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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司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
Thanks Peter,
let's always remember that "those who cannot or will not edit" for now
includes the majority of individual (as opposed to majority of
usage-incident) Wikipedia users who a) struggle with connectivity and b)
are probably non-hegemonic-language speakers even though they accept that
hegemonic-language WPs (currently English, French, German, Arabic, Spanish,
Mandarin) have the most useful reference resources.
That said, we do have a duty of care to emphasise that static/offline wikis
are a compromise and that editing by all should be a default position. Note
that offline resources offered by Kiwix can include WikiFundi which *is*
editable, although the issue of version control is thereby complicated.
Regards,
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> I am not an expert, but from what I understand it looks like a good thing
> for those who cannot or will not edit. It will not help build the
> encyclopaedias, but at least could make what exists more accessible.
> Cheers,
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> Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Fwd: Offline-l Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10
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> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> I'm sharing with all of you a digest email from the "offline-l list" to
> which I subscribe since I believe it has two items of wider interest than
> the usual ones on that list.
>
> The first one concerns a new facility called Open ZIMfarm which automates
> the curation of offline archives of web material (not just wikis). I
> believe this is bringing a step-change in the possibilities of
> decentralised content hosting.
>
> The second describes the recent deployment of the Kiwix-serve application
> in a commercial telecoms network in West Africa (Kiwix stores and presents
> the very same ZIM files created by ZIMfarm). Given that the Wikimedia
> Foundation no longer funds zero-rating of its products, this represents a
> new way to bring content to people free of charge. Not only cellular
> networks but local-government-supported WiFi providers such as Project
> Isizwe as well as community-owned and -operated networks can do this.
>
> I will be interested to know the feelings of the community on these.
>
> Regards,
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
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> 1. Re: [KIWIX] Our openZIM farm... (Samuel Klein)
> 2. Re: [KIWIX] Our openZIM farm... (Emmanuel Engelhart)
> 3. [AAR] Interesting online/offline use case across West Africa
> (Stephane Coillet-Matillon)
> 4. Re: [AAR] Interesting online/offline use case across West
> Africa (Federico Leva (Nemo))
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:09:04 -0400
> From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
> To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline
> <offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] Our openZIM farm...
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> Wow, this is fabulous. If a new zimfarm starts up, can it coordinate with
> existing ones?
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 3:23 AM Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > There is a topic I wanted to talk about here for a long time and for
> > which I never have achieved to take the time to write something. A few
> > recent events have been a healthy remember that I should present one our
> > most recent and most useful tool: Zimfarm.
> >
> > The Zimfarm is the online tool which is in charge of building and
> > publishing all our ZIM files. After years of creating ZIM files by
> > launching scrapers more or less manually, we had to automatise the
> > process to just be able to scale the operations, ie. publishing more and
> > more often ZIM files.
> >
> > The effort started 3 years ago with the support of the WMF but we use it
> > only since Spring 2019 in production. The tool is now perfectly running
> > and we fully rely on it now. If we can publish an update of all our
> > wikis one time a month, this is thanks to this piece of software too.
> >
> > The Zimfarm is a half-decentralized solution which has a central node
> > (called "dispatcher") in charge of orchestrating the work to do and
> > multiple decentralized nodes (called "workers") which run the scraping
> > tasks.
> >
> > The dispatcher provides an API to manage the ZIM recipes and tasks, have
> > a look to https://api.farm.openzim.org/. We have setup a Web frontend on
> > this API to allow easy mgmt through a Web browser. For a better
> > transparency, even anonymous users can have a look and monitor what is
> > going on. Look at https://farm.openzim.org/.
> >
> > One important point is that, like all the rest of our infrastructure,
> > the whole system is Dockerized. Which means, this is really easy to
> > install a Zimfarm worker and we invite anybody having a spare server to
> > help us to provide offline snapshots of the best of the Web. The
> > procedure is documented and a few volunteers have already joined in.
> > Look at https://farm.openzim.org/about for more details.
> >
> > The development is fully transparent at
> > https://github.com/openzim/zimfarm. We have a few things which are on
> > the roadmap which would welcome volunteer Python developers. Look at the
> > good first issues and make your first PR!
> >
> >
>
> https://github.com/openzim/zimfarm/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%2…
> >
> > Regards
> > Emmanuel
> >
> > --
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>
I take the liberty of forwarding this message to this list, as I think it is pertinent.
