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Climate Change edit-a-thon Wikipedia coaches: 24 Nov - 1 Dec 2020
by Douglas Scott 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let everyone know about an online edit-a-thon and coaching session that Wikimedia South Africa is helping out on. We are looking for people who are interested in participating by helping to edit Wikipedia articles and/or helping new people to Wikipedia edit Wikipedia. You can learn more about the event at its event page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_on_climat… If you are interested on coaching people then please contact Emma Baker: Emma Baker <emma(a)southsouthnorth.org> Regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Fwd: [African Wikimedians] The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
by Douglas Scott 07 Nov '20

07 Nov '20

FYI --- Forwarded message --- Greetings, Thank you very much for participating in the *Months of African Cinema* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…> global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far. It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the project main page please do so.[1] If you are an events’ coordinator who have organized an event for this edit-a-thon, also remember to list your event under the “Afrocine events” section. Please make sure to list articles you have created or improved in the article achievements <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…>’ section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked.[1] To be able to claim prizes, please also list your articles on the users by articles page.[2] We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners: - *Overall winner* - 1st - $500 - 2nd - $200 - 3rd - $100 - *Diversity winner* - $100 - *Gender-gap fillers* - $100 - *Language Winners* - up to $100 We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!! Thank you once again for being part of this global event! Regards, Ebenezer Mlay Community Liaison – Afrocine project [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri… [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri… _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Wikimedia South Africa Annual General Meeting: 28 November 2020
by Douglas Scott 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Hello everyone, This is to let you know that the Wikimedia South Africa Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be taking place on the 28 November 2020 from 10:00 with elections after a lunch time intermission. The event will be held entirely online. Details on how to join the AGM will be sent out within the next few days wherein you will be able to RSVP. Unfortunately due to uncertainties created by the COVID 19 lockdown we were unable to have the AGM in August/September as originally planned and we are unable to have it in a face-to-face environment like we usually do. On the up side hosting the event entirely online will allow you to attend the event from the comfort of your own home. A gentle reminder that only chapter members are allowed to vote on resolutions. So please remember to renew your membership <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Template:Join-Us> before the AGM so you can vote. The membership fee is financial contribution either monthly or annually of any amount. Best regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Wikimedia ZA is looking for an administrator
by Douglas Scott 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Hello everyone, Wikimedia South Africa is currently looking to procure the services of an administrator to help with the day-to-day administration of the chapter. We are looking for a sole-proprietor that can do this work for the chapter for between one or two days a week depending on the workload for that week based on a daily rate for one year. Depending on grant funding we intend to renew this position annually. Please see the attached job description for more information. Please send this on to anyone who you think might be interested. Regards, Douglas. President Wikimedia South Africa -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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"Abstract Wikipedia" etc.
by Michael Graaf 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Good day Wikimedians of ZA, I'm sharing with you some of the esoteric, behind-the-scenes yet exciting stuff happening within the Wikiverse. I believe we in SA have a particular duty to engage with it because of our situation where there are such huge imbalances between our languages and their Wikipedias (and related projects). The texts I will link to explain better than I can, some of the seemingly eccentric proposals I've previously made. Abstract Wikipedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2020-10-07> (a provisional name for a still-new project) aims among other things to improve the functionality of "voice assistants". These have the potential to make Wiki content more accessible to many people. Imagine if all South African languages had something like this. <http://techiaith.cymru/packages/macsen/?lang=en> Such apps are making their way to cheaper "smart feature phones". I'm not a web developer but understand enough of the issues involved to urge our community at large to facilitate appropriate web development processes <https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/10/developing-semantic-web/>. For example, by using Wikipedia's Content Translation tool (even when we personally have no need for it), or translating labels on Wikidata (which I suspect is one of the reasons this year's Wikimedian of the Year is from Ghana; Wikimedia Ghana has held "label-thons") we are creating metadata links that enable semantic tools to do their magic. Of course if anyone reading this *is* a web developer, we look to you to take up the baton! Best regards, -- Michael Graaf, M.Phil (UCT) Researcher, Editor & Community Informatics Practitioner Mob +27795487242 WhatsApp +27647754342 ORCID 0000-0002-1951-5739

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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Hack Ur Culture: Mentor Network
by Bobby Shabangu 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Dear All, I'm sharing this call to anyone interested. You can also reach out to me privately or any of our colleagues in copy. Best, Bobby Shabangu On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 13:30, Kgolo Lekoma <kgolo.lekoma(a)credipple.com> wrote: > Good afternoon Wikipedians > > I trust this email finds you well. > > Please advise if you would be willing to share our call for mentors to > support Hack Ur Culture with the wikipedia community. > > I have attached a short primer which outlines what expertise we are > looking for from mid to senior professionals. > > I understand that this time of year is extremely busy so we will greatly > appreciate it if anyone from the wiki community signs up to support. > > We have also updated our website > <https://www.goethe.de/prj/hyc/en/saf/cfm.html> to include this call for > mentors. > > Please let me know if you could share this call with your community. > > I look forward to hearing from you > > Kind regards > > -- > > Kgolo Lekoma > Director: Strategy > > Credipple > > M: > 074 195 1890 > E: kgolo.lekoma(a)credipple.com <kgololekoma(a)gmail.com> > <https://www.hubspot.com/@credipple> > >

