Dear Wikimedians,
here's something that was inspired by one of the Swedish Wikidata activists (Jan Ainali) recently addressing African wikimedians on Twitter about a certain funding deadline that was looming. It was too close for me to feel able to respond, but I noted it as something that should be done at some stage.
WikiProject Govdirectory https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory aims to promote govdirectory.org https://www.govdirectory.org/ to become a global user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence by utilizing Wikidata. I had a look at the South Africa section and a lot of it is still blank. We as a chapter could address this. I don't think paying people to migrate content from websites etc. into Wikidata would contravene the taboo against paid editing, since it's just data transfer. What do others think? Regards,
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:57:02 +0200 From: Shupai Mchuchu shupai@wikimedia.org.za Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <CAM2-UY0rV4Wr1nEsQA7UsxsHrBsr6655JLqrPncG= D3w2KiaOA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Hello everyone
I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note for everyone.
WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like to run and manage.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
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
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:52:23 +0200 From: "Peter Southwood" peter.southwood@telkomsa.net Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Re: Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 001801d80c83$628fccf0$27af66d0$@telkomsa.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Shupai, Is there a wiki site for this? Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Shupai Mchuchu [mailto:shupai@wikimedia.org.za] Sent: 18 January 2022 14:57 To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist
Hello everyone
I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note for everyone.
WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like to run and manage.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC. 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:01:39 +0200 From: Douglas Scott douglas.i.scott@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Re: Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist To: wikimediaza wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <CAJ6y08FFVFf3-vc75FD6Pr7G6b0UkukHKhehCU=t=+W= aZBHOg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Hi Peter,
Not yet but now might be a good time to set one up on meta wiki.
Regards,
Douglas
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Hi Shupai, Is there a wiki site for this? Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Shupai Mchuchu [mailto:shupai@wikimedia.org.za] Sent: 18 January 2022 14:57 To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist
Hello everyone
I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note
for
everyone.
WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like to run and manage.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC. 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
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Thanks Michael, This strikes me as something that Openup might be very interested in. I will share it with them to see what can be done in the Southern African context.
Regards,
Douglas.
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Dear Wikimedians,
here's something that was inspired by one of the Swedish Wikidata activists (Jan Ainali) recently addressing African wikimedians on Twitter about a certain funding deadline that was looming. It was too close for me to feel able to respond, but I noted it as something that should be done at some stage.
WikiProject Govdirectory https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Govdirectory aims to promote govdirectory.org https://www.govdirectory.org/ to become a global user-friendly directory of government agencies and their online presence by utilizing Wikidata. I had a look at the South Africa section and a lot of it is still blank. We as a chapter could address this. I don't think paying people to migrate content from websites etc. into Wikidata would contravene the taboo against paid editing, since it's just data transfer. What do others think? Regards,
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- Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist (Shupai Mchuchu)
- Re: Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist (Peter Southwood)
- Re: Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist (Douglas Scott)
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 14:57:02 +0200 From: Shupai Mchuchu shupai@wikimedia.org.za Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <CAM2-UY0rV4Wr1nEsQA7UsxsHrBsr6655JLqrPncG= D3w2KiaOA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Hello everyone
I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note
for
everyone.
WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like to run and manage.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
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
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:52:23 +0200 From: "Peter Southwood" peter.southwood@telkomsa.net Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Re: Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 001801d80c83$628fccf0$27af66d0$@telkomsa.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi Shupai, Is there a wiki site for this? Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Shupai Mchuchu [mailto:shupai@wikimedia.org.za] Sent: 18 January 2022 14:57 To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist
Hello everyone
I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note
for
everyone.
WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is project ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas of projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would like to run and manage.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC. 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:01:39 +0200 From: Douglas Scott douglas.i.scott@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Re: Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist To: wikimediaza wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: <CAJ6y08FFVFf3-vc75FD6Pr7G6b0UkukHKhehCU=t=+W= aZBHOg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Hi Peter,
Not yet but now might be a good time to set one up on meta wiki.
Regards,
Douglas
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 at 17:52, Peter Southwood < peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> wrote:
Hi Shupai, Is there a wiki site for this? Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Shupai Mchuchu [mailto:shupai@wikimedia.org.za] Sent: 18 January 2022 14:57 To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa Project Wishlist
Hello everyone
I hope this finds you well and the new year has started on a good note
for
everyone.
WikimediaZA wants to create a project wishlist, this wishlist is
project
ideas you the community would like to run, manage and implement.
I am writing to you all kindly requesting you to send to me any ideas
of
projects you would like to see being run within the chapter or would
like
to run and manage.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Looking forward to hearing from you all.
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC. 6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
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