Regards,
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Wikivoyage-l [mailto:wikivoyage-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sent: 23 June 2020 20:56
To: Wikimedia textbook discussion; Mailing list for Wikiversity; Wikinews mailing list; Wikivoyage Mailing List; Mailing list for the Wikiquote projects
Subject: [Wikivoyage-l] Community open letter on renaming Wikimedia
[To all Wikimedia projects, minus mailing lists with an active
discussion already.]
On August 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees may decide a
rename to "Wikipedia Foundation" and various other things.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Boar…>
Following a community meeting, a proposed open letter was written:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_open_letter_on_renaming>
«We ask the Wikimedia Foundation to pause or stop its current movement
renaming activities, due to persistent shortcomings in the current
rebranding process. Future work should be restarted only in a way that
ensures equitable decision-making.»
(Sorry for the crossposting. When replying, be mindful of cc. Do
consider forwarding to language-specific discussion venues with a short
translated introduction, or translate the pages on Meta.)
Cheers,
Federico aka Nemo
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Dear Wikimedians,
I'm sharing with all of you a digest email from the "offline-l list" to
which I subscribe since I believe it has two items of wider interest than
the usual ones on that list.
The first one concerns a new facility called Open ZIMfarm which automates
the curation of offline archives of web material (not just wikis). I
believe this is bringing a step-change in the possibilities of
decentralised content hosting.
The second describes the recent deployment of the Kiwix-serve application
in a commercial telecoms network in West Africa (Kiwix stores and presents
the very same ZIM files created by ZIMfarm). Given that the Wikimedia
Foundation no longer funds zero-rating of its products, this represents a
new way to bring content to people free of charge. Not only cellular
networks but local-government-supported WiFi providers such as Project
Isizwe as well as community-owned and -operated networks can do this.
I will be interested to know the feelings of the community on these.
Regards,
---------- Forwarded message ---------
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Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 6:01 PM
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: [KIWIX] Our openZIM farm... (Samuel Klein)
2. Re: [KIWIX] Our openZIM farm... (Emmanuel Engelhart)
3. [AAR] Interesting online/offline use case across West Africa
(Stephane Coillet-Matillon)
4. Re: [AAR] Interesting online/offline use case across West
Africa (Federico Leva (Nemo))
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:09:04 -0400
From: Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Offline-l] [KIWIX] Our openZIM farm...
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Wow, this is fabulous. If a new zimfarm starts up, can it coordinate with
existing ones?
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 3:23 AM Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> There is a topic I wanted to talk about here for a long time and for
> which I never have achieved to take the time to write something. A few
> recent events have been a healthy remember that I should present one our
> most recent and most useful tool: Zimfarm.
>
> The Zimfarm is the online tool which is in charge of building and
> publishing all our ZIM files. After years of creating ZIM files by
> launching scrapers more or less manually, we had to automatise the
> process to just be able to scale the operations, ie. publishing more and
> more often ZIM files.
>
> The effort started 3 years ago with the support of the WMF but we use it
> only since Spring 2019 in production. The tool is now perfectly running
> and we fully rely on it now. If we can publish an update of all our
> wikis one time a month, this is thanks to this piece of software too.
>
> The Zimfarm is a half-decentralized solution which has a central node
> (called "dispatcher") in charge of orchestrating the work to do and
> multiple decentralized nodes (called "workers") which run the scraping
> tasks.
>
> The dispatcher provides an API to manage the ZIM recipes and tasks, have
> a look to https://api.farm.openzim.org/. We have setup a Web frontend on
> this API to allow easy mgmt through a Web browser. For a better
> transparency, even anonymous users can have a look and monitor what is
> going on. Look at https://farm.openzim.org/.
>
> One important point is that, like all the rest of our infrastructure,
> the whole system is Dockerized. Which means, this is really easy to
> install a Zimfarm worker and we invite anybody having a spare server to
> help us to provide offline snapshots of the best of the Web. The
> procedure is documented and a few volunteers have already joined in.
> Look at https://farm.openzim.org/about for more details.
>
> The development is fully transparent at
> https://github.com/openzim/zimfarm. We have a few things which are on
> the roadmap which would welcome volunteer Python developers. Look at the
> good first issues and make your first PR!
>
>
https://github.com/openzim/zimfarm/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%2…
>
> Regards
> Emmanuel
>
> --
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> * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
> * Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/
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Dear all,
Anyone interested in joining me for further discussions here?
