WikimediaZA October 2020

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Wiki Meetup: Cape Town 22
by Douglas Scott 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

Hello everyone, We will be doing another Cape Town Wiki meetup on the 7th December. We are trying out a new location again so please note the venue change. OpenUp <https://openup.org.za/> has very kindly let us use their downstairs space at the Code Bridge in Newlands <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands,_Cape_Town> which is very near to Claremont <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont,_Cape_Town> train station and taxi rank. It also has ample free parking in front of the building. Also located nearby is Cavendish Square. Code Bridge is located in the bridge (hence the name) that allows Campground Street to cross both the railway line and Letterstedt Road. This is the same location as the Wikimedia ZA 5-year strategy workshop and AGM happening on the 14th and 15th December respectively. I will send out another email about that now. The parking and building can only be access by the Helmlock Street / Letterstedt Road entrance. Parking is free. See the location on the map to the right. In summary the details are: Date: Saturday the 7 December Time: free to arrive anytime between 10:00 - 14:00 Location: Code Bridge <https://codebridge.org.za/>, 1 Thicket St, Newlands, Cape Town, 7700 As always the meetup is open for everyone to join. So if you or anyone you know as an interest in learning more about free knowledge or just want to talk about it then please join us. For more information please see the event page on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cape_Town/Cape_Town_22 Cheers, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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South Africa Wiki Meetup 6: 31 October 2020
by Douglas Scott 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

Hello everyone, This is just to let everyone know that our next online Wiki meetup is set for the 31 October. You can see more details about it at the link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_6 Thank you Lefcentreright <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lefcentreright> for taking the initiative and setting this up. Regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Wikimedia ZA is looking for an administrator
by Douglas Scott 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Hello everyone, Wikimedia South Africa is currently looking to procure the services of an administrator to help with the day-to-day administration of the chapter. We are looking for a sole-proprietor that can do this work for the chapter for between one or two days a week depending on the workload for that week based on a daily rate for one year. Depending on grant funding we intend to renew this position annually. Please see the attached job description for more information. Please send this on to anyone who you think might be interested. Regards, Douglas. President Wikimedia South Africa -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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"Abstract Wikipedia" etc.
by Michael Graaf 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Good day Wikimedians of ZA, I'm sharing with you some of the esoteric, behind-the-scenes yet exciting stuff happening within the Wikiverse. I believe we in SA have a particular duty to engage with it because of our situation where there are such huge imbalances between our languages and their Wikipedias (and related projects). The texts I will link to explain better than I can, some of the seemingly eccentric proposals I've previously made. Abstract Wikipedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2020-10-07> (a provisional name for a still-new project) aims among other things to improve the functionality of "voice assistants". These have the potential to make Wiki content more accessible to many people. Imagine if all South African languages had something like this. <http://techiaith.cymru/packages/macsen/?lang=en> Such apps are making their way to cheaper "smart feature phones". I'm not a web developer but understand enough of the issues involved to urge our community at large to facilitate appropriate web development processes <https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/10/developing-semantic-web/>. For example, by using Wikipedia's Content Translation tool (even when we personally have no need for it), or translating labels on Wikidata (which I suspect is one of the reasons this year's Wikimedian of the Year is from Ghana; Wikimedia Ghana has held "label-thons") we are creating metadata links that enable semantic tools to do their magic. Of course if anyone reading this *is* a web developer, we look to you to take up the baton! Best regards, -- Michael Graaf, M.Phil (UCT) Researcher, Editor & Community Informatics Practitioner Mob +27795487242 WhatsApp +27647754342 ORCID 0000-0002-1951-5739

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