FPV Fest South Africa have joined forces with Wikimedia ZA to help encourage
the local FPV community to contribute aerial video and photo content to
Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia.
The focus of the project, a world first, is to increase the quantity and
quality of aerial photographs and video media of important public landmarks
and scenery in Africa.
The competition will run during the months of March and April, and the
winners will be announced at the SA Drone Festival, which will be held in
Cape Town from 1 - 3 May 2015.
For more information, please visit the Wikimedia ZA website
<http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Wiki_From_Above_2015> or the FPV Fest Website
<http://www.fpvfest.com/#!wikimedia-comp/c1r6n> .
Yours faithfully
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Dear Wiki-World,
We want to keep you informed of our activities and projects, so this is the first in a series of weekly updates with the latest news.
It’s been a busy week for the WM ZA team!
FDC Proposal
As advised last week, we will be submitting our first ever FDC proposal on 1 April 2015. We have completed our <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM_ZA_Annual_Strategic_Plan_2015-2016> annual strategic plan and <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Wikim…> proposal on meta, and these will now be reviewed by the WMZA Board of Trustees before final submission.
Business Banking
We are pleased to advise that we have finally managed to convert our account to online business banking. This should be up and running by the end of next week, and we are confident that this will address the issues we have been experiencing with making payments etc. All administrative functions and requests for payment will be done by the Administrator, and payments will be released by a Director, either Douglas Scott (President) or Dumisani Ndubane (Director).
VAT Registration
As our <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B96yUaPyFKiTbmFtSl9fYjBZWDA/view?usp=shari…> first annual audit has been completed, we are now able to apply for VAT Registration with SARS. We hope to submit the necessary documentation by the end of next week, and will keep you up to date with the progress.
Wiki from Above
We are very excited about this new project! FPV Fest South Africa have joined forces with WM ZA to help encourage the local FPV community to contribute aerial video and photo content to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia. The focus of the project is to increase the quantity and quality of aerial photographs and video media of important public landmarks and scenery in Africa. As soon as we have finalised all the details, we will post more information on our website <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Wiki_From_Above_2015> as well as the FPV Fest Website <http://www.fpvfest.com/#!wikimedia-comp/c1r6n> .
Research Invitation - Bilingual English/isiXhosa Speakers
UCT has launched a competitive online game to translate South African Wikipedia articles from English into isiXhosa. Please visit <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Main_Page> our website for more information.
Inspire Campaign to fund new gender diversity initiatives
Do you have an idea to increase gender diversity in Wikimedia projects? >From now until 31 March 2015, Wikimedia’s Inspire Campaign is looking for proposals to address gender issues on projects like Wikipedia. For more information, <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire> please visit the Inspire website.
If you aren’t a member of WM ZA <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Template:Join-Us> yet, why not join us? Membership requests can be mailed to the Administrator <mailto:humetheresa@gmail.com?subject=WMZA%20Membership%20Enquiry> .
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Have a wonderful editing week!
Wiki Regards
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