<div dir="auto"><div>Hello everyone and thanks for your efforts in bringing this project to life. I just endorsed it.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Accra training is just some weeks away unfortunately. I would have loved to attend it. Wikimedia Cote d'Ivoire is working closely with a bunch of coders, living in Abidjan but also in other French-speaking regions in Africa such as Senegal, Burkina, etc. This project could serve as a bridge helping these developers embark on the wikimedia endeavour.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Looking forward to organizing a similar training here.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2017 1:27 PM, "Sam Oye" <<a href="mailto:samoye_@hotmail.com" target="_blank">samoye_@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_4508221811861807046quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>This is such a great project; I'll endorse. I look forward to when it'd be coming to Nigeria, cos I'll gladly be part of it :).</p>
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<div>@Isaac we will certainly check out the links shared and thanks for the endorsement.</div>
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The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy that people would be trained on how to
contribute to Wikimedia project as part of this project. From experience, engaging participants after event is usually not a very easy task, and I think this is one area I think we really need to work on. This is not a problem peculiar to Africa, it's a general
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@Felix and Derrick, may I suggest that you take a look at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikicology/Adopt" target="_blank">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>User:Wikicology/Adopt</a>? I adapted from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WormTT/Adopt/" target="_blank">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>User:WormTT/Adopt/</a>. <br>
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To be honest with you, it really worked. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaybakky" target="_blank">
User:Jaybakky</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amunique" target="_blank">
User:Amunique</a> continued to edit as a result of that method. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Amunique" target="_blank">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Special:Contributions/Amunique</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jaybakky" target="_blank">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Special:Contributions/Jaybakky</a><wbr>. Both user stopped editing after my banned from the English Wikipedia last year since I could no longer continue with them. One of them stopped in May during my ArbCom case and the other,
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Many thanks to Felix and others for their continued effort to improving contributions from Africa and Derick for stepping in with a rare skill. United we stand, divided we fall!<br>
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<p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am excited to introduce the
</span><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">African
Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD)</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.[1] AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers
for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was followed through to
</span><a href="http://2017.wikiindaba.net/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wiki Indaba</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
where talks was concluded on how to further put this to work.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The project's main goal is to increase
the number of volunteer developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with affiliate
groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda.</span></p>
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intend to start our first training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for
about 2 months before planning the next place of training. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The next phase of the project will involve moving to
different countries and trying to emulate the success of the project there. </span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage you to visit and endorse the
</span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">grant
proposal</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> of our first training in Ghana here.[2]
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to share ideas on projects are invited to join the </span><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">mailing
list</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, our social media outfit (</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">facebook</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">
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