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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] AGM
by Lourie Pieterse 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Hello Charlene All I have to say is that I am acting in the interest of the chapter members. None of them complained so far about anything what I did, and should someone have a problem with what I am doing, I am always open to listening and improving the way I am doing things. All my actions are within the by-laws of the chapter. I have no problem with speaking to you on Saturday and having a constructive conversation, but if you plan to insult me again as previously, I am not interested. Kind regards Lourie >________________________________ > From: Charlene Foster <afrastocracy(a)gmail.com> >To: Mohau Monaledi <monaledi(a)gmail.com>; David Richfield <davidrichfield(a)gmail.com>; Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> >Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 6:50 AM >Subject: AGM > > >Hi everyone, > >I see that there is a feverish rush to hold the AGM in Cape Town at the launch. I am traveling and will be back in Jo'burg on the weekend and will find the email where the board agreed on the timeline for the AGM which I had also stated in the meeting grant application. Please Lourie could you just stop behaving as though you are the only person carrying the chapter and allow for appropriate governance to take place. > >If you are up to dealing with appropriate govenrnance matters and protocols then lets speak on Saturday after six when I have rested and had a moment to spend with my family. > >Thank you and trust that you will be in a position to have the conversaton on Saturday >-- >Charlene Foster >+27 82 850 5740 > > > >"At the feast of Ego everyone leaves hungry" > > >

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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Annual general meeting request
by Thuvack N 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Hi Lourie et all Sounds good to me. I will be at the Wiki Loves Monuments Launch. Regards Dumi

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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Fwd: [Wikimedia-ZA-Board] [URGENT] Annual general meeting request
by Lourie Pieterse 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

We budgeted for all of the board members to be at the launch, which is in Cape Town, so it is the cheapest option available. :) I hope that we are going to see you there? Kindregards Lourie >________________________________ > From: Mohau Monaledi <monaledi(a)gmail.com> >To: Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> >Cc: WikimediaZA Board <wikimedia-za-board(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 3:01 PM >Subject: Fwd: [Wikimedia-ZA-Board] [URGENT] Annual general meeting request > > >Lourie, > >Would it be cost effective to have the AGM in Cape Town? > >Regards >Mohau > > > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> >Date: Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 7:01 PM >Subject: [Wikimedia-ZA-Board] [URGENT] Annual general meeting request >To: WikimediaZA <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >Cc: WikimediaZA Board <wikimedia-za-board(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > >Hello everyone > > >After countless discussions lately with many parties, it is clear that the chapter should have an annual general meeting (AGM) soon. From these discussions it was suggested that the meeting should take place on the morning before the WLM and chapter launch on 1 September in Cape Town. Our bylaws require that the meeting should be held in the city of registration, unless otherwise decided. Can we please get as many comments as possible whether it will be alright to have the meeting at the following: > > >Place: Cape Town (venue to be decided) >Date: 1 September 2012 >Time: 09:00 > > >Please respond to this email if you are a member of the chapter. Thank you! > > > >Kind regardsLourie > >_______________________________________________ >Wikimedia-ZA-Board mailing list >Wikimedia-ZA-Board(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-za-board > > > > >

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Facebook page target and Launch event.
by Thuvack N 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Hi all. Our Faebook page is getting lonely and can really use all of your support. Lets buld it audience. If you havent liked the page as yet please see the following beolw: 1) Face book page. Please follow the link and like the page. http://www.facebook.com/WLMZA Lets get 100 likes by the end of august. Once you have liked the page, dont forget to invite all your FB friends to do the same. The more the merrier. 2) Launch event in two weeks time. We have setup a facebook event on the following link: http://www.facebook.com/WLMZA?ref=hl#!/events/455972017768835/ Please follow link and click that you will attend if you can be in cape town on the first of september. We need at least 30 wikimedians who can be in Capetown on the day to come through. The wikipedia list suggests that there are atleast 60 wikimedian living in and arround Cape Town. Please let us know on the event above if you will attend so that we can finalise our catering requirements. The time has come to be the best we cn be, remember we are the only African country participating in this international competition. Africa will be judged by our own efforts!! lets not dissapoint. Regards Dumi (The little commander)

