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by Puku Reception 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Good day I am hoping that someone here can kindly assist me. I was at the Wikidata conference this past Saturday, which took place at the Code for Africa offices. I would like to ask if someone could kindly send me a summary (in laments terms) on what Wikidata is, and how could an organisation/individual can benefit from being part of the initiative. What does it mean to be an Editor and how can one join? Thank you so much and I look forward to your response. Kind Regards, Zanele -- *Kind Regards,* *Zanele Ngcongo* *Puku Children’s Literature Foundation NPC* *T: +27 11 712 8429* *M: +27 73 773 3542* *W: puku.co.za <http://puku.co.za/>*

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Wikimania ZA Annual General Meeting reminder: this Saturday, 17:00
by Douglas Scott 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

Hello everyone, This is just a quick reminder of our Annual General Meeting and some related issues. Below are the details of the event: - *Time*: 17:00 for 17:30 - *Date*: Saturday, 27th October 2018 - *Location*: Code4Africa <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Code+for+Africa/@-33.9213056,18.4165724,1…> offices (top floor), 84 Shortmarket St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000 - Secure *parking*: Pinical Parking, 58A Strand St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town. I have written up a *report* in preparation for the AGM on what we have done so far this year which you can read on our website here: http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Template:/Report_2018 <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Template:/Report_2018> You will be able to access *minutes* of the meeting at our website here: http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/2018-AGM <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/2018-AGM> You can *attend the event digitally* on Google Hangouts at the link here: https://hangouts.google.com/call/iYi_e1_IPakM5f4PLpR1AEEI?no_rd We are also planning to *stream* the AGM via our YouTube channel which you can access here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBFQLpvHnAWXcrVFMxdYLPw Food and refreshments will be served at the event. Here are some related Wikimedia ZA events that will also be happening this weekend. *WikiData 6th birthday * - Location: Code4Africa office (top floor), 84 Shortmarket St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000 - Date: Saturday, 27th October 2018 - Time: 10:00-16:00 *Johannesburg editathon * - Location: Sci-Bono Discover Centre, Corner of Miriam Makeba & President Street, Newtown, Johannesburg - Date: Saturday, 27th October 2018 - Time: 9:00 to 15:15 *Wikipedia edit-a-thon: World Congress of Audiology* - Location: Cape Town International Convention Center, Rooms 1.41 and 1.42. Cape Town. - Date: Sunday, 28th October 2018 - Time: 09:00-14:00 Regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimania ZA Annual General Meeting reminder: this Saturday, 17:00
by Shabier 26 Oct '18

