Good morning Chapter Members,
The Wiki Loves AfroLiterature Competition 2025 is due to begin on 1 November 2025.
This is a final reminder that the call for volunteers to be part of the core organising committee closes on 29 October 2025 at 12:00pm (SAST).
Interested members should please take a few minutes to show your expression of interest via the google form provided in the link below:
https://forms.gle/42NA9sz7qNorkckV6
Volunteers will be contacted via email thereafter for a discussion around key roles and responsibilities pertaining to the Wiki Loves AfroLiterature Competition.
We look forward to your participation.
Best Regards
Wikimedia South Africa
Good morning Chapter Members,
The Wiki Science Photographic Competition is due to begin in November 2025.
This is a final reminder that the call for volunteers to be part of the core organising committee closes on 29 October 2025 at 12:00pm (SAST).
Interested members should please take a few minutes to show your expression of interest via the google form provided in the link below:
https://forms.gle/yzsTdZFwohNWDvid6
Volunteers will be contacted via email thereafter for a discussion around key roles and responsibilities pertaining to the Wiki Science Competition.
We look forward to your participation.
Best Regards
Wikimedia South Africa
Good morning Chapter members,
Please find the details pertaining to an upcoming training session below.
Interested members may register via the link provided.
Best Regards
- Martin Emanuel (WMZA)
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Dear all,
On behalf of the *Wiki Loves Women team*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Women/Team,
I’m delighted to invite you to a *training session on how to write an
article on Diff* to document the beautiful stories from your local #SheSaid
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid…
events.
- *Date:* 23rd October
- *Time:* 4 PM UTC
- *To register*, please click here https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#
We look forward to seeing you there and sharing inspiring stories from
across the SheSaid community!
Warm regards,
*Afek**Wiki Loves Women Team*
Good afternoon Chapter members,
Wikimedia_ZA will be holding an Operational Meeting tomorrow, 21/10/2025 at 19:00 (SAST).
Here, we will provide feedback and updates to chapter members, and the general public, on our ongoing projects, as well as on upcoming initiatives.
All members are welcome to join this session. Links to the meeting and the agenda are provided below:
Wikimedia ZA 2025 Operations Meeting
Tuesday, October 21 · 7:00 – 8:00pm
Time zone: Africa/Johannesburg
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/rdb-xmmj-opv
Or dial: (ZA) +27 10 823 0554 PIN: 844 680 323#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/rdb-xmmj-opv?pin=7895322784704
Agenda:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oy9sX6wc_fhb61_bVIA8RnfdjZhSNMnTNdSKAGf…
We hope to see you there.
- Martin Emanuel
Good day Chapter Members,
Wikimedia South Africa is glad to announce its participation in the Wiki Loves AfroLiterature Competition in 2025. The competition will run from 1 November 2025 to 15 December 2025.
In preparation for the competition, we are opening a call for volunteers who are passionate about African Literature, to join the Wiki Loves AfroLiterature (South Africa) core organising committee.
Members who have keen interest in this event should please take a few minutes to show your expression of interest via the google form provided in the link below:
https://forms.gle/42NA9sz7qNorkckV6
The deadline for expression of interest is 29 October 2025 at 12:00pm (SAST).
Volunteers will be contacted via email thereafter for a discussion around key roles and responsibilities pertaining to the Wiki Loves AfroLiterature Competition.
We look forward to your participation.
Best Regards
Wikimedia South Africa
Good day Chapter Members,
Wikimedia South Africa is glad to announce the third iteration of the Wiki Science South Africa Photographic Competition in 2025. The competition will run from 1 November 2025 to 15 December 2025.
In preparation for the competition, we are opening a call for volunteers who are passionate about science and photography to join the Wiki Science South Africa core organising committee.
Members who are keen to be part of the organising committee, should please take a few minutes to show your expression of interest via the google form provided in the link below:
https://forms.gle/yzsTdZFwohNWDvid6
The deadline for expression of interest is 29 October 2025 at 12:00pm (SAST).
Volunteers will be contacted via email thereafter for a discussion around key roles and responsibilities pertaining to the Wiki Science Competition.
We look forward to your participation.
Best Regards
Wikimedia South Africa
Good morning Chapter Members,
We will be hosting our next Chapter Meetups on Saturday, 25 October 2025.
As before, our in-person meetups will occur at the venues below:-
Johannesburg at the Goethe-Institute:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Meet-up_South_Africa/_Joh…
Cape Town at the Bootlegger (Harrington Street):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Meet-up_South_Africa/_Cap…
The Meetups will occur from 10:30am to 12:30pm at both venues.