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Membership of Wikimedia South Africa
by David Richfield 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Hi all, Now that we're incorporated, we need to grow our membership so as to achieve critical mass. According to the consititution, "Any person who makes a written application to become a member of the company and whose application is accepted by the directors shall be and become a member of the company." Dumisani has expressed interest and been welcomed on the email lists, but I'd like to get confirmation that he has been formally accepted as a member. I support his membership. Maarten has asked how he can become a member, which I take to be a written request, and I also support his membership. I am sure that if we ask Douglas whether he wants to be a member, he'll join, and I'd like to ask pre-emptively whether anyone has an objection to his membership. I'd also like us to agree on a membership process. One reasonable way to approach this would be to require a prospective member to contact a board member or post directly to the WMZA list. A director can then approve his or her membership tenatively with a posting to the board list - with no objections within two weeks, or with all directors' agreement, that director should then be allowed to approve the membership request formally. Please give me your feedback on this proposal. In terms of getting new members, we urgently need to get more Wikimedia project people into the organisation. We can do this by advertising on the wikis. Wikiproject South Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_South_Africa The Wikiproject South Africa is quite active, and I think we should all join it, and announce any meetups on the project page. We should try to get banners on South African language Wikis ASAP: The only really active one is Afrikaans: http://af.wikipedia.org . We have none of the more active af-wiki editors in our membership, which is a shame. I'm sure we can fix this soon by simply approaching them and letting them know who we are and what we're doing. Registered but less active: http://nso.wikipedia.org - Sepedi Wikipedia has 568 pages, but not very many active editors. I see Mohau has been editing a bit there. http://zu.wikipedia.org - isiZulu Wikipedia has 543 pages, and a relatively similar state to Sepedi. http://tn.wikipedia.org - Setswana Wikipedia has 491 pages, but not very much seems to be going on there since the Google challenge finished. http://ss.wikipedia.org - siSwati Wikipedia has 361 pages, slightly less active than Sepedi and isiZulu http://ts.wikipedia.org - Xitsonga Wikipedia only has 193 pages, but seems to have more activity recently, and has a nicer-looking front page than many similar-sized minor language Wikipedias. I see Dumisani (Thuvack) has been active there, maybe he can help connect with the community. http://ve.wikipedia.org - tshiVenda Wikipedia has 190 pages, but doesn't seem active at all at the moment. http://st.wikipedia.org - Sesotho Wikipedia has 145 pages, but doesn't seem very active. http://xh.wikipedia.org - isiXhosa Wikipedia has 136 pages, but is not active lately. If we can manage to connect to active users in these Wikipedias, we might be able to get them to write a note on the front page asking users to connect with us, to build community connections. http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nr/Main_Page - Southern Ndebele has one article, about the National Language Service, so I doubt there's a community to work with. I think we should also ask for a geolocated banner ad: this way anyone who uses Wikipedia in South Africa can be alerted to our existence, and hopefully we'll get some traction. Kind regards, David -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985

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[URGENT] Annual general meeting request
by Lourie Pieterse 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

Hello everyone After countless discussions lately with many parties, it is clear that the chapter should have an annual general meeting (AGM) soon. From these discussions it was suggested that the meeting should take place on the morning before the WLM and chapter launch on 1 September in Cape Town. Our bylaws require that the meeting should be held in the city of registration, unless otherwise decided. Can we please get as many comments as possible whether it will be alright to have the meeting at the following: Place: Cape Town (venue to be decided) Date: 1 September 2012 Time: 09:00 Please respond to this email if you are a member of the chapter. Thank you! Kind regards Lourie

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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Gauteng meeting report
by Lourie Pieterse 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

Thanks Winifred, we will take a look at it soon. Kind regards Lourie >________________________________ > From: Winifred Olliff <grants(a)wikimedia.org> >To: Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> >Cc: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>; WikimediaZA Board <wikimedia-za-board(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 2:19 AM >Subject: Re: Gauteng meeting report > > >Thank you for this report, Lourie. > > >We have offered a few comments here: > > >http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_ZA/Gauteng_meeting/Report > > >Please take a few moments to review the comments and respond, so we can move forward with reviewing and accepting this report. Let us know if you have any questions. > > >Sincerely, > > >On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >Hello >> >> >>We have just uploaded our report for the Gauteng meeting: >>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_ZA/Gauteng_meeting/Report >> >> >> >>Find also attached the receipts of expenses. >> >> >>Kind regardsLourie > > >

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WLMZA Grant approved
by Lourie Pieterse 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

For those of you who do not already know; the WLM grant got approved yesterday! :) This is excellent news, but as mentioned by Asaf, we are still going to follow up other avenues such as the NHC for funding. Personally I want to specially thank Dumisani for handling all the comments regarding this grant and adapting it accordingly. Thanks! King regards Lourie >________________________________ > From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> >To: Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com>; Dumisani Ndubane <dumisanin(a)iburst.co.za> >Cc: Winifred Olliff <wolliff(a)wikimedia.org> >Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 1:47 AM >Subject: WLM Grant approved > > >Hi there. > > >So, I'm happy to announce the WLM grant is finally approved as it currently stands. (We still look forward to hearing about the NHC grant, of course.) > > >Ms. Winifred Olliff will be in touch with further instructions. > > >Cheers, > > > Asaf >-- > > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation > > > >Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >https://donate.wikimedia.org > > >

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Re: [Wikimedia ZA] WikimediaZA Digest, Vol 25, Issue 7
by thuvack＠gmail.com 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

