Dear all,
I don't know if it is appropriate to discuss this here but I believe I can get a
useful advice here. The Nigerian language Wikipedia projects (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) need
urgent attention. English language is the official language in Nigeria but the Yoruba
language constitutes one of the major languages in Nigeria. The other two languages are
Igbo and Hausa.
Today, Yorubas along with the Igbos are the most educated ethnic groups in Africa but in
spite of this potentials, there are poor readership level and contributions to the Yoruba
Wikipedia projects. In fact, several existing and prospective Wikipedia editors as well as
scholars and student who can contribute significantly to the project are not even aware of
the existence of the Yoruba Wikipedia. Speaking in March 2012, in Lagos State,
southwestern Nigeria, Jimmy Wales said: Wikipedia has seven active editors working in
Yoruba language
("[http://m.voanews.com/a/wikipedia-co-founder-adding-more-african-languages-144875665/180406.html),
an extremely low number, less than 0.0001% of active editors on the English Wikipedia. In
fact, the seven active editors have reduce to 1 or 2. The truth is, I can't point to
any active editors contributing in that project.
The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria under the leadership of Olaniyan Olusola will need every
supports at the disposal of the WMF to preserve the Project. We are currently planning to
organize a conference entitled "WikiYoruba 2016" that will involve Yoruba
Language scholars and student who can contribute to the project.
I'm a native speaker of Yoruba language with good written skills in Yoruba language.
I'm an experienced Wikipedian who has created over 500 articles on the English
Wikipedia and I intend to use my experience to improve the Yoruba Wikipedia Project. You
may also want to see
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikicology/100_articles_contribu…)
The Content translation tool is currently unsupported by Yoruba Language. Had it been its
working, I would have translate hundreds of English Wikipedia contents.
Please we need the help and all forms of support to improve the project.
Cheers,
Olatunde Isaac (User:Wikicology)
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 07:57:30 +0530
From: Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris
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Solidarity from India for this tragic incident. Good to know that
Wikipedians in and from Paris are all safe.
Bodhisattwa
On 14 November 2015 at 12:28, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
<natalia.szafran(a)gmail.com> wrote:
User Paterm, Polish wikipedian living in Paris is also
well.
As is John Cummings, a UK citizen currently working as Wikimedian in
Residence at UNESCO in Paris.
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:04:03 -0800
From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
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By the way, was there any follow up at WMF to Risker's suggestion from
awhile ago that its budget get a peer review from a similarly situated
organization?
I've taken a peek at the discussions in the current round of FDC proposals.
I have some concerns about WMF staff critiquing the budgets of affiliates
while WMF's own budget practices are in need of improvement. I would like
to see WMF make efforts to improve that will be reflected in the new WMF
Annual Plan cycle. I am hoping that the WMF Board takes an interest in
these matters, particularly in light of concerns about fundraising targets
and top-line budget growth.
Thanks,
Pine
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:09:58 +0330
From: Mardetanha <mardetanha.wiki(a)gmail.com>
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my heart goes out to the families of those who have been killed and I am
really hopeful All wikimedians are safe,
stay safe
Mardetanha
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Alex, thanks for sharing this information. My thoughts
are with Wikimedians
and their family and friends.
Take care,
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Alex Cella <acella(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
All the staff is safe, I'm in touch with
them.
Thnaks for asking.
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
May WMFR coordinate efforts to inform us if all
Wikimedians from Paris
are
live and well?
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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 22:49:11 -0800
From: Anna Stillwell <astillwell(a)wikimedia.org>
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Andreas,
Thank you for this positive feedback. I can't comment on future banner
messages because I don't have the requisite knowledge.
Here's where we are right now... I've seen Megan and the fundraising team
really apply themselves on this concern. They've interviewed many people
and they are starting to collaborate with some of the people who have not
liked our banners.
I have no promises. None. I am just filling you in on the process. We're
also headed into the busiest times of our year and we are a small team so
we may not be able to update you in a timely fashion.
/a
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I see that the fundraising banners currently running
in Germany[1][2] no
longer speak of "keeping Wikipedia online and ad-free", but instead
encourage people to "give something back to Wikipedia" if they find it
useful.