26 Oct '18

Hi. I hope I can attend. Also if there is anyone that resides/lives in the Northern Suburbs in the Goodwood area to get a lift home after the AGM/event. Thanks -------- Original message --------From: louli Guy -Xavier <guyxavierlouli(a)gmail.com> Date: 2018/10/25 23:24 (GMT+02:00) To: Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com> Cc: wikimediaza <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimania ZA Annual General Meeting reminder: this Saturday, 17:00 I will be attending the meeting. On Oct 25, 2018 5:10 PM, "Douglas Scott" <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > This is just a quick reminder of our Annual General Meeting and some > related issues. Below are the details of the event: > > - *Time*: 17:00 for 17:30 > - *Date*: Saturday, 27th October 2018 > - *Location*: Code4Africa > <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Code+for+Africa/@-33.9213056,18.4165724,1…> > offices (top floor), 84 Shortmarket St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape > Town > <https://maps.google.com/?q=84+Shortmarket+St,+Cape+Town+City+Centre,+Cape+T…>, > 8000 > - Secure *parking*: Pinical Parking, 58A Strand St, Cape Town City > Centre, Cape Town > <https://maps.google.com/?q=58A+Strand+St,+Cape+Town+City+Centre,+Cape+Town&…> > . > > I have written up a *report* in preparation for the AGM on what we have > done so far this year which you can read on our website here: > http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Template:/Report_2018 > <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Template:/Report_2018> > > You will be able to access *minutes* of the meeting at our website here: > http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/2018-AGM > <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/2018-AGM> > > You can *attend the event digitally* on Google Hangouts at the link here: > https://hangouts.google.com/call/iYi_e1_IPakM5f4PLpR1AEEI?no_rd > > We are also planning to *stream* the AGM via our YouTube channel which > you can access here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ > UCBFQLpvHnAWXcrVFMxdYLPw > > Food and refreshments will be served at the event. > > Here are some related Wikimedia ZA events that will also be happening this > weekend. > > *WikiData 6th birthday * > > - Location: Code4Africa office (top floor), 84 Shortmarket St, Cape > Town City Centre, Cape Town > <https://maps.google.com/?q=84+Shortmarket+St,+Cape+Town+City+Centre,+Cape+T…>, > 8000 > - Date: Saturday, 27th October 2018 > - Time: 10:00-16:00 > > *Johannesburg editathon * > > - Location: Sci-Bono Discover Centre, Corner of Miriam Makeba & > President Street, Newtown, Johannesburg > - Date: Saturday, 27th October 2018 > - Time: 9:00 to 15:15 > > *Wikipedia edit-a-thon: World Congress of Audiology* > > - Location: Cape Town International Convention Center, Rooms 1.41 and > 1.42. Cape Town. > - Date: Sunday, 28th October 2018 > - Time: 09:00-14:00 > > Regards, > > Douglas. > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Wikimedia ZA Annual General Meeting: time and location (important)
by Douglas Scott 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Hello everyone, We have just finalised the location and time of the Wikimedia ZA Annual General Meeting <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/2018-AGM> in Cape Town on Saturday the *27th of October 2018*. The event will be held from *17:00* onwards at *Code4Africa* <https://codeforafrica.org/> offices (top floor), *84 Shortmarket Street*, Cape Town. See details below. Please let me know if you would like to attend digitally or might have any difficulty attending due to transport costs. The 27th will be a busy day for us as we will also be hosting the Wikidata event <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday/Cape_Town_Meetup> and the Johannesburg education <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2018_Johannesburg_education_editathon> editathon which will end a few hours before the AGM kicks off. We would be delighted if you could join either of those events as well on the day. *Wikimedia ZA Annual General Meeting 2018 * The Wikimedia ZA board has elected to host our Annual General Meeting on Saturday the 27th October 2018. Below are the details for the AGM: - Time: 17:00 for 17:30 - Date: Saturday, 27th October 2018 - Location: Code4Africa offices (top floor), 84 Shortmarket St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000 Food and refreshments will be served during the AGM. *WikiData 6th birthday * - Location: Code4Africa office (top floor), 84 Shortmarket St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000 - Date: Saturday, 27th October 2018 - Time: 10:00-16:00 *Johannesburg editathon * - Location: Sci-Bono Discover Centre, Corner of Miriam Makeba & President Street, Newtown, Johannesburg - Date: Saturday, 27th October 2018 - Time: 9:00 to 15:15 Best regards and I hope to see you there, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Wikimedia ZA: Annual General Meeting date announced (27th October 2018)
by Douglas Scott 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Hello everyone, This is a general notice of Wikimedia ZA's annual general meeting (AGM) date. The Wikimedia ZA board has elected to have the AGM on Saturday the *27th October 2018*. The exact time and date will be announced closer to the date (within the next few days). The AGM will be taking place in Cape Town's city centre. If you would like to join digitally then please let me know and I will add you to the digital invite list. Thanks, Doulas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Wikipedia editathon for education (Johannesburg)
by Douglas Scott 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hello everyone, This is just to let you all know that there will be an editathon in Johannesburg on the 27th October 2018 (see below for details) to improve educational content on Wikipedia. Please join us if you would like to improve South African related educational content on Wikipedia. - *Location*: Sci-Bono Discover Centre <https://www.google.co.za/maps/place/Sci-Bono+Discovery+Centre/@-26.2044429,…>, Johannesburg - *Date*: Saturday, 27th October 2018 - *Time*: 9:00 to 15:15 The Moleskin Foundation <https://moleskinefoundation.org/> is supporting this event in an effort to promote education in South Africa through teacher development. This will be held at the same time as the WikiData birthday celebration in Cape Town. We are going to try and see if we can patch the two event through to each other so participants in both can participate in one or the other should they choose to. *Reminder* We will have our *AGM* on the same day 27th October 2018 after both the WikiData celebration (Cape Town) and education editathon. As mentioned above we will also be having the WikiData birthday <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday/Cape_Town_Meetup> celebration in Cape Town on the same day. Please see below for details on this: - *Location*: Code4Africa <https://www.google.co.za/maps/place/Code+for+Africa/@-33.9213101,18.4187664…> office (top floor), 84 Shortmarket St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000 - *Date*: Saturday, 27th October 2018 - *Time*: 10:00-15:30 Regards, Douglas. -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2019: New name, new concept, eligbility criteria
by Bobby Shabangu 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

