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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Christmas release of Kiwix 0.9 for PC
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:31:26 +0100
From: Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org>
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Dear Wikimedians
After two years of waiting since last release, we are happy to finally
release Kiwix 0.9. This version is dedicated to computers running
Windows, OSX or GNU/Linux. The binaries are available here:
http://download.kiwix.org/bin/0.9/
This new release does not bring new revolutionary features but focuses
on improving the user experience. An important work was done to polish
the software and this is probably the biggest release we have ever done.
You can find a detailed CHANGELOG at http://changelog.kiwix.org
The software is already available online on Kiwix web site. Portable
version were also repackaged to contain an up2date version of the
software. More details at http://www.kiwix.org
Like always, we appreciate feedbacks and reports:
* http://forum.kiwix.org/
* http://reportbug.kiwix.org/
* http://requestfeature.kiwix.org/
Best regards
Emmanuel
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Bonjour,
je débarque sur cette liste, et je ne suis pas certains que c'est le bon endroit. Néanmoins, je vous signale l'organisation d'un atelier consacré à «Wikipédia et les études africaines» à l'occasion du 6e ECAS (Congrès européen des études africaines) qui se déroulera en juillet 2015 à Paris <http://www.ecas2015.fr/african-studies-and-wikipedia/>. L'appel à intervention est ouvert jusqu'au 9 janvier 2015.
Hello,
this is to inform the followers of this list that a workshop about “Wikipedia and African Studies” will be organised during the 6th ECAS (European Congress of African Studies), held in Paris in July 2015 <http://www.ecas2015.fr/african-studies-and-wikipedia/>. The call for intervention ends on January 9th 2015.
Simon Imbert-Vier (France)
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Wikipédia, projet d’encyclopédie collaborative internationale et multilingue sur internet, interpelle aussi les chercheurs engagés dans les études africaines. Son mode de fonctionnement, ses méthodes de validation des savoirs et de légitimation des compétences, suivant un modèle de «vigilance ignorante» (Cardon & Levrel 2009), sont éloignés des pratiques académiques. Les chercheurs sont cependant fréquemment confrontés à l’utilisation de l’encyclopédie dans les débats; son contenu se retrouve en particulier dans les travaux d’étudiants et les médias.
A l’automne 2009, ce constat a amené le CEMAf à tenter d’«investir» les pages francophones consacrées à l’Afrique afin d’en «améliorer» le contenu. Pour aider les membres du laboratoire dans cette action, quelques séances de formation théorique et pratique au fonctionnement de l’encyclopédie ont été organisées avec la participation de l’association Wikimédia France.
Outre un premier bilan de cette démarche, les communications souhaitées pour cet atelier présenteront des expériences et approches d’autres chercheurs, institutions et/ou Wikipédia, afin d’échanger sur les pratiques, procédures, méthodes, difficultés et avancées.
D’autres questions peuvent aussi être mises en débat, par exemple : les savoirs et les tempos académiques et encyclopédiques sont-ils compatibles ? Que vaut un discours scientifique sans auteur ? Comment introduire une approche critique ? Comment valoriser une participation nécessairement chronophage ?
Wikipedia, internet collaborative and multilingual encyclopaedia project, questions researchers involved in African studies. Its knowledge validation methods and competence legitimation processes, according an “ignorant watchfulness” scheme (Cardon & Levrel 2009), are far from academic practices and rules. Specialists are however frequently confronted with knowledge from the encyclopaedia in debates, students’ works and medias.
This is why, in Autumn 2009, former CEMAf decided to try “investing” french language Wikipedia’s pages dedicated to Africa, in order to “improve” them. To help the researchers in this action, some theoretical and practical training were organised in relation with the Wikimédia France association.
Beyond an assessment of this approach, interventions in this workshop will be about other experience from researcher either within different structure or Wikipedia, in order to exchange about practices, way of doing, methods, difficulties and progresses.
Other questions can also be discussed in this workshop, like: are academic and encyclopaedic knowledges compatible ? What is a scientific presentation without author ? How to introduce a critical approach ? How to recognise professionally a participation always time consuming ?
Bonjour Florence,
Je suis un nouveau membre dans la liste.J'ai découvert wikipédia il y a environ un an déjà; ceci dans le cadre du projet Afripédia.
Je suis aujourd'hui un fidèle contributeur (wikipédia, commons,...) sans oublier la formation.
Je pense que ce projet est très porteur pour l'Afrique francophone particulièrement; avec ce qui est fait on peut espérer que les choses aillent de l'avant surtout.Je pense qu'avec les structures qui vont être mises sur pied (formations, club wikipédia, ...), le Cameroun, sera compter parmi les pays actifs en terme de participation aux différents projets à l'instar de wiki Loves Africa auquel j'ai participé à titre personnel.
Donc s'il vous plaît, ne perdez pas patience.
