote it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee%27s_Area/Adopte…

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isiXhosa Wikipedia workshop in Cape Town: a heads up on an informal preliminary workshop
by Douglas Scott 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

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. -- 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

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