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.
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Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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
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Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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,
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Michael Graaf, M.Phil (UCT)
Researcher, Editor &
Community Informatics Practitioner
Mob +27795487242
WhatsApp +27647754342
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