Hello everyone,
I hope this email finds you well. Today, I am writing to inform you about a
significant change within our community. With mixed emotions, we are saying
goodbye to our esteemed Programs Officer, Ruby D-Brown.
Ruby has been an invaluable member of our team, contributing her time,
energy, and expertise to the success of numerous programs and initiatives
during her time at Open Foundation West Africa. Her dedication and passion
have left a lasting impact on our community, and we are truly grateful for
the positive influence she has had on all of us.
As Ruby embarks on a new chapter in her career, we want to take this
opportunity to express our deepest gratitude for her outstanding
contributions. Her commitment to excellence and unwavering enthusiasm have
been instrumental in the success of many of our programs.
Thank you for your understanding and continued support as we navigate
through this transition. We remain committed to delivering exceptional
programs to our community.
Kind regards
Eugene Makafui Masiku,
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikimedia Morocco UG is excited to share with you a compelling read
that highlights the remarkable progress of our educational initiative,
“Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom in Morocco”. This article delves into
the significant strides we've made in advancing media and information
literacy through this innovative program.
📖 Read the Article Here: The rise of an evolution in Moroccan education
with Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/02/29/the-rise-of-an-evolution-in-moroccan-…>
This program is not just a testament to our commitment to education, but
also a reflection of the collective efforts of teachers, students, and
partners who believe in making education accessible and enriching for all.
Explore More About the Program:
- Program Reports: View reports of all previous versions
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_Classr…>
- Media Gallery: Access media from all previous editions
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reading_wikipedian_in_the_class…>
- YouTube Channel: Watch our program in action
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHDVwcRTTAw&list=PLG09ZKyGBTkA5ebDhRrgUSvhy…>
- More Diff Articles: Discover additional insights and stories about our
educational programs on Diff. AR
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/ar/?s=Mounir+Neddi> EN
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/?s=Mounir+Neddi> FR
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/fr/?s=Mounir+Neddi+LIRE>
Your thoughts, proposals, and initiatives are incredibly valuable to us. We
are keen on fostering a collaborative environment where ideas flourish and
lead to the betterment of our educational landscape. We invite you to dive
into the article, share your insights, and join us in this ongoing journey
to elevate education not only in Morocco but across the global community.
Your support and involvement are what make these achievements possible.
Warmest regards,
*Mounir Neddi*
From the Education Team
Wikimedia MA User Group
Dear Community members,
I hope you're doing well. Wiki Loves Folklore 2024 Office Hour Part Two,
where we'll be discussing how to make our jury processes better.
Event Details:
- Date: March 2nd, 2024
- Time: 4:00 pm UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1709395200
- Where: Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88637039784?pwd=AIGFVXsrMPB2piCVZ17acvacHuaZgR.1
What's Happening:
-
Introduction by Isaac Chabota Kanguya (Communication Officer): Isaac
will start things off with a quick 10-minute talk. He'll explain why having
fair and inclusive jury procedures is important for Wiki Loves Folklore.
-
Presentation by Suyash (Jury Coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore
2024): Next,
Suyash will speak for 20 minutes about "How to Set Up a Good Jury for Wiki
Loves Folklore Photography Contest." He'll help to choose good pictures
-
Presentation by Nokib Sarkar (Lead Tool Developer for WLF 2024): Then,
Nokib will talk for 20 minutes about "How We Judge Writing Contests using
Campwiz Tool." He will show how to use the jury functionality in campwiz.
-
Questions and Chat Time: After the presentations, we'll have 10 minutes
for you to ask questions and share your thoughts.
We think this event will be really helpful, and we'd love for you to be
there. To save your spot, just click here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2024_Office_Hour_2#Part…>
Thanks so much for all your support with Wiki Loves Folklore. We're looking
forward to chatting with you soon!
Best,
Isaac Kanguya
Communication Officer International Team WLF 2024
Chère communauté,
Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire est heureux de vous annoncer l'ouverture des
candidatures pour Fotamana 2024, notre programme spécial d'immersion dédié
aux leaders de communauté et porteurs de projets. Nous vous encourageons
vivement à postuler avant le *20 mars 2024, à 23 h 59*, en remplissant
le formulaire
disponible ici
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzyID_xlTaTJvPFB4vOtpK4qTZ0oZ1PXK…>
.
Initié par le groupe d'utilisateurs de Côte d'Ivoire, Fotamana
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotamana,_programme_d%27immersion_p…>
a pour ambition de partager notre fonctionnement, la dynamique de notre
communauté, et de mettre en avant nos expertises et acquis. Le programme
propose des formations sur les techniques d'organisation d'activités, des
ateliers de partage d'expériences et de renforcement des compétences des
participants.
