Congratulations from Wikimedia South Africa!
Copying our list for interest.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Ivan Martínez <galaver(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> (Sorry for crossposting)
>
> Dear all,
>
> Wikimedia Mexico is now a civic association under mexican laws, officially
> named "Wikimedia México A.C." (Asociación Civil, this is the local title).
>
> The current Board for Wikimedia México is as follows:
>
> Iván Martínez (User:ProtoplasmaKid), President.
> Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs (User:Correogsk), Vice-President.
> Salvador Alcántar (User:Salvador_alc), Secretary
> César Adrián (User:Saloca), Treasurer.
> Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito), Board Member.
> Alan Lazalde (User:Alanlzd), Board Member.
>
> Regards!
>
> --
> Atentamente:
>
> Iván Martínez
> Presidente
> Wikimedia México A.C.
> wikimedia.mx
>
> Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre
> a la suma total del conocimiento humano.
> Eso es lo que estamos haciendo.
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Hi all,
Please remember that we have a general meeting on Saturday:
The meeting will be held in two locations:
Western Cape:
The offices of the CCID: 10th floor, Terraces, 34 Bree Street, Cape
Town (Skype: douglas0scott)
Gauteng:
The offices of ITOCA: Block 12, Lords Office Park, 276 West Avenue,
Centurion (skype: daverichfield)
Skype login to either location will be officially allowed, and the two
venues will be connected via Skype.
Date and Time
23 February 2013 11:00 to 12:00
See also
http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/23-02-13-GeneralMeeting-Agenda for the web
announcement
Kind regards,
David Richfield: Secretary (Wikimedia South Africa)
Hello everyone,
Victor Grigas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas>,
Wikimedia's official storyteller (he makes videos on stories and editors
involved in the Wikipedia project) will be coming down to Cape Town from
San Francisco on the 7 April. So of you who have attended Wikimania in the
past might have met him before when he was editing editors to feature in
Wikimedia's fund raising campaigns in 2011 and 2012.
He is currently looking to interview Wikipedians (both current and former)
and he would like to know if you or anyone you know involved in editing
Wikipedia and currently in Cape Town during April would be willing to chat
with him? He is interested in learning more about how South African
editors view, use, and edit Wikipedia. He will be in Cape Town from the
7th to the 14th of April and is looking forward to learning more about the
people that edit Wikipedia in the Cape Town area and share
that knowledge with everyone else.
Here is an example of an interview with an editor (in her house) which he
did and was sent out in an email to 150,000 US-only donors for the
valentines day holiday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLHZUIVdPU0
He is also on the look out for a South Africa/Africa specific article that
is an example of collaberation creating excellence. For example (in
Victor's words) "talking about a particular Wikipedia page that through
arguing and debate and fact-checking has become a quality article. This is
something that I would be particularly interested in doing." So if you
have any ideas dont hesitate to drop Victor an email.
If you are interested in being interviewed either feel free to drop me a
line or contact him directly (chop out the unnecessary middle man, namely
myself) at vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org.
Thanks,
Douglas.
P.S. I am looking forward to seeing many of the Cape Town based editors at
the upcoming Special General Meeting
<http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/23-02-13-GeneralMeeting-Agenda> this
Saturday.
--
Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 872
FYI
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "James Forrester" <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2013 1:44 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury
To: "wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
All,
For info.
Yours,
James.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
Date: 17 February 2013 15:40
Subject: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)"
<wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[Please note that I send this purely as a volunteer, and in no
connexion to the Wikimedia Foundation.]
Dear all,
I write to announce the Jury to select which bid will be chosen to
host Wikimania in 2014.
The twelve members will be:
* Deror Avi - [[User:Deror avi]] from Israel (Wikimania 2011 General
Manager)
* Philippe Beaudette - [[User:Philippe (WMF)]] from the US (Wikimedia
Foundation Director, Community Advocacy)
* Jeromy-Yu Chan - [[User:Yuyu]] from HK (Wikimania 2013
Co-ordinator-in-Chief)
* Shujen Chang - [[User:Shujenchang]] from HK
* Florence Devouard - [[User:Anthere]] from France
* Orsolya Gyenes - [[User:OrsolyaVirág]] from Hungary (Wikimania 2012
Deputy Program Chair)
* James Hare - [[User:Harej]] from the US (Wikimania 2012 Co-chair)
* Achal Prabhala - [[User:Aprabhala]] from India - Wikimedia Advisory
Board member
* Konarak Ratnakar - [[User:Kondicherry]] from India
* Noopur Raval - [[User:Noopur28]] from India
* Manuel Schneider - [[User:80686]] from Austria (Wikimedia
Österreich; perpetual Wikimania organiser)
* [[User:Whiteghost.ink]] from Australia
Jan-Bart de Vreede and Sam Klein (of the Wikimedia Foundation Board)
will also be part of the Jury, as normal.
I and Phoebe Ayers - [[User:Phoebe]] - will be serving as moderators,
neutral aides for the Jury who do not vote.
To re-iterate what we've said before, it would be lovely if this was
the last year we used this process, and that for 2015 onwards we could
create a new, community-led and more open and transparent process.
Some earlier discussions took place at [[m:Talk:Wikimania Advisory
Group]]. Please feel free to give your thoughts there.
As a reminder, bids have two weeks (until 23:59 UTC on 3 March 2013)
until bidding creation closes. All cities which intend to run for the
bidding process should have created a page on meta and entered the
official list by this point.
Thank you, and good luck to all Bids.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
capacity)
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
capacity)
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Hear ye, hear ye
It is agreat pleasure to announce the formal endorsement of JoburgpediA
concept and the pilot project under this name, by the City of Johannesburg.
This means that we now have the permission to install QRcoded ceramic
plaques next to the prestigious City of Johannesburg Heritage plaques!
JoburgpediA follows on the foot steps of MonmouthpediA that was a great
success in Wales, and will be the first such project in Africa. Where
better to start it than in our very own Joburg?
The pilot project will be implemented between February and June 2013 and
will depend on a lot of volunteer wikimedians to assist in:
1- Translating submitted meta data into as many local languages as
possible. As well as French, German and Portuguese.
2- Organising and conducting 2 editathons.
3- Setting up and batch uploads of meta data that will be donated into
Wikipedia.
4- Creating templates
If you feel this is something you would like to spend the next 4 months
doing then please contact the project leads as follows:
Dumisani Ndubane : thuvack(a)gmail.com
David Richfield: dacidrichfield(a)gmail.com
You can also access basic project information and follow project progress
on our chapter wiki below:
http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Jo'burgpediA
We look foward to your positive response and feel free to extend this
invitation to your friend and families who may be as passionate about
Jo'burg.
Regards
Dumisani Ndubane
President of Wikimedia ZA