Regards,
Bobby Shabangu
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Kastner, Stefanie <Stefanie.Kastner(a)goethe.de>
Date: Mon, Jun 22, 2020, 16:04
Subject: Hack your Culture and Wikipedia
To: Bobby Shabangu <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Kgolo Lekoma <kgolo.lekoma(a)credipple.com>, Lethabo Sekhu <
lethabo.sekhu(a)credipple.com>
Dear Bobby,
I hope this message finds you well!
Besides “Decolonise the Internet” we are preparing at the moment a second
project that could be interesting for you.
The Goethe-Institut South Africa
<https://www.google.com/maps/search/South+Africa+%0D%0A+Johannesburg+%0D%0A+…>
wants to organize a *cultural hackathon* under the title “Hack your
Culture” in September/October 2020. This cultural hackathon in
collaboration with different African partner institutions is based on the
idea of the project “Coding da Vinci” (https://codingdavinci.de/about/*)*
With its launch in Berlin, in 2014, *Coding da Vinci* has grown to become a
well-established part of the open cultural data landscape.
The long-term mission of *Coding da Vinci* is to create lasting structures
within which cultural institutions and interested sectors of *civil society*
can work together through *open data*.
What kind of *creative possibilities* can be realized if digitalized
cultural data is made freely available and reusable?
Digital accessibility of artifacts has the effect of changing the
relationship between cultural institutions and culturally interested
people: if the digital counterparts of physical originals can be copied, if
they can be modified, edited, and made available everywhere through the
internet, the visitor is empowered and can actively participate in the
creation of culture. Rather than just consuming knowledge, they have the
possibility to spread, enrich, re-contextualize, and work with it in order
to create new knowledge.
What could be your part in this?
We would like to ask if Wikimedia South Africa would be interested to
collaborate in the cultural hackathon we are organizing. Would you be
interested in providing us with open data, metadata or any other content
from your institution that is placed under an open license?
The data will then be used during a Hackathon - an event where participants
have a specific amount of time to develop *software applications or
visualizations with open data*.
We would be very happy to talk to you for further information! Would you
maybe be available during the week from 29th June on? If yes what day and
time would suit you best?
Best,
Stefanie
------------------------------------------------------------
Stefanie Kastner
Leiterin Information mit Regionalauftrag
Head of Information Services Sub-Saharan Africa
Library – Gamebox - Hub
Goethe-Institut South Africa
Johannesburg
119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood 2193
+27 11 5372949
stefanie.kastner(a)goethe.de
www.goethe.de/johannesburg
Twitter: @goethejoburg
Facebook: goethe.joburg
Hello everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking to change the name of the movement. A
survey has been underway for some time now to get feedback on this proposed
name change. A proposal that is proving to be controversial with the
volunteer community. You can fill in the feedback survey at the link below.
I encourage people to give their feedback through this survey on the
proposed name change.
It could have some real impact on us as a chapter as depending on the name
change and way in which it is done we, Wikimedia South Africa, might also
have to change our name as well along with all other chapters and
affiliates. Possibly to Wikipedia South Africa. However it seems as though
it is most likely that we will be allowed to choose to keep or change our
names when we like at any point in the future.
We have two weeks before a final decision is made.
To learn more please check out the presentation on the name change given by
the Wikimedia Foundation here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
You can participate in the survey here:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9G2dN7P0T7gPqpD
Regards,
Douglas.
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司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
Good morning everyone
As you may or may not know, Wikimedia is busy with a project to potentially
rebrand.
We now have the opportunity to give feedback on the project as it stands
right now.
However, in order to streamline the process, I've been asked to complete
the feedback on behalf of the ZA Chapter.
So.. please see the latest presentation
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3zlBGHHHiY> and accompanying slidedeck.
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iLC7VYew1anjoIfV025hCVJFWmC0VdbJ3Qi…>
If
you're familiar with the previous phases of the project feel free to skip
to the middle of the video.
If you need more information, the background on the project is here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…>
.
I have two weeks from today to complete the survey, and will appreciate any
feedback by next Wednesday.
Kind regards
Adri Baard
Boardmember
Hello everyone,
The first of two Wikipedia clinic events will be held at 7:30pm (SA time)
today. The events are being held to " better support members of the
community during this time, the Community Development team at the Wikimedia
Foundation is interested in trying an experiment: scheduling open video
calls (using Google Meet) where any active Wikimedian would be welcome to
attend and ask questions or ask for advice about whatever Wikimedia-related
goal or problem they're working on. You can also just share what you're
working on and invite feedback, even if you don't have a specific question.
Or people can just connect to hang out, or to offer their own experience to
the people asking questions."
