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/Wikimedia_ZA/Proposal_form 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=sharing 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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