Hi
Here's another update on the state of the African language Wikipedias,
with a particular shoutout to Dumisani, who's been active in Xitsonga
and has helped Ndebele, the last official South African language without
a Wikipedia, onto the incubator, as well as User:Aliwal2012, who's been
editing up a storm in Northern Sotho, Afrikaans and English.
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1862
FYI
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Date: 15 April 2016 at 20:32
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Outage for planned maintenance: No
editing for two 30-minute periods next week
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This is a reminder about next week's major data center migration:
There will be NO EDITING for about 30 minutes on both Tuesday, 19
April, beginning at 14:00 UTC and Thursday, 21 April, beginning at
14:00 UTC.
This will affect ALL of the wikis in all languages and all projects.
You will be able to read the wikis and to log in, but you will not be
able to edit. Read
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2016 for more
information.
Please share this information with editors and other contributors you know.
Thank you.
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Hello everyone,
In preparation for the chapters conference I will be attending next week I
have put together a poster summarizing our biggest activities last year. I
have just realized that I forgot to include the advocacy work we did
regarding amending the copyright act to allow for Freedom of Panorama but
most of the other big things are in there with a very short summary.
I felt I should share the poster with everyone here in the chapter as well.
Cheers,
Douglas.
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Douglas Ian Scott
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Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
Hi,
This is a quick reminder that we will be hosting the 2nd Art+Feminism
edit-a-thon this Saturday (9th April) from 10am to 4pm. It will take place
at the computer lab at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at 31-37 Orange
Street in Cape Town on Hiddingh Campus, University of Cape Town in the Cape
Town city bowl.
We are looking for volunteers to help out and the event is also open to
editors who just want to add content and hangout in a supportive
environment.
Cheers,
Douglas.
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司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
FYI. A way of pre-populating smaller Wikipedias.
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1. Bachelor's thesis on ArticlePlaceholder (Lucie Kaffee)
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I wrote my Bachelor's thesis on "Generating Article Placeholders from
Wikidata for Wikipedia: Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge". The
thesis summarizes a lot of the work done on the ArticlePlaceholder
extension ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder )
I uploaded the thesis to commons under a CC-BY-SA license- you can find it
at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generating_Article_Placeholders_fro…
I continue working on the extension and aim to deploy it to the first
Wikipedias, that are interested, in the next months.
I am happy to answer questions related to the extension!
Lucie (Frimelle)
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