Hello everyone,
This is a quick reminder to everyone that the 4th Cape Town Wiki
meet-up<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape_Town#Sunday_2nd_February>will
be happening on the 2nd February 2014. All Wiki editors (such as
Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikivoyage, ectra.) and people interested in open
software and information are invited to join.
It is a small, informal, casual affair so feel free to arrive any time
between 11am and 2pm. There will be free access to internet and a free cup
of coffee or two.
*Details:*
*Date*: Sunday, 2nd February 2014
*Time*: 11am to 2pm
*Location*: *Truth Coffee <http://www.truthcoffee.com/>*, 36 Buitenkant St,
Cape Town 8000, South Africa.
Wikimedia ZA has access to the offices above the cafe' so we will move the
event there after 2pm if needs be.
For more information please contact Douglas at douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com or
079 515 8727.
Best regards,
Wikimedia ZA.
Dear Wiki Loves Monuments volunteers,
We are happy to announce the launch of Wiki Loves Sea Turtle Monuments!
A brand new global project surrounding the majestic sea turtles has been launched on Wikimedia Commons! MEDASSET (The Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles) has set up the foundation for what we aim to be an encyclopedic reference of sea turtle related monuments from around the world.
Sea turtles are found in all corners of the Earth, having roamed the world's oceans for 100 million years. Their significance as a symbol has been commemorated by various cultures all throughout history and it will be essential to our cause to document their emblematic status through photographs; it will help us raise awareness about the dangers they face because of human activity.
We were inspired by "Wiki loves monuments" and are appealing to you, the volunteers from around the world that made Wiki Loves Monuments the most successful photography competition in the world! Please help our project succeed and do your part in helping our natural heritage survive!
What can you do?
MEDASSET is a non profit environmental organisation working since 1988 to protect sea turtles in the Mediterranean. This is our first project which reaches out to Wikimedians and we need your help.
Perhaps through Wiki Loves Monuments images of sea turtle monuments have already been uploaded onto Wikimedia commons. Can you help us locate them? Just add the Category (Sea Turtle Monuments) to images depicting sea turtles!
Please take a moment and visit seaturtlemonuments.medasset.org and also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sea_Turtle_Monuments to read more about Wiki Loves Sea Turtle Monuments and look at the images collected so far.
Our project aims at establishing a public domain encyclopedic reference for sea turtle related outdoor monuments which will contribute to open and free knowledge. Please help us make this possible!
If you have other recommendations or ideas for us, we are looking forward to receiving your feedback. Your experience is valuable to us!
With very best wishes for a Happy New Year,
Jenny Ioannou
Head of Communications | MEDASSET-Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles
E: <mailto:medasset@medasset.org> medasset(a)medasset.org |1c Licavitou St., 106 72 Athens, GREECE
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Hi Bobby
The people generally prefer to use their individual group names (e.g. !Kung, Khwe, Gwi - spelling debatable), which would be used in titles for separate Wikipedia articles on each group.
They are divided on a collective term (which is essentially a choice between San, Bushmen and Basarwa), so it would be the luck of the draw which answer you get from one person. Since 1993 their representatives have chosen San as the more neutral term (and confirmed it in 1996 and 1997 with no change since then).
Regards
Helen
----- Original Message -----
From: bobby shabangu
To: Helen Riding
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikipedia move discussion: Bushmen article
Hi Helen and Nkansah,
I think the easiest thing is to ask one of these people because according to my understanding they are divided into many groups, you might find out that they don't call themselves "San people or Bushmen" , they might be the khoi san, the Nama, they might be the Nkqa/qa or something very different from what we English speakers know them to be, otherwise for the artilcle i feel San people has more dignity to refer to a people. i'll check out the article later on !
Regards
Bobby
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Helen Riding <helenriding(a)mweb.co.za> wrote:
Hi Rexford
Thanks for your interest.
I personally don't think "Bushmen" is a completely inappropriate term (although some people have strong feelings either way). The question here is really what the primary term or default term is, in terms of what reliable English language sources use and what the people themselves prefer.
I agree that the content of the article (and many others) needs improving. I have focussed only on the nomenclature section so far. It is a lot of work overhauling an article completely and I have come to terms with the fact that I can only do so much on my own.
Regards
Helen
----- Original Message -----
From: Nkansah Rexford
To: Helen Riding
Cc: WikimediaZA List
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikipedia move discussion: Bushmen article
Hi Helen,
I just read through the discussion and its interesting for me so far. Many support the idea of changing to San people.
Well, I think it doesn't _really_ matter whether its 'San people' or 'bushmen'. Though the name 'bushman' might sound completely inappropriate ( or even perhaps insulting), I think content on the page is what really needs to be improved.
Personally, I've never known them to be San people (until today) and I'm sure many people ( perhaps over 70% of the world ) know such people as bushmen.
Currently, the article 'San people' redirects to 'Bushmen' which I see it to be same. (Changing the title will just make the redirection inverse)
If the word 'bushmen' its inappropriate, then I guess it shouldn't be mentioned even in the article, even if the title is changed to 'San people'
Rexford | Africa Center | wikiafrica.net | sent from Tab
On Jan 16, 2014 10:12 AM, "Helen Riding" <helenriding(a)mweb.co.za> wrote:
Hi, this is my first mailing to this list so I hope it's appropriate.
I have proposed a move from the "Bushmen" Wikipedia article title to "San people". If you have not already done so, please participate in the move discussion so we can reach a consensus.