That is a much, much better wording. Thank you. I trust the English banners
that will run in December will follow the same approach.
Note however that the German FAQ[3] that is linked from the German Donate
Now page[4] is several years out of date. It refers to 2013/2014 as the
current financial year, and directs readers to the 2011/2012 annual report
(!!!).
The English FAQ[5] has much less content than the German one (I'm told all
the outdated content has been commented out) and now lacks any specifics
that would give donors an idea of what the Foundation is doing with their
money.
In all languages, the link to the FAQ on the Donate Now page is in such
small print as to be barely legible. Please update the FAQs in all
languages as a matter of urgency, and change the font size of the links to
something more reasonable.
In general I would like to see the Foundation communicate more clearly,
transparently and proactively about where the money goes, and what the user
benefits are. Reports like the one last year on improving access speed[6]
are useful.
Andreas
[1]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Spendenbanner-de-s5mini-151112_Kopie.jpg
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fehlerhafte_Spendenkampagne.png
[3]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/de
[4]
https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPag…
[5]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en
[6]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/29/how-we-made-editing-wikipedia-twice-as…
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was happy to see increasing net assets and
increasing revenue. The
fundraising messages that WMF sends should to reflect the facts about
where
the money will go and about the current financial
status of WMF.
I've been told by someone whose history with the Wikimedia community is
longer than mine that many years ago, the chapters used to be in stronger
financial positions than WMF was. Eventually this flipped. As recently
as a
few years ago were consistent questions about the
effectiveness and
integrity of the chapters. In more recent history, the chapters seem to
be
doing well in terms of effectiveness and
integrity, and now the bulk of
the
revenue is going to WMF where there are more
questions about
effectiveness
and integrity. I'm particularly troubled by
the lack of responses from
WMF
to a number of questions that I repeatedly asked
about the 2015-2016
Annual
Plan, and I'd really like to see some work
done on increasing financial
transparency in WMF as well as enhancing the integrity of the online
fundraising messages.
Pine
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On October 30, the Wikimedia Foundation posted
its audited financial
statements for the year ended June 30, 2015.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/0/0b/Audit_Report_-_FY_14…
The figures contained in these statements have a bearing on the present
discussion. Some highlights:
Net assets at end of year:
$77.8 million
(up $24.3 million from $53.5 million)
Current assets include:
$35.2 million in cash and cash equivalents
$29.0 million in short-term investments.
Total support and revenue:
$75.8 million
(up $23.3 million from $52.5 million)
Total expenses:
$52.6 million
(up $6.7 million from $45.9 million)
Internet hosting costs:
just under $2 million
(down $0.5 million from $2.5 million)
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 10:13:51 +0100
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Hi everyone,
Thhank you all for your kind words.
We've had confirmation from almost every wikimedians living in Paris that
they're safe. The one we're waiting from are the one we don't have a way to
reach them.
At the same time, keep some thoughts for all the people in the Middle-East
that suffer and die on a daily basis at the hand of the same people. To the
people trying to flee from them.
And more than that, to all the people that die around the world because of
intolerance, misunderstanding and hatred.
Thank you all again.
Take care,
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On 14 November 2015 at 06:39, Mardetanha <mardetanha.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
my heart goes out to the families of those who have
been killed and I am
really hopeful All wikimedians are safe,
stay safe
Mardetanha
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Alex, thanks for sharing this information. My
thoughts are with
Wikimedians
and their family and friends.
Take care,
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Alex Cella <acella(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> All the staff is safe, I'm in touch with them.
>
> Thnaks for asking.
>
> --
>
> *Alex Cella*
> Finance Fellow
> acella(a)wikimedia.org
> LinkedIn <http://fr.linkedin.com/in/alexcella>
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
> 149 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA., 94105
>
www.wikimediafoundation.org
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
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> > May WMFR coordinate efforts to inform us if all Wikimedians from
Paris
> are
> > live and well?
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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 11:12:00 +0000
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As an international community we have an opportunity to respond in a
positive and healing way to the attacks in Paris as well as sharing
our feelings of shock and sympathy.
Perhaps by planning open knowledge events to celebrate Parisian and
GLAM-related Islamic culture, which we could announce in a few weeks
time?
Thoughts?
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