WikimediaZA May 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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African translators needed
by Adri Baard 27 May '20

27 May '20

Good morning everyone The Moleskin Foundation has teamed up with Wikimedia to translate specific COVID-19 articles into 10 African languages. While all languages are welcome, these have been identified as focus areas. We however need all our editors help in getting these core articles translated and checked. - Urhobo - Eleme Language - *Shona* - *isiXhosa* - Yoruba - Ewe - *KiSwahili* - *isiZulu* - Hausa - Igbo Should you be interested in helping with this project, please contact me or any of the board members for more information. Should you be new to editing, help will be given in getting your translated article posted. Again, if your native language is not listed above, we would still love your assistance in getting the English articles translated into your native language. Kind regards Adri

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Fwd: Education Digest, Vol 108, Issue 7
by Michael Graaf 26 May '20

26 May '20

Hi all, see below. Those who are able to attend online events are welcome at this one, a demo of a new feature in the Content Translation tool which allows structural elements such as illustrations, infoboxes etc. to be easily transferred from one wiki to another. In other words the tool is no longer only for translation but also some layout. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, May 26, 2020 at 2:03 PM Subject: Education Digest, Vol 108, Issue 7 To: <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Send Education mailing list submissions to education(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to education-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at education-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Education digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, May 2020 (Pine W) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 20:25:57 +0000 From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> To: Wiki Research-l <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, May 2020 Message-ID: <CAF=dyJh4F8jsynLvGphVZ=7zDT6cNW89mcdByC+6iu_uT4iT3w(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" This might be of interest to some Research and Education folks too. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> Date: Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:22 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, May 2020 To: wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello, This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its connection to Wikimedia Projects. This new installment will deal with the latest design research about the upcoming section translation feature for Content Translation. This session is going to be broadcast over Zoom, and a recording will be published for later viewing. You can also participate in the conversation on IRC or with us on the Zoom meeting. Please read below for the event details, including local time, joining links and do let us know if you have any questions. Thank you! Amir == Details == # Event: Language Showcase #5 # When: May 27, 2020 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200527T1300 ) # Where: Join Zoom Meeting https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97081030000 Meeting ID: 970 8103 0000 IRC - #wikimedia-office (on Freenode) # Agenda: The latest design research about the upcoming section translation feature for Content Translation. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education ------------------------------ End of Education Digest, Vol 108, Issue 7 ***************************************** -- Michael Graaf, M.I.T.(UCT) Researcher, Editor & Community Informatics Practitioner Mob +27795487242 WhatsApp +27647754342 ORCID 0000-0002-1951-5739

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Fwd: South Africa's Wikipedias
by Michael Graaf 21 May '20

21 May '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Graaf <graaf.michael(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:40 PM Subject: South Africa's Wikipedias To: <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, I hereby share my dissertation on the above topic in the hope that it may be of interest: https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/31291/thesis_sci_2019_graaf_m… Best regards, -- Michael Graaf, M.I.T.(UCT) Researcher, Editor & Community Informatics Practitioner Mob +27795487242 WhatsApp +27647754342 ORCID 0000-0002-1951-5739 -- Michael Graaf, M.I.T.(UCT) Researcher, Editor & Community Informatics Practitioner Mob +27795487242 WhatsApp +27647754342 ORCID 0000-0002-1951-5739

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