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Invitation to East and Southern African Movement Strategy Grants Conversation hour
by Sam Oyeyele 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Dear Wikimedians, We have been planning for the past four years the future of the Wikimedia movement, it is now time to build this future together! Movement Strategy grant is now available to support you. The Movement Strategy and Governance team is organising Movement Strategy grant conversations for communities to discuss the Movement Strategy grants and help volunteers refine their ideas. Join us for the East and Southern African Movement Strategy Grants Conversation hour which is scheduled to take place on *December 3, 2021 at 4:00 pm UTC*. Here's the link to join the call on the day: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87879449189?pwd=bDJTYmR5VDF4aUlLNkhmSjE0N0p6UT09 Come let's discuss problems, brainstorm solutions and help you refine brilliant ideas which will solve problems within your communities. Kindly, Sam. -- Sam Oyeyele Facilitator, Movement Strategy & Governance Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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South African Meetup 13: 27 August November 2021
by Shupai Mchuchu 25 Nov '21

25 Nov '21

Hello everyone This email serves as a quick kind reminder about an upcoming meetup for the South African community that will be happening on Saturday the 27th of November 2021. Below are the details for joining the 13th online South African community meetup. If you have any questions about Wikipedia, the community, what is going on generally, or you just want to hang out you are welcome to join and participate. Date: Saturday, 27 November 2021 Start time: 10:00 AM SAST End Time: 12:00 PM SAST Location: Online Meeting We will still be trying out our new Discord channel as our meeting location this time (see link below). If that does not work for you then don't worry, you can still join via Zulip at the link below for a more text-based experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_13 Link to join: https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com/# (note: registration is necessary) 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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South African Meetup 13: 27 August November 2021
by Shupai Mchuchu 16 Nov '21

16 Nov '21

Hello everyone We have an upcoming meetup for the South African community that will be happening on Saturday the 27th of November 2021. Below are the details for joining the 13th online South African community meetup. If you have any questions about Wikipedia, the community, what is going on generally, or you just want to hang out you are welcome to join and participate. Date: Saturday, 27 November 2021 Start time: 10:00 AM SAST End Time: 12:00 PM SAST Location: Online Meeting We will still be trying out our new Discord channel as our meeting location this time (see link below). If that does not work for you then don't worry, you can still join via Zulip at the link below for a more text based experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_13 Link to join: https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com/# (note: registration is necessary) 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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Kind request for support for AfroCuration South Africa event
by Shupai Mchuchu 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Hello Everyone I hope this email finds you well. This email serves as a quick reminder about the upcoming AfroCuration South Africa event. A founding member of @wikimediaigbo and also a Wikipedian in Residence at Moleskine Foundation working on the WikiAfrica Education project Tochi Precious, Tochi Precious pioneered the last AfroCuration on 4th and 5th September in Mozambique where she worked with the WMF Language Team to get the Makhuwa language Wikipedia into the incubator. They had over 70 participants and have created over 120 articles since then. She wants to run his next program in S.A, with Constitution Hill and Harambee on the 26th and 27th of October. I am writing this email to find out if there are any volunteers who would like to partake and volunteer with their time on this project. This project will train new editors to edit our language Wikipedia, and also mentor them to become part of our user group and also knowledge contributors in our language on Wiki. Please feel free to let me know your user names so I can put them forward for the event. 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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October Wiki Meetup
by Douglas Scott 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Hello everyone, This is just to let you all know that we will be having our 12th Wikipedia community meetup (digitally of course) on *Saturday, October 30, 2021 from 10:00 to 12:00*. At the usual time but at a different online location. This time we will be experimenting with using our new Discord server and host the digital meetup on that. I will still be on Zulip as well just in case anyone has trouble with joining via Discord. Please see the event link for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_12 Best regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Fwd: The Wikipedia Library: Search feature now available!
by Douglas Scott 08 Oct '21

08 Oct '21

Hello everyone, Below is an email from the Wikipedia library team. They have been working on making it easier to edit Wikipedia by giving editors access to resources that will help with citations. So if you are writing or expanding a Wikipedia article and need access to academic sources you can check this tool out to help you find what you are looking for. Regards, Douglas. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Wikipedia Library Card Platform <noreply(a)wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 at 19:28 Subject: The Wikipedia Library: Search feature now available! To: <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com> Hi, The Wikipedia Library team is excited to announce that a centralized search tool is now available to all users eligible to use the library! Instead of needing to search across individual collections one-by-one, you’ll now be able to search content from across a wide range of collections from one search bar. This search tool uses the EBSCO Discovery Service software and contains a wide array of filtering and advanced search options. To check which collections are indexed, we’ve also added icons and filters to My Library. Search pulls content from almost all of the collections which are accessible by default for eligible users (the Library Bundle). This means you can search with the confidence that every result will be accessible to you. In the future, we plan to enable users to turn off this limit, so that you could also search across collections which require individual applications, but we can’t guarantee that you’ll be able to access all results in this mode, as this depends on your individual authorizations. To check out the search tool just head over to https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/, log in, and you’ll find the search bar at the top of your screen. We hope you find this feature useful, and would love to hear your feedback at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Library_Card_platform/Search. Finally, as a reminder, we’re planning to start rolling out an on-wiki notification to editors who are eligible to use the library in the near future. Users will only receive the notification once. Please check https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&group=ext… to see if you can help translate the notification text! Thanks, The Wikipedia Library team wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Universal Code of Conduct Draft Enforcement Guidelines review still needs your ideas and opinions
by Sam Oyeyele 06 Oct '21