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Wikipedia: 5th online community meetup
by Douglas Scott 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Hello everyone, I just want to remind everyone of the upcoming online Wikipedia community meetup for the South African community that will be happening this Saturday. Below are the details for joining the 5th online South African community meetup. If you have any questions about Wikipedia, the community, what's going on generally, or just want to hangout then you are welcome to join and participate. Event page on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_5 Date and time: *Saturday, 26 September 2020, 10:00 - 12:00* Link to join: https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com/# Please note that it is a text chat based event. All we ask is that everyone please note and respect Wikipedia's friendly space policy: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policies Regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Fwd: [Wikidata] Wikidata's 8th birthday - October 29th
by Reuben Honigwachs 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

I most likely won't be able to organise this year's WIkidata Birthday Party ('18 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday/Cape_Town_Meetup#/med…>, '19 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Seventh_Birthday/Cape_Town#/media/Fi…>) since things have become very busy for me. I'd love to see this tradition established within our chapter and there's plenty of support and resources if someone wants to take the lead on this. See Léa's email below. Thanks, Reuben ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 11:54 Subject: [Wikidata] Wikidata's 8th birthday - October 29th To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello all, As every year, the end of October is the moment where we celebrate Wikidata's anniversary <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday>, the work of the contributors and get together as a community :) Some people are already planning *birthday events* (most of them taking place online). If you're interested in organizing a meetup, live-stream, etc. feel free to have a look at the details here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise>, and to add the event into the calendar <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday>. We will run a meetup for organizers <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Connect_wit…>, we provide a digital communication kit <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Communicati…> (including a cool CC0 logo generator <https://wikidata8.bleeptrack.de/>) and you can also find information about funding <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise#Funding>. We are also running an experiment with a 24-hours call <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/24-hours_meetup> where people can join at any time that is convenient for them in their own time zone. The Wikidata birthday is also the occasion to prepare *presents*, for example new tools, scripts, improvements on an existing project, but also non-code gifts. These will be added there <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Presents>, and you can get inspired by the previous years: 2019 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Seventh_Birthday/Presents>, 2018 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday/Presents>, 2017 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fifth_Birthday/Presents>, 2016 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Fourth_Birthday/Presents>... If you have any questions regarding the Wikidata birthday and especially distributed events, feel free to contact me. Cheers, -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Fwd: [MoveCom] Wikimedia Foundation Media Report: August 26, 2020
by Douglas Scott 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Hello everyone, Here is a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation about some recent notable goings ons within the Wikipedia community. Regards, Douglas. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Adora Svitak <asvitak(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 01:34 Subject: [MoveCom] Wikimedia Foundation Media Report: August 26, 2020 To: Media Report <media-report(a)wikimedia.org> Wikimedia Foundation Media Report: August 26, 2020In today's media report, the alarming discovery that many articles in Scots Wikipedia were created by an American teenager without a solid command of the language; fifty volunteers have signed up to enrich Arabic content on Wikipedia Sept. 20-27 through a Saudi Center for Digital Content program; a teenager created a Wikipedia page about a 56-year-old camp for children with communication or social learning challenges; and much more. - August 25 Scots Wikipedia Gizmodo - Alleged Teen Brony Has Filled the Scots Wiki With Thousands of Fake Translations https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-… - "Earlier today, Reddit user Ultach wrote a fairly lengthy post about an alarming discovery. In it, they described that Scots Wikipedia has a notorious reputation for being inaccurate with regard to vocabulary and grammar. Ultach claims that Scots Wikipedia was poorly spelled English with a few Scots words thrown in here and there. Out of curiosity, they checked the Wikipedia’s edit history… and lo, apparently one person had created and edited roughly a third of Scots Wikipedia’s 60,000 or so articles." - *Related Stories:* Kaldata - Почти цялата версия на шотландската Wikipedia е написана от американски тинейджър https://www.kaldata.com/it-%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8/%D0%BF%D0%B… Enriching Arabic content on Wikipedia Al Khaleej Today - 50 volunteers register to enrich Wikipedia’s Arabic content https://alkhaleejtoday.co/saudi-arabia/5035102/50-volunteers-register-to-en… - "Fifty men and women have registered as volunteers to enriching the Arabic content in Wikipedia, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Monday. The registration comes within the volunteering work platform of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, in cooperation with “WikiDowen.” It is one of the projects of the Saudi Center for Digital Content of the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah). The volunteerism opportunity aims to enrich the Arabic content in Wikipedia by creating new articles in the encyclopedia, or developing and translating existing articles, in the historical and cultural fields, monuments, archaeology and development. These volunteers will from Sept. 20 – 27." Disability representation on Wikipedia Beaverton Valley Times - Amazing Kids: Beaverton teen is all about representation https://pamplinmedia.com/bvt/15-news/477889-386265-amazing-kids-beaverton-t… - "Camp Meadowood is a nonprofit camp in Eastern Oregon for kids ages 6 through 14 with communication or social learning challenges. After Jenell's experience there, she decided it wasn't enough to merely attend — she wanted to be part of the aiding process as well. She started by creating a Wikipedia page, explaining the history and functionality of the 56-year-old camp." Allegations of bias Stefczyk - Wikipedia tubą propagandową radykalnej lewicy? Redaktor próbował zmienić imię “Margot” na Michał – edycję cofnięto i zagrożono mu banem https://www.stefczyk.info/2020/08/25/lewicowa-wikipedia-redaktor-probowal-z… - "Is Wikipedia a leftist propaganda mouthpiece? More and more people are asking similar questions about the popular online encyclopedia, and many Internet users have considerable reservations about its objectivity. Readers of this website more and more often look in its articles to refer to leftist sources, theories or points of view, rather than to objective facts. Proof of this can be a discussion between Wikipedia editors about one of the articles devoted to the "Stop Nonsense" collective, as well as the actions of the administrators of this site in this regard." Sports Daily Record - Ex-Leeds man Eoghan Stokes asks Airdrie fans to judge him on the pitch, not his Wikipedia page https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/ex-leeds-man-eoghan-stokes-… - "“But they are looking at stats on a Wikipedia page, they are not looking at me playing football. They are not seeing a player who is playing on the left or centre midfield, they think I’m playing up front and wondering why I’m not scoring 30 goals a season. “I think Stuart knows what I’m all about, where I’m going to play and what my best position is, so I’m happy with that." Wikipedia and SEO Flipweb - Pasting your website link on Wikipedia does nothing for your SEO https://flipweb.org/pasting-your-website-link-on-wikipedia-does-nothing-for… - "Everyone wants to rank his or her page on Google. To do so, there are many types of options which are available for the owner of the website. People try various types of options to rank their page on Google. One of the recent cases were to use Wikipedia so that you can include backlinks of your website in it. Wikipedia is a wide source of information and is very popular among students. Although, Wikipedia is a very reliable source of information this cannot be used for SEO purposes. If you edit the Wikipedia page and add your website link in it then it will be of no use." - *Related Stories:* Online Marketing - Google bestätigt: Links von Wikipedia liefern keinen SEO-Mehrwert https://onlinemarketing.de/news/google-links-von-wikipedia-kein-seo-mehrwert Adora Svitak (she/hers) Communications Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Media Report" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to media-report+unsubscribe(a)wikimedia.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/msgid/media-report/CACY5e3yv06C… <https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/msgid/media-report/CACY5e3yv06C…> . _______________________________________________ MoveCom mailing list MoveCom(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/movecom -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Awareness about the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
by Bobby Shabangu 15 Aug '20