The last discussion took place almost two years ago with little participation despite numerous complaints posted on the article talk page. I spent some time researching the facts and improving the nomenclature section of the article so that people could make a more informed decision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bushmen#Requested_move_12_January_2014
Thanks
Helen
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Hi, this is my first mailing to this list so I hope it's appropriate.
I have proposed a move from the "Bushmen" Wikipedia article title to "San people". If you have not already done so, please participate in the move discussion so we can reach a consensus.
The last discussion took place almost two years ago with little participation despite numerous complaints posted on the article talk page. I spent some time researching the facts and improving the nomenclature section of the article so that people could make a more informed decision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bushmen#Requested_move_12_January_2014
Thanks
Helen
Dear All
The community leads have put out a call for submission of ideas for the logo
to represent Africa¹s version on Wikimania ... Wiki Indaba
To learn about wikiindaba, please follow here:
http://wikiindaba.net/
To submit a logo, please follow here
http://wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=WikiIndaba:Logo_Submission
Logo submissions is currently open from now till some few days ahead. Please
bring out the creative ideas in you.
I have put forth two logos I thought of. Please add yours if you've got any.
And one more thing, Wikimania conference has red and blue as colors for the
logo. Wiki indaba needs one or two colors.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks
Isla Haddow-Flood
071 491 4101
skype: islahaddow
twitter: @havingaflood
instgram: islig
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow
Linked in: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/isla-haddow-flood
------ End of Forwarded Message
Dear Wiki Loves Monuments volunteers,
We are happy to announce the launch of Wiki Loves Sea Turtle Monuments!
A brand new global project surrounding the majestic sea turtles has been
launched on Wikimedia Commons! MEDASSET (The Mediterranean Association
to Save the Sea Turtles) has set up the foundation for what we aim to be
an encyclopedic reference of sea turtle related monuments from around
the world.
Sea turtles are found in all corners of the Earth, having roamed the
world's oceans for 100 million years. Their significance as a symbol has
been commemorated by various cultures all throughout history and it will
be essential to our cause to document their emblematic status through
photographs; it will help us raise awareness about the dangers they face
because of human activity.
We were inspired by "Wiki loves monuments" and are appealing to you, the
volunteers from around the world that made Wiki Loves Monuments the most
successful photography competition in the world! Please help our project
succeed and do your part in helping our natural heritage survive!
What can you do?
MEDASSET is a non profit environmental organisation working since 1988
to protect sea turtles in the Mediterranean. This is our first project
which reaches out to Wikimedians and we need your help.
Perhaps through Wiki Loves Monuments images of sea turtle monuments have
already been uploaded onto Wikimedia commons. Can you help us locate
them? Just add the Category (Sea Turtle Monuments) to images depicting
sea turtles!
Please take a moment and visit seaturtlemonuments.medasset.org and also
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sea_Turtle_Monuments to read
more about Wiki Loves Sea Turtle Monuments and look at the images
collected so far.
Our project aims at establishing a public domain encyclopedic reference
for sea turtle related outdoor monuments which will contribute to open
and free knowledge. Please help us make this possible!
If you have other recommendations or ideas for us, we are looking
forward to receiving your feedback. Your experience is valuable to us!
With very best wishes for a Happy New Year,
Jenny Ioannou
Head of Communications | MEDASSET-Mediterranean Association to Save the
Sea Turtles
E: medasset(a)medasset.org <mailto:medasset@medasset.org> |1c Licavitou
St., 106 72 Athens, GREECE
T: + 30 210 3613572, + 30 210 3640389, F: + 30 210 3613572
Connect: Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/MEDASSET.ORG> |Twitter
<https://twitter.com/MEDASSET> | YouTube
<http://www.youtube.com/user/MEDASSETGR> | LinkedIn
<http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=4374562> |
www.euroturtle.org <http://www.euroturtle.org/> | www.medasset.or
<http://www.medasset.org/> g
Protecting marine biodiversity in the Mediterranean since 1988
Have a look at our latest "Turtle...Dives" e-newsletter
<http://medasset.org/newsletter/issue_11-3/>
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Hello everyone,
This is just to let you know that there will be a Wiki-meetup
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape_Town#Sunday_2nd_February>on
the first Sunday of February at Truth Coffee.
Location: Truth Coffee, 36 Buitenkant St, Cape Town 8000, South Africa
Contact number: +27 21 200 0440
Time: 1pm onwards
We have some complementary vouchers for coffee from Truth Coffee so the
first coffee or two is free. So please come on down and join us.
Cheers,
--
Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
Dear Prof. Visser, Dr. Dlali, Mr. Mavela and Mrs Sijadu,
I am the secretary of Wikimedia South Africa, an organisation that
works within South Africa to make good on the Wikimedia Foundation's
vision of making the sum of all human knowledge available to every
human being.
Recently, I received a request for assistance from Anna Koval at the
Wikimedia Foundation: Wikipedia in isiXhosa is currently a very small
project, and one of the aspects that is hampering its growth, is that
the interface, i.e. the buttons, menus and instructions, are not yet
in isiXhosa. They need help translating it.
If any of you or your students would like to get involved with this
endeavour, please contact me, Anna (copied on this email) or any
member of the Wikimedia South Africa board:
http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Board and we will be eager to
collaborate.
Thanks for your kind consideration,
Yours faithfully,
--
David Richfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slashme
+491723724440