FYI, ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Cornelius Kibelka <cornelius.kibelka(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 at 21:34 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2019: New name, new concept, eligbility criteria To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: <wmsummit(a)wikimedia.de> Dear all, As Nicole Ebber already wrote a couple of weeks ago, we would like to give you some further information about the next Wikimedia Conference, that will take place from March 29–31, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. The next conference will focus on the Movement Strategy process and movement governance for the organized part of the movement in general. The program will be designed according to the status and needs of the ongoing Movement Strategy process and its working groups. We are hoping to see a diverse group of participants next year, and look forward to creating three days of working, discussing, and thinking together. The event is made possible through the generous financial support of the Wikimedia Foundation. Thus, to make it clearer that learning and capacity-building will not be part of the program and cut laces to the previous conference, we will change the name to “Wikimedia Summit” (#wmsummit). The change of the purpose of the event is accompanied by a change in the composition of the audience. The event will be a more focused one, and therefore we aim to scale down the audience to around 200 participants. As it is this still the Wikimedia affiliates conference, every _eligible_ affiliate can send one (1) delegate. Furthermore, we will invite participants from the Wikimedia Affiliate EDs (~10), WMF Board of Trustees (10), WMF staff (~10), the committees (~15 from FDC, AffCom and Simple APG) and additional members of the Movement Strategy working groups, that do not come in another role (~20). You can find more information regarding this on Meta.[1] Registration for the Wikimedia Summit will open on November 2 and end on December 17, 2018. We urge participants that need a visa to register no later than November 19, so we can support them as best as possible to get a visa for the event. We will keep you updated in the further weeks and months via the usual communication channels. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us, preferably via wmsummit(a)wikimedia.de. Best regards, Daniela Gentner & Cornelius Kibelka [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2019/Eligibility_Criteria -- Cornelius Kibelka Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC) for the Wikimedia Conference Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Fwd: Wikidata Digest, Vol 82, Issue 12
by Michael Graaf 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Greetings all, I came across this on the Wikidata mailing list and believe it should be shared here. Regards, M. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <wikidata-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Monday, September 17, 2018 Subject: Wikidata Digest, Vol 82, Issue 12 To: wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org Send Wikidata mailing list submissions to wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikidata-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikidata-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikidata digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Participate in research to support Wikipedia editors (Lucie-Aimée Kaffee) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:18:37 +0200 From: Lucie-Aimée Kaffee <kaffee(a)soton.ac.uk> To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikidata] Participate in research to support Wikipedia editors Message-ID: <CAHdSuxF-VHyezphTof5cEP4M-9XyfQ0RT7x6dpYRK-L1FU3Xuw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello everyone, We are PhD researchers at the University of Southampton working on supporting underserved language communities in Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata information. We need your help! We work on generating text and want to understand how to support editors when creating new articles. We are currently conducting a series of interviews to understand the needs of the community better. We are looking for editors of Wikipedia, that would be available to do said interviews remotely (via google hangout or skype) in English. (The editing will still be in your native language of course.) We focus on under-resourced languages, meaning any but the top 5 Wikipedias in terms of article and editor count. It should take about 30 minutes of your time and would get us a better insight into how to support small-language communities better. The interviews will take place in the next two weeks. All of the data will be anonymized. Please find more information in the Participant Information Sheet: https://github.com/luciekaffee/Announcements/blob/master/Interviews- Participant-Information-Sheet.md If you want to participate and help us improving access to Wikipedia for under-resourced language communities, just send me an E-Mail at kaffee(a)soton.ac.uk or sign up to be contacted here: https://goo.gl/forms/gL9wPuYAt8zcpVbA3 You don’t need any prior experience beside Wikipedia editing. Looking forward to hearing from you! Thanks, Lucie (User:Frimelle) -- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee Web and Internet Science Group School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton

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Editathon Sat Sep 15
by Reuben Honigwachs 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Hi all This Saturday [1] we'll be hosting our monthly editathon at the American Corner. As always we'd like to warmly invite anyone who is interested to pop-in at any time. Also a reminder: in October we'll be holding the editathon during the Wikidata 6th Birthday Party [2]. [1] https://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-ZA/events/qzqrnpyxmbtb/ [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday/Cape_Town_Meetup Cheers, Reuben

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Wikidata 6th birthday
by Michael Graaf 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Hi all, some will be aware that Wikidata's birthday is approaching and there will be events scattered across the globe. Reuben and I have been in touch with Lea in Berlin to co-ordinate and have created this discussion <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Sixth_Birthday/Cape_Town_Meetup>. At the moment the question is whether to incorporate this into the monthly hackathon or hold a separate event. Carmen, one of the UCT librarians who was at Wikimania, has offered to arrange a venue on campus if desired but any other venue ideas are welcome (bearing in mind that the American Corner is fussy about food & drink). Regards, M. -- *Michael Graaf, M.I.T.(UCT)* *Researcher, Editor &* *Community Informatics Practitioner* keybase.io/michaelgraaf +27795487242

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