A bientôt,
Georges
Hi,
at Kiwix, we do our best to support as much as possible the
"local/minor" languages. That means providing offline versions of
smaller wikis but also provide localised user interface.
Kiwix user interface is localised by volunteers on Translatewiki. You
can get there a good overview of the current status for each language:
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&group=out…
Kiwix user interface is already translated in more than 100 languages
but you can see by yourself that many essential African languages are
still not fully translated. For this reason we can't integrate them as
"supported language" to the software.
Thus, this would be really great if a few readers of this mailing list
help to improve Kiwix localisation in their mother tongue. Translate the
whole set of strings in one language takes only a few hours and can
really benefit to thousands of Kiwix users (but many of the languages
are already partly translated).
Here is how to start:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:How_to_start
Thank you in advance for your help.
Regards
Emmanuel
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication
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rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford
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From: "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>
Date: Dec 15, 2014 11:06 PM
Subject: Wikimania Documentary Done
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hello everyone,
The final version of the Wikimania Documentary can be found on YouTube.
Will push to Commons by end of this week as it requires a bit of alteration
to make it fully Wikimedia Commons License compliant.
Wikimania 2014 Documentary: http:// <http://youtu.be/1444m7vhhFo>youtu.be
<http://youtu.be/1444m7vhhFo>/1444m7vhhFo <http://youtu.be/1444m7vhhFo>
Interviews taken at the conference will be released to public soon.
Currently awaiting the video's public-going approval from the interviewees.
Subtitles will be added soon to the documentary video on YouTube. Editing
the videos wasn't as difficult to me as adding the subtitles. Dang!
Thanks for all your support and assistance.
Will love to also hear from and get in touch with our friends in
Kazakhstan.
rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford
Hello everyone,
As open advocates, I think its cool that we apply for this fellowship.
OpenGov Fellowship | Open Knowledge and Code for Africa
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Pioneering Fellowships Will Help Rewire Africa’s Governments
(Application deadline: 15 December 2014)
Do you want to help us build African governments and societies that are more accountable and responsive to citizens?
We are looking for the best ideas for harnessing the power of digital technologies and open data, to improve the way that governments and citizens interact.
Code for Africa and Open Knowledge are offering three pilot Open Government Fellowships to give outstanding changemakers the skills, tools and resources necessary to kickstart open government initiatives in their countries.
The six-month fellowships are intended to empower pioneers who are already working in the open data or civic engagement communities, and are designed to augment their existing ‘day jobs’ rather than remove them from their organisations. Successful fellows will therefore only be expected to work part-time on their fellowship projects (which could include new initiatives at their ‘day jobs’), but will receive strategic and material support throughout their fellowship.
This support will include a modest $1,000 per month stipend, a $3,000 seed fund to kickstart projects, a travel budget to attend local and international events, access to workspace in Code for Africa affiliate civic technology labs across the continent, and technology support from Code for Africa developers and data analysts. Fellows will also be able to tap into Open Knowledge’s School of Data networks and resource kits, and its global network of specialist communities, as well as Code for Africa affiliate communities such as Hacks/Hackers.
The deadline for applications is 15 December 2014. The fellowships are scheduled to start in February 2015 and run until July 2015.
So, who qualifies for the fellowship? The initiative is a pilot, and is therefore casting the net as wide as possible. Applicants should:
Currently be engaged in the open government and/or related communities . We are looking to support individuals already actively participating in the open government community
> Be able to point to examples of their work in the civic data or civic technology space, or work in open data or open government communities
> Understand the role of civil society and citizen based organisations in bringing about positive change through advocacy and campaigning
> Understand the role and importance of monitoring government commitments to open data as well as other open government policy related issues
> Have facilitation skills and enjoy community-building (both online and offline)
> Be eager to learn from and be connected with an international community of open government experts, advocates and campaigners
> Currently live and work in Africa. Due to limited resources and our desire to develop a focused and impactful pilot programme, we are limiting applications to those currently living and working in Africa. We hope to expand the programme to the rest of the world in 2015.
> The fellowship will initially be limited to African countries where either Code for Africa or Open Knowledge have extensive resources or deep partnerships. Applicants should therefore be based in one of the following countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Senegal, Tunisia, Tanzania, and Uganda. We hope to expand the initiative to include additional countries later in 2015.
The selection committee will pay particular attention to applicants’ current engagement in the open government movement at local, national and/or international level. The committee will also be interested in applicants’ ideas around proposed strategic partnerships and pilot projects for their fellowships. Neither Code for Africa nor Open Knowledge are being prescriptive about the proposed focus or scope for projects, but will prefer projects that demonstrate clear visions with tangible outputs. This could include fellows working with a specific government department or agency to make a key dataset available. It could also include helping communities use available data, or organising a series of events addressing a specific topic or challenge citizens are currently facing.