Hi Guys. Deadlines look good to me except for August 30, Translations. We will only be able to do most translations after we have completed the website (which is almost there). By the way Lourie, how far are you with adding the translate extension? Regards Dumi Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: wikimediaza-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sender: wikimediaza-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:00:39 To: <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Reply-To: wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: WikimediaZA Digest, Vol 25, Issue 7 Send WikimediaZA mailing list submissions to wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimediaza-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimediaza-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WikimediaZA digest..." Today's Topics: 1. WLM Deadlines (Lourie Pieterse) 2. Re: WLM Deadlines (David Richfield) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:51:27 +0100 (BST) From: Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> To: WikimediaZA <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] WLM Deadlines Message-ID: <1344433887.52751.YahooMailNeo(a)web133002.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello everyone Please see the email from Lodewijk below. Are everyone happy with these deadlines? Kind regards Lourie ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> >To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 1:19 PM >Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Deadlines: please check > > >Hi all, > > >I would like to repeat the deadlines from?http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Ti… again, and would like to hear it very soon if one of the deadlines is not realistic for you, or if you have good reasons to change it. Especially the October 21 deadline is important. With that information, we will set the final deadlines on Saturday.? > > >* August 27: Upload wizard and websites should be ready.? >* August 30: Crucial infrastructure should be translated to your local languages, banner info should be ready and translated. English summary page should be available for each country.? >* 1 September - 30 September: actual contest. Banners up. (exception Israel, which is using the hebrew months, but will follow the other deadlines) >* October 21: Deadline for submitting the 10 nominations for the international contest. This can be a private submission (with delayed publishing) and they do not have to be ordered. Being late for this deadline might result in having no nominations in the international contest - so make sure this is a realistic deadline for you.? >* November 18: The international jury needs to have its results ready. This can't be much later, because we would like to produce calendars again, but this time get them delivered before the end of the year.? > > >I would appreciate it also if some people could confirm this is realistic and workable for them.? > > >Best, >Lodewijk >_______________________________________________ >Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaza/attachments/20120808/197a2…> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 10:26:00 -0400 From: David Richfield <davidrichfield(a)gmail.com> To: Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> Cc: WikimediaZA <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] WLM Deadlines Message-ID: <CAE_D4n4J=b7G+HcL29QZC7TLb9PnmPrR=LUCAb74q2C2PtyNcw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 We'll have to be happy with the deadlines, I guess. As and when there is work that I can usefully contribute to the WLM websites, please post about it repeatedly on the mailing lists! On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Lourie Pieterse <louriepieterse(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello everyone > > Please see the email from Lodewijk below. Are everyone happy with these > deadlines? > > Kind regards > Lourie > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> > To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition > <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 1:19 PM > Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Deadlines: please check > > Hi all, > > I would like to repeat the deadlines from > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline > once again, and would like to hear it very soon if one of the deadlines is > not realistic for you, or if you have good reasons to change it. Especially > the October 21 deadline is important. With that information, we will set the > final deadlines on Saturday. > > * August 27: Upload wizard and websites should be ready. > * August 30: Crucial infrastructure should be translated to your local > languages, banner info should be ready and translated. English summary page > should be available for each country. > * 1 September - 30 September: actual contest. Banners up. (exception Israel, > which is using the hebrew months, but will follow the other deadlines) > * October 21: Deadline for submitting the 10 nominations for the > international contest. This can be a private submission (with delayed > publishing) and they do not have to be ordered. Being late for this deadline > might result in having no nominations in the international contest - so make > sure this is a realistic deadline for you. > * November 18: The international jury needs to have its results ready. This > can't be much later, because we would like to produce calendars again, but > this time get them delivered before the end of the year. > > I would appreciate it also if some people could confirm this is realistic > and workable for them. > > Best, > Lodewijk > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza End of WikimediaZA Digest, Vol 25, Issue 7 ******************************************

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WLM Deadlines
by Lourie Pieterse 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hello everyone Please see the email from Lodewijk below. Are everyone happy with these deadlines? Kind regards Lourie ----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> >To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 1:19 PM >Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Deadlines: please check > > >Hi all, > > >I would like to repeat the deadlines from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline once again, and would like to hear it very soon if one of the deadlines is not realistic for you, or if you have good reasons to change it. Especially the October 21 deadline is important. With that information, we will set the final deadlines on Saturday. > > >* August 27: Upload wizard and websites should be ready. >* August 30: Crucial infrastructure should be translated to your local languages, banner info should be ready and translated. English summary page should be available for each country. >* 1 September - 30 September: actual contest. Banners up. (exception Israel, which is using the hebrew months, but will follow the other deadlines) >* October 21: Deadline for submitting the 10 nominations for the international contest. This can be a private submission (with delayed publishing) and they do not have to be ordered. Being late for this deadline might result in having no nominations in the international contest - so make sure this is a realistic deadline for you. >* November 18: The international jury needs to have its results ready. This can't be much later, because we would like to produce calendars again, but this time get them delivered before the end of the year. > > >I would appreciate it also if some people could confirm this is realistic and workable for them. > > >Best, >Lodewijk >_______________________________________________ >Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list >WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org >https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments >http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org > >

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