All community members are invited to join us for coffee, a snack and fruitful discussions around WMZA activities.
Alternatively, community members may join us via Google Meets (links provided within the respective URLs above).
We hope to see you there.
Best Regards
- Martin Emanuel
Hi all, I've made a feeble effort to substantiate my hunch that Freedom of
Panorama has been updated in SA law since the version cited by the
deletionist, but haven't followed up properly.
Does anyone here know offhand?
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> Hello Keegan
>
> Thanks for the reply. Good to hear from you. I can’t speak for the CapeTown
> Heritage Foundation, but I popped into visit Dianne Steele from
> Johannesburg Heritage Foundation. She’s also a Wikipedian and she confirmed
> that the JHF are very happy with the plaques appearing on commons. She
> worked with @BobbyShabangu, who has also uploaded many of these images for
> Joburgbedia. She completed the form for three files (that I uploaded)
> indicating they are released.
>
> The text in from the form itself is not perfect. But it should be clear
> enough
>
> I agree to publish the above-mentioned work under the Creative Commons
> Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
> I acknowledge that by doing so I grant anyone the right to use the work,
> even in a commercial product or otherwise, and to modify it according to
> their needs, provided that they abide by the terms of the license and any
> other applicable laws.
> I am aware that this agreement is not limited to Wikipedia or related
> sites.
> I am aware that the copyright holder always retains ownership of the
> copyright as well as the right to be attributed in accordance with the
> license chosen. Modifications others make to the work will not be claimed
> to have been made by the copyright holder.
> I acknowledge that I cannot withdraw this agreement, and that the content
> may or may not be kept permanently on a Wikimedia project.
>
> There are a number of comments on the page itself. (I sound rather
> shrill).
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Categ…
>
> Be great to have your voice heard..
>
> Best
> Derek
>
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 at 16:24, Keegan Leech <keegankai(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for raising this Derek.
> >
> > A quick question on copyright. Does anyone know what the
> Johannesburg/Cape
> > Town Heritage Foundations would have to do to allow for pictures of the
> > plaques to be used on Wikimedia? Is it possible for them to release some
> > statement allowing for the use of these images without releasing their
> > copyright over the text on the plaques? I'm sure it would be relatively
> > easy to contact the J/CTHF and request a declaration from them.
> Something
> > posted on their websites would be fine.
> >
> > Additionally, it seems as though not all of the plaques were erected by
> > these two foundations, and so there may be more copyright holders here.
> > (E.g. this plaque seems to have been posted by the Geological Society of
> > South Africa
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GSSA_W4A_Siltstone.jpg
> > ) Can anyone can confirm who the copyright owners are?
> >
> > Unfortunately, I do believe that the text of these plaques would be
> > protected by copyright as artistic works (see copyright act:
> > https://www.saflii.org/za/legis/consol_act/ca1978133/ ). Just being
> > informational does not exempt them any more than it would exempt, say, a
> > history book. However, there are cases in which copyrighted works or
> > excerpts thereof, may appear on Wikipedia. So these images could
> > theoretically be uploaded to individual Wikipedia pages, if clearly
> > labelled as including copyrighted material. They should probably not be
> on
> > Commons under creative commons licenses (as many of them are) unless the
> > JHF or whoever the copyright holders may be have released them from
> > copyright.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Keegan
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 at 09:58, Derek Moore <weblearning(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear fellow Wikipedians.
> > >
> > > This is an odd issue, and I would appreciate your advice and support.
> > > Blue Plaques are a wonderful way to remember South African Heritage.
> Now
> > > for some reason, a Wikipedian in Canada (I think) has initiated a big
> > > deletion request of Blue plaques both in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
> See
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Categ…
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Categ…
> > >
> > > It would be good if you could make your voices heard in the discussion
> > and
> > > contest the deletion
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Kind Regards
> > > Derek
> > >
> > > *Derek Moore* (He/Him) | Lead Consultant for Weblearning
> > >
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Dear fellow Wikipedians.
This is an odd issue, and I would appreciate your advice and support.
Blue Plaques are a wonderful way to remember South African Heritage. Now
for some reason, a Wikipedian in Canada (I think) has initiated a big
deletion request of Blue plaques both in Cape Town and Johannesburg. See
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Categ…https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Categ…
It would be good if you could make your voices heard in the discussion and
contest the deletion
Thanks
Kind Regards
Derek
*Derek Moore* (He/Him) | Lead Consultant for Weblearning
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