Successful candidates will commit to work on their fellowship activities a minimum of six days a month, including attending online and offline training, organising events, and being an active member both Open Knowledge and Code for Africa communities.
While the pilot fellowships are limited to 16 countries initially, we are exploring ways to expand it to other regions. Get in touch if you would like to work with us to do so.
Convinced? Apply now to become a Open Government Fellow. The application is available here. If you are more comfortable submitting your application in French or Portuguese, you will find it in French here and in Portuguese here. The deadline is 15 December 2014 and the programme will start in February 2015.
Kayode Yussuf
In 2017 (August 9-13), the ACASA Art Council of the African Studies Association is having its triennial meeting in Ghana. it is the first time in Africa. http://www.acasaonline.org
1. It is a very relevant conference for Wikimedia issues. it is an event attended by: researchers from Africa and focussed on Africa, people involved in art and cultural heritage, and representatives of international institutions (museums from the continent and outside, i.e. many South African institutions are normally present at the conference, and there are also very well-known names such as US museums and universities like Smithsonian, Brooklyn, Harvard).
2. the association ACASA is already working on the logistics and the board is composed of very nice people
3. the event is in 2017 - time to plan fundraising for scholarships, communication and involvement of people from the continent also related to Wikimedia
4. Ghana has a group of people already active on the Wikimedia projects.
5. wikimedia events can be training for all participants, presentations, and it is also possible to create a pre-event or post-event just for Wikimedia volunteers if relevant.
I wanted to launch the idea for an African gathering in another country (as suggested by Wikimedia ZA) but with a light management work.
what do you think?
all the best
iolanda/iopensa
Hello guys
I wanted to give you a head-up with regards to next steps in the Wiki
Loves Africa contest.
We have convinced 7 people to help us :) Only one lady :(
You probably know 4 of them, as wikimedians. The 3 others being non
wikimedians.
I copy paste a bit of presentation about them at the bottom of this email.
What is planned is that in the next 3-4 weeks, our wikimedians
jury-members will look at the images uploaded and make a preselection of
their favorites.
The preselection will then be looked upon by the 7 members of the jury.
Link to the pictures:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2…
I hope you can help identifying the best images as well. I am sure your
help would be welcome if you are interested.
Flo
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Mike Peel
Mike is a postdoctoral Researcher at Jodrell Bank as well as an
astronomer and a wikipedian. He co-funded Wikimedia UK. Contact:
www.mikepeel.net
Habib M'henni
Long time Wikipedian and Wikimedian, amateur photographer, and
contributor to Wikimedia Commons. Habib is very actively involved in
Wikimedia Tunisia User Group. Contact: http://about.me/habibmhenni
Pierre Beaudoin
Pierre Yves Beaudouin has been a wikipedian for over 5 years and is the
former president of Wikimedia France. Based in Paris, his work is mainly
about sports photography and the funerary art of the Pere Lachaise
Cemetary. Contact: pierre.beaudouin(a)wikimedia.fr
Pierre-Selim Huard
Long time Wikipedian and Wikimedian, an engineer in green aviation
development but also a dedicated amateur photographer. Pierre-Selim
contributes high quality pictures to Wikimedia Commons in topics such as
sports, museum items and cultural heritage monuments. He was also a jury
member on the Wiki Loves Monument contest. Contact:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:PierreSelim
Paul Sika
Paul Sika is an autodidact artist and a trained software engineer born
in Ivory Coast. Exposed to animation and video games while a child, Paul
Sika discovers in high school a passion for computer programming through
scientific calculators. The most beautiful projects will be the
adaptations on calculator of flagship games of the time such as Pokémon
and Zelda. After a Bachelor degree in Software Engineering at the
University of Westminster, London, UK as well as the study of techniques
of Cinema, he develops a photographic technique called Photomaking, a
fusion of photography and filmmaking, described in 2007 as “a new form
of art” by Olympus User Magazine UK. Paul Sika work is available at
www.PaulSika.com
Carianne Wilkinson
Carianne Wilkinson is the Vice-President of Silwood School of Cookery in
Cape Town, South Africa. Founded by Lesley Faull in 1964, Silwood is
South Africa’s oldest cookery school. It has, over the past 50 years,
earned itself a world-class reputation and graduates can be found in top
kitchens around the world. Carianne is an accredited South African Chefs
Association judge, and has also been a San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best
Restaurants judge. Find more at http://www.silwood.co.za/
Africa Melane
Africa Melane’s wide-ranging interests and relentless curiosity comes to
the fore on his Weekend Breakast on 702 and CapeTalk (independent South
African Radio Broadcasters), a show that ranges from international
headlines to must-visit events around the corner. An accountant by
training, Africa has spent a decade in broadcasting, both on and
off-air. Africa is a self-confessed thespian, foodie enthusiast and a
Fleur Du Cap judge. On twitter: @AfricaMelane.