06 Oct '21

Hello everyone, This is just a reminder that the Universal Code of Conduct Draft Enforcement Guidelines are still open for review and comment.[1] The Drafting Committee will start working on revisions and improvement* in less than two weeks (October 17)*, so it is important that you give them your ideas and opinions soon! There is now a short, simple version of the Draft Guidelines here to make your review easier.[2] If possible, also help translate the short version into more languages! We will also hold one last conversation hour on October 15, 2021 03:00 and 14:00 UTC.[3] On behalf of the Drafting Committee, much thanks to everyone who has given ideas so far. We hope to hear from more of you - the Guidelines will be much stronger if more opinions are included. Kindly, Sam. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc… -- Sam Oyeyele Facilitator, Movement Strategy & Governance Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Kind request for support for AfroCuration South Africa event
by Shupai Mchuchu 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Hello Everyone I hope this email finds you well. A founding member of @wikimediaigbo and also a Wikipedian in Residence at Moleskine Foundation working on the WikiAfrica Education project Tochi Precious, Tochi Precious pioneered the last AfroCuration on 4th and 5th September in Mozambique where he worked with the WMF Language Team to get the Makhuwa language Wikipedia into the incubator. They had over 70 participants and have created over 120 articles since then. He wants to run his next program in S.A, with Constitution Hill and Harambee on the 26th and 27th of October. I am writing this email to find out if there are any volunteers who would like to partake and volunteer with their time on this project. This project will train new editors to edit our language Wikipedia, and also mentor them to become part of our user group and also knowledge contributors in our language on Wiki. Please feel free to let me know your user names so I can put them forward for the event. 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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Re: Kind request for support for AfroCuration South Africa event
by unathi ndiki 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

Thank you so much My WhatsApp number is 0825418794 On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, 14:36 Tochi Precious, <tochiprecious2(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Unathi > Thanks a lot for your interest in volunteering for the project. > > The event will take place on the 26th and 27th of October in partnership > with Constitution Hill and Harambee. > > I would be creating a WhatsApp group shortly where we'll share the way > forward and I'll be sharing the link for you to join. > > Thanks again > Tochi Precious > Co-founder: Igbo Wikimedians User Group > Wikipedian in Residence: Moleskine Foundation > Founder: Smarter Language Hub > > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 10:14 AM unathi ndiki <undiki52(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Good morning >> >> My name is Unathi Ndiki, I am very interested to participate in the event. >> Kind regards >> Unathi Ndiki >> >> On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, 10:48 sisinkabinde, <sisinkabinde(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> GooddayMy name is Sisi Nkabinde I am very interested to be a volunteer >>> for the projectPlease let me know what the next step is.RegardsSisi >>> Nkabinde Sent from Samsung tablet. >>> -------- Original message --------From: Shupai Mchuchu < >>> shupai(a)wikimedia.org.za> Date: 2021/09/30 08:26 (GMT+02:00) To: >>> wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: tochiprecious2(a)gmail.com Subject: >>> [Wikimedia ZA] Kind request for support for AfroCuration South Africa event >>> Hello EveryoneI hope this email finds you well. A founding member of >>> @wikimediaigbo andalso a Wikipedian in Residence at Moleskine Foundation >>> working on theWikiAfrica Education project Tochi Precious,Tochi Precious >>> pioneered the last AfroCuration on 4th and 5th September inMozambique where >>> he worked with the WMF Language Team to get the Makhuwalanguage Wikipedia >>> into the incubator. They had over 70 participants andhave created over 120 >>> articles since then.He wants to run his next program in S.A, with >>> Constitution Hill andHarambee on the 26th and 27th of October.I am writing >>> this email to find out if there are any volunteers who wouldlike to partake >>> and volunteer with their time on this project. This projectwill train new >>> editors to edit our language Wikipedia, and also mentor themto become part >>> of our user group and also knowledge contributors in ourlanguage on >>> Wiki.Please feel free to let me know your user names so I can put them >>> forwardfor the event.Kind regardsShupai MchuchuChapter >>> AdministratorWikimedia South Africa NPC.6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South >>> AfricaOffice +27 (021) 565 0143Reg. No. >>> 2012/038827/08_______________________________________________WikimediaZA >>> mailing list -- wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.orgTo unsubscribe send an >>> email to wikimediaza-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.orgTo unsubscribe, send an >>> email to %(real_name)s-unsubscribe@%(host_name)s >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikimediaZA mailing list -- wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaza-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> To unsubscribe, send an email to %(real_name)s-unsubscribe@%(host_name)s >> >>

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Final reminder: Wikimedia South Africa Annual General Meeting
by Douglas Scott 24 Sep '21

24 Sep '21

Hello everyone, This is a final reminder of the Wikimedia South Africa AGM that will be taking place tomorrow. You can find out more details about the event (including links to the annual report and AGM agenda) on the event page here <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/2021-AGM>. See details below about start times and how to join: *Date*: 25 September 2021*Time*: 10:00 to 13:00 + 1 hour lunch intermission -> 14:00 return for board elections*Location*: On your computer via Zoom, please register to join <https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87065558984?pwd=LzVUckI5Sm91U08vMDB5Uk5QYkdTQT09> The event will start at 10am with an introduction to the Wikimedia Foundation's new CEO, Maryana Iskander, who will likely be attending for that first hour. This will give her an opportunity to learn from us about the Wikipedia community and project before she starts in her new role and it will give us an opportunity to get to know her better. The WMF will then give a 30 min presentation to use on their outreach strategy for Africa which they hope we can play a significant role in. After that at around 11:30am we will start with normal AGM items. There will be an intermission for lunch at 13:00 and we will resume the AGM at 14:00 to finish up with board elections and appointments (and any other unfinished business). Hope to see you all there. Regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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