Hello everyone,
Wikimedia South Africa is currently in the process of applying for observer
status with the World Interlectual Property Organisation (WIPO) so we can
better support our broader free knowledge advocacy efforts of other
Wikimedia affiliates and organisations.
WIPO has gotten back to us with a request for our membership roster. I
assume this is so they can check if we are a legitimate non-profit
membership organisation. If you are a chapter member and are not
comfortable with us sharing your name as a chapter member then people let
us know so we can redact your name from the membership roster we will share
with them.
I do not want to share anyone's details with a third party if they are not
comfortable with that. I will *not* be sharing any contact details with
them (only names) as I don't see that being relevant to them or our
application.
I have asked Shupai to contact our members individually if you have any
objections. Please let us know by the end of this month.
Best regards,
Douglas.
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Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
Dear Wikimedians,
here's something that was inspired by one of the Swedish Wikidata activists
(Jan Ainali) recently addressing African wikimedians on Twitter about a
certain funding deadline that was looming. It was too close for me to feel
able to respond, but I noted it as something that should be done at some
stage.
WikiProject Govdirectory
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory> aims to
promote govdirectory.org <https://www.govdirectory.org/> to become a global
user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence by
utilizing Wikidata. I had a look at the South Africa section and a lot of
it is still blank. We as a chapter could address this. I don't think paying
people to migrate content from websites etc. into Wikidata would contravene
the taboo against paid editing, since it's just data transfer. What do
others think?
Regards,
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> Hello everyone
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> I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note for
> everyone.
>
> WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project
> ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
>
> I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of
> projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like
> to run and manage.
>
> Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you all.
>
> Kind regards
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> Shupai Mchuchu
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:52:23 +0200
> From: "Peter Southwood" <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>
> Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Re: Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist
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> Hi Shupai,
> Is there a wiki site for this?
> Cheers,
> Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shupai Mchuchu [mailto:shupai@wikimedia.org.za]
> Sent: 18 January 2022 14:57
> To: wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist
>
> Hello everyone
>
> I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note for
> everyone.
>
> WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project
> ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
>
> I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of
> projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like
> to run and manage.
>
> Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you all.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> Shupai Mchuchu
>
> Chapter Administrator
>
> Wikimedia South Africa NPC.
> 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
>
> Office +27 (021) 565 0143
>
> Reg. No. 2012/038827/08
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> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:01:39 +0200
> From: Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Re: Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist
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> Hi Peter,
>
> Not yet but now might be a good time to set one up on meta wiki.
>
> Regards,
>
> Douglas
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 17:52, Peter Southwood <
> peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Shupai,
> > Is there a wiki site for this?
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shupai Mchuchu [mailto:shupai@wikimedia.org.za]
> > Sent: 18 January 2022 14:57
> > To: wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist
> >
> > Hello everyone
> >
> > I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note
> for
> > everyone.
> >
> > WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project
> > ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
> >
> > I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of
> > projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like
> > to run and manage.
> >
> > Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing from you all.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >
> > Shupai Mchuchu
> >
> > Chapter Administrator
> >
> > Wikimedia South Africa NPC.
> > 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
> >
> > Office +27 (021) 565 0143
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Hello everyone
I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note for
everyone.
WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project
ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of
projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like
to run and manage.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC.
6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
Reg. No. 2012/038827/08
Dear all
I hope this email finds you well. Wikimedia Foundation is preparing their
fundraising campaign in May, and are organizing a small focus of 6-8 folks
total.
The purpose of this focus group is to gather insights and source ideas from
folks with a knowledge of South African culture in order to improve their
fundraising campaign. The focus group consists of an open discussion
prompted by open-ended questions. They will discuss and share opinions on
Wikipedia, fundraising, non-profit organizations, and South African
culture. It would require absolutely *no* preparation on the participants’
parts-- just personal opinions and organic, open discussion.
* if there is anyone who would be interested and available to participate?
It's scheduled for February 16th, at 2:30pm GMT for 75 minutes.*
Please let Camille de Nes know she would be very grateful for your
participation, and she will send you the Google Meets invite.
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC.
6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
Reg. No. 2012/038827/08