Details are below:
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 09:13
Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] NEW: Wikimedia Clinic calls, starting
June 15th
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <
african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Reminder: the Wikimedia Clinic calls experiment is about to begin. The
first calls are scheduled for:
- Monday, June 15th, 17:30 (5:30pm) UTC, and this is the Google Meet link
<https://meet.google.com/kha-nghc-mky>. Link to a WorldTimeBuddy event
for timezone convenience
<https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/event?lid=100&h=100&sts=26536320&sln=17.5-19…>
.
- Wednesday, June 17th, 08:00am UTC, and this is the Google Meet link
<https://meet.google.com/iex-jebd-due>. Link to a WorldTimeBuddy event
for timezone convenience
<https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/event?lid=100&h=100&sts=26539200&sln=8-10&a=…>
.
Remember, there's no set agenda and no particular preparation needed. Feel
free to join us with anything *Wikimedia-related* you'd like to ask, or get
feedback on, or just to hang out.
A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:51 AM Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
> Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
>
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:28 AM
> Subject: NEW: Wikimedia Clinic calls, starting June 15th
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> In these complex times of pandemic, and the coming complex times of
> post-pandemic, live human contact with fellow Wikimedians, even mediated
> through a video call, can be helpful, relaxing, and fun. It can also offer
> opportunities to ask questions you have been meaning to ask but never got
> around to, or to explain complex situations that may be hard to articulate
> in writing.
>
> To better support members of the community during this time, the Community
> Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is interested in trying an
> experiment: scheduling open video calls (using Google Meet) where any
> active Wikimedian would be welcome to attend and ask questions or ask for
> advice about whatever Wikimedia-related goal or problem they're working on.
>
> You can also just share what you're working on and invite feedback, even
> if you don't have a specific question. Or people can just connect to hang
> out, or to offer their own experience to the people asking questions.
>
> We are thinking of calling these calls Wikimedia Clinics, and would host
> them once a week (in alternating time zones, to accommodate as many people
> as possible).
>
> Each clinic session:
>
> * would be 70-120 minutes in length depending on topics presented and
> volume of conversation
> * would have at least two Wikimedia Foundation staff members guaranteed to
> be present. They are not guaranteed to have the answers you need, but they
> are committed to helping you get them, even if not during the call itself,
> but as later follow-up.
> * would be summarized in an in-depth *digest* of the call that would be
> edited for clarity and available to all volunteers interested. These notes
> would link to any tools and resources mentioned on the call and will be
> shared on this mailing list and archived on Meta[0].
>
> These calls are *not* replacing any existing channels or
> regularly-scheduled calls! Every channel or call you are already using
> continues to exist. No important announcements will be made on these
> calls, and no one should feel stressed or obligated to attend them.
>
> Rather, they are a new form of live-communication open support calls, less
> narrow in focus than some of the existing channels (where only specific
> topics are expected), and, we hope, more approachable and welcoming for
> people not sure whether their question or dilemma is appropriate for one of
> the other channels.
>
> If these calls are found useful, we'll try to offer them in some other
> languages, to increase access to those not comfortable speaking English.
>
> So, let's give this a try! The first two calls are scheduled for:
>
> Monday, June 15th, 17:30 (5:30pm) UTC, and this is the Google Meet link[1].
> Link to a WorldTimeBuddy event for timezone convenience[2].
>
> and
>
> Wednesday, June 17th, 08:00am UTC, and this is the Google Meet link[3].
> Link to a WorldTimeBuddy event for timezone convenience[4].
>
> Remember, there's no set agenda and no particular preparation needed.
> Feel free to join us with anything Wikimedia-related that's on your mind,
> or just to hang out.
>
> Feedback and questions welcome.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Asaf
>
> [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics
> [1] https://meet.google.com/kha-nghc-mky
> [2]
> https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/event?lid=100&h=100&sts=26536320&sln=17.5-19…
> [3] https://meet.google.com/iex-jebd-due
> [4]
> https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/event?lid=100&h=100&sts=26539200&sln=8-10&a=…
>
>
> Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
>
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
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Dear ZA-Wikimedians,
Since some of us are sure to be confronted by this type of thing out in the
wider community, I propose that it's better to have discussed it among
ourselves first; the reason I'm presenting it via a tweet of mine is to
display the stance that I have publicly adopted:
https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelgraaf/status/1271786176823939073
Regards,
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Michael Graaf, M.I.T.(UCT)
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Informatics Practitioner
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