15 Aug '20

Dear everyone, The Trust and Safety team from the Wikimedia Foundation is engaged in a global campaign, working with all communities, small, medium and established, to put together a Universal Code of Conduct that will act as a set of binding guidelines for all Wikimedia projects, to project Wikimedians against harassment and bullying. They've reached out to me, to speak to you to get involved in formulating this Universal Code of Conduct. Any input is important, now matter how small it is. This will have an impact on everyone. So I would like to urge all of us to familiarise with the Universal Code of Conduct here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>, then participate here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Universal_Code_of_Conduct>. Kind regards, Bobby Shabangu On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 11:34, Antoni Mtavangu <amtavangu-ctr(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Bobby, > > I hope you are fine! > > This is a kind reminder of the previous email I sent you (through meta) > concerning the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). As I have already did some > follow uto some of you through WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, this time > I am reaching out to you all to* kindly remind those who have not yet > done the consultation with their communities to try doing so*, and *to > ask for any link to your discussion page *(for those who have already > done/ have started the consultation with their communities) so that your > inputs may be presented to the UCoC drafting committee *before 23rd > August 2020.* > > *Summary of key steps that you may follow on this facilitation: * > > *1. You* and *your community* are kindly invited to *read about the UCoC* > HERE <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct> > > *2*.*You* and *Your community* may discuss/post your feedback directly to > the main *UCoC talk page *HERE > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Universal_Code_of_Conduct>, or you > may choose to discuss/post your feedback on your community's discussion > pages such as village pumps e.t.c, then later you may send the link of that > discussion page to (amtavangu-ctr(a)wikimedia.org) > > *3*.*You* and *Your community* may choose, and you are welcome to to *translate > the universal code of conduct english main page into your respective local > language > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-U…>, *and > then you may choose to provide your opinions/feedback using your local > languages. > > 4. Any kind of feedback that doesn't involve onwiki discussions (such as > oral feedback), feel free to document them in any form, then kindly send it > to (amtavangu-ctr(a)wikimedia.org), I will be happy to add them to the > UCoC meta talk page for you. > > *NB: *For quicker reference, I am attaching again an English-Message to > small and medium sized wikis for your full awareness. > > Thank you all and please feel free to reach out to me in case of any > problem/questions. > > Best regards, > > Antoni Mtavangu (He/His) > > Universal Code of Conduct Facilitator > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment." >

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