Hi all,
Now that we're incorporated, we need to grow our membership so as to
achieve critical mass.
According to the consititution, "Any person who makes a written
application to become a member of the company and whose application is
accepted by the directors shall be and become a member of the
company."
Dumisani has expressed interest and been welcomed on the email lists,
but I'd like to get confirmation that he has been formally accepted as
a member. I support his membership.
Maarten has asked how he can become a member, which I take to be a
written request, and I also support his membership.
I am sure that if we ask Douglas whether he wants to be a member,
he'll join, and I'd like to ask pre-emptively whether anyone has an
objection to his membership.
I'd also like us to agree on a membership process. One reasonable way
to approach this would be to require a prospective member to contact a
board member or post directly to the WMZA list. A director can then
approve his or her membership tenatively with a posting to the board
list - with no objections within two weeks, or with all directors'
agreement, that director should then be allowed to approve the
membership request formally. Please give me your feedback on this
proposal.
In terms of getting new members, we urgently need to get more
Wikimedia project people into the organisation. We can do this by
advertising on the wikis.
Wikiproject South Africa:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_South_Africa The
Wikiproject South Africa is quite active, and I think we should all
join it, and announce any meetups on the project page.
We should try to get banners on South African language Wikis ASAP:
The only really active one is Afrikaans: http://af.wikipedia.org . We
have none of the more active af-wiki editors in our membership, which
is a shame. I'm sure we can fix this soon by simply approaching them
and letting them know who we are and what we're doing.
Registered but less active:
http://nso.wikipedia.org - Sepedi Wikipedia has 568 pages, but not
very many active editors. I see Mohau has been editing a bit there.
http://zu.wikipedia.org - isiZulu Wikipedia has 543 pages, and a
relatively similar state to Sepedi.
http://tn.wikipedia.org - Setswana Wikipedia has 491 pages, but not
very much seems to be going on there since the Google challenge
finished.
http://ss.wikipedia.org - siSwati Wikipedia has 361 pages, slightly
less active than Sepedi and isiZulu
http://ts.wikipedia.org - Xitsonga Wikipedia only has 193 pages, but
seems to have more activity recently, and has a nicer-looking front
page than many similar-sized minor language Wikipedias. I see
Dumisani (Thuvack) has been active there, maybe he can help connect
with the community.
http://ve.wikipedia.org - tshiVenda Wikipedia has 190 pages, but
doesn't seem active at all at the moment.
http://st.wikipedia.org - Sesotho Wikipedia has 145 pages, but doesn't
seem very active.
http://xh.wikipedia.org - isiXhosa Wikipedia has 136 pages, but is not
active lately.
If we can manage to connect to active users in these Wikipedias, we
might be able to get them to write a note on the front page asking
users to connect with us, to build community connections.
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nr/Main_Page - Southern Ndebele
has one article, about the National Language Service, so I doubt
there's a community to work with.
I think we should also ask for a geolocated banner ad: this way anyone
who uses Wikipedia in South Africa can be alerted to our existence,
and hopefully we'll get some traction.
Kind regards,
David
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Hey,
as we are a little bit behind schedule, I went trough the checklist
start advertising the project in your local Wikimedia community
-> to be done. I can do Afrikaans (but need help on this), who will do
English and Sotho/Xhosa/...
-> pre-announcement at the local Village Dump
start a discussion on defining communication channels
-> I propose to use email (we can use the existing mailinglist
WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org), Twitter (who makes a new Twitter account?
eg. WikiMonumentsZA )
lists of monuments
->tomorrow with SAHRA, important meeting!
structure the lists, allow for people to report errors
->to be done
create a local helpdesk
->to be done, I propose to use a subpagina of the commons page
website
-> fill with content (see examples of the other countries, easy)
-> finish the content for that website
IRL meeting
-> would be good. Mid June in Joburg?
Start looking for sponsorships
->tbd
Think on promotion material
->I will arrange with Andrew
Start working on local events programme
->Who wants to help with this?
(I now have to run of to the meeting with the journalist :-))
Groete,
Maarten
Hi everyone
I have set up the WikiLovesMonuments ZA page:
https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesMonumentsZa
Please like and then I can add you as admin.
Thanks!
Isla
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Marketing and Communications Manager
Project Manager : WikiAfrica
a. 5th Floor, 28 St George¹s Mall, Cape Town w. www.africacentre.net
t. +27 87 150 5446 f. +27 21 418 5385 skype. islahaddow
The Africa Centre is a non-profit social innovator that provides a platform
for
exploring contemporary Pan-African cultural practice as a catalyst for
social change.
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> Hey,
>
> as we are a little bit behind schedule, I went trough the checklist
>
> start advertising the project in your local Wikimedia community
> -> to be done. I can do Afrikaans (but need help on this), who will do
> English and Sotho/Xhosa/...
>
> -> pre-announcement at the local Village Dump
>
> start a discussion on defining communication channels
> -> I propose to use email (we can use the existing mailinglist
> WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org), Twitter (who makes a new Twitter account?
> eg. WikiMonumentsZA )
>
> lists of monuments
> ->tomorrow with SAHRA, important meeting!
>
> structure the lists, allow for people to report errors
> ->to be done
>
> create a local helpdesk
> ->to be done, I propose to use a subpagina of the commons page
>
> website
> -> fill with content (see examples of the other countries, easy)
> -> finish the content for that website
>
> IRL meeting
> -> would be good. Mid June in Joburg?
>
> Start looking for sponsorships
> ->tbd
>
> Think on promotion material
> ->I will arrange with Andrew
>
> Start working on local events programme
> ->Who wants to help with this?
>
>
> (I now have to run of to the meeting with the journalist :-))
>
> Groete,
> Maarten
>
Hello Ian and Barry,
Free Wikipedia access from mobile phones will be really great for South
Africa, and I hope this access will also include other handheld devices like
tablets.
Sailas Nyareza
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American International Health Alliance
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Hi all,
We have now had membership requests from David Lewis and Douglas Scott.
I propose that we approve them as members with immediate effect as per
our articles of incorporation.
I also propose that we select one of the directors to act as a
membership secretary, with the job of maintaining a list on the Wiki
with the names of our members and directors, and with the power to
approve new members without consulting the rest of the board. I'm
happy to do this, but if any of you want the job, you're welcome.
Kind regards,
David
Hi
Not sure how to go about it, but I wouldn't mind putting myself forward as a
member. Please let me know the procedures.
Warmest
Isla
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Isla Haddow-Flood
Marketing and Communications Manager
Project Manager : WikiAfrica
a. 5th Floor, 28 St George¹s Mall, Cape Town w. www.africacentre.net
t. +27 87 150 5446 f. +27 21 418 5385 skype. islahaddow
The Africa Centre is a non-profit social innovator that provides a platform
for
exploring contemporary Pan-African cultural practice as a catalyst for
social change.
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>
> We have now had membership requests from David Lewis and Douglas Scott.
>
> I propose that we approve them as members with immediate effect as per
> our articles of incorporation.
>
> I also propose that we select one of the directors to act as a
> membership secretary, with the job of maintaining a list on the Wiki
> with the names of our members and directors, and with the power to
> approve new members without consulting the rest of the board.? I'm
> happy to do this, but if any of you want the job, you're welcome.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> David
>
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Some idiot on Wikipedia is trying to delete the cover of Kagenna Magazine
because there is no evidence on the Internet from 1989 that the image was
published under a Copyleft license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:Edit09.jpg Does this person have any idea what a world without the
Internet looks like?
I am totally frustrated, since I am the editor who published said image
under the aforementioned copyleft license and do not have any way of
providing proof in the format required before the damn deadline on 22 May.
Could Wikimedia ZA please assist me since I am snowed under with work and
do not have time to sort this out.
I am able to supply an SAPS letter, Affidavit, and photograph of the
license.
David Robert Lewis
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Hello everyone
Unfortunately it took us much longer to get back to you than expected. We (or at least me) didn't know that Isla was on holiday, so there was some sort of confusion along the away. Maarten and me wrote a little report on our meeting with the government heritage officials last week, which can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/WLMMeeting1. We essentially just want to know if the WMZA board approve of this idea and whether we can go forward with discussions regarding it with government. We would appreciate any comments as soon as possible, because we need to arrange the next meetings and so forth.
As mentioned in the report; we have their full support and they committed to a formal partnership with
Wikimedia ZA should this proposal get approved by the board. If there is any further questions, feel free to ask. Anyone else is also more than welcome to comment regarding this idea of ours. Thanks.
Kind regards
Lourie