Au-delà de son volet éducatif, Fotamana vise à favoriser la collaboration
entre les différentes communautés participantes. En encourageant le partage
de bonnes pratiques, le programme aspire à créer une dynamique où
l'ensemble du mouvement Wiki bénéficie de l'expérience collective
renforçant ainsi l'écosystème Wiki dans son ensemble.
Nous espérons vivement recevoir votre candidature et vous accueillir dans
le cadre de Fotamana,
--
Pauline *TRAORÉ*
*Communication. Marketing. Projets.*
Cultur'Ivoir <https://www.facebook.com/CulturIvoir> | Les jus d'Aby
<https://www.facebook.com/lesjusdaby> | Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire
<https://wikimedia.ci>
00225 07 08 84 95 31
Hello everyone,
Free Knowledge Africa is organising a contest; The 2024 Afrosport Writing
Contest!
Whether you're passionate about football, athletics, traditional games, or
any other sport, this is your chance to showcase your creativity and love
for sports.
Afrosports is an African games and sports writing contest on Wikipedia.
There is a huge content gap on the internet/Wikipedia as regards contents
on African Sports in English and other Languages.
This contest aims to bridge the African Sports content gap on Wikipedia by
writing articles about the historical and contemporary African Sports Scene
focusing on the English Wikipedia and 5 African languages; Wikipedia
(Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Swahili and Kinyarwanda.)
This is another opportunity to promote sports in your local community,
write about the favourite games and sports you grew up playing, translate
sport related articles on wikipedia to your local languages, or anything
related to the Sports scene in your country, join us on this exciting
venture!
Come join us on the 15th of March in The Afrosports Writing Contest. There
are amazing prizes to be won and also there will be training sessions.
Register here <https://bit.ly/Afrosport24>
Visit the project page on Meta
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Afrosports_Contest_20…>
to know more about the contest.
Remember, If we don’t write stories about Africa, who will?
Best regards,
Hopeabby
Associate, Free Knowledge Africa (FKA)
Dear Community members,
I hope you're doing well. We're excited to invite you to the upcoming Wiki
Loves Folklore 2024 Office Hour Part Two, where we'll be discussing how to
make our jury processes better.
Event Details:
- Date: March 2nd, 2024
- Time: 4:00 pm UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1709388000
- Where: Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88637039784?pwd=AIGFVXsrMPB2piCVZ17acvacHuaZgR.1
What's Happening:
-
Introduction by Isaac Chabota Kanguya (Communication Officer): Isaac
will start things off with a quick 10-minute talk. He'll explain why having
fair and inclusive jury procedures is important for Wiki Loves Folklore.
-
Presentation by Suyash (Jury Coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore
2024): Next,
Suyash will speak for 20 minutes about "How to Set Up a Good Jury for Wiki
Loves Folklore Photography Contest." He'll help to choose good pictures
-
Presentation by Nokib Sarkar (Lead Tool Developer for WLF 2024): Then,
Nokib will talk for 20 minutes about "How We Judge Writing Contests using
Campwiz Tool." He will show how to use the jury functionality in campwiz.
-
Questions and Chat Time: After the presentations, we'll have 10 minutes
for you to ask questions and share your thoughts.
We think this event will be really helpful, and we'd love for you to be
there. To save your spot, just click here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2024_Office_Hour_2#Part…>
Thanks so much for all your support with Wiki Loves Folklore. We're looking
forward to chatting with you soon!
Best,
Isaac Kanguya
Communication Officer International Team WLF 2024
Dear Organizers/Wikimedians,
We are excited to invite you to participate in this year's Wikiforhumanrights
campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>. The campaign
will run from May to June 2024 and we would love to have you on board.
On Wed 28th Feb - 3:00 PM UTC, we will be hosting an office hour to support
local organizers and individual participants who are
interested/participating in the campaign this year. During the Regional
office hours you will get to know all about the campaign updates for the
region, learn about available grant support, and how to use the new event
registration tool <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Event_Organizers> as
we pilot it in this year’s campaign.
-
Register for the office hour here for more updates: -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WikiforHumanRights_2024_Africa_Region…
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*Join Via Zoom *- https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89913611377
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Join the Africa Region Telegram for all organizers for support -
https://t.me/wikiforhumanrights2024Africa
-
WikiForHumanRights Telegram Group - https://t.me/+AG0yBeQpjNJhOTkx
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Add your event to the event table as soon as you can-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_Community_Events
To support your participation as an organizer, you can either include your
activity as part of your annual funds program (thus if you have an annual
community support fund) or apply for the next cycle of grant.
If you are applying for rapid grant, kindly note that only cycle 5 is open
before campaign start in May
-
Application deadline on *1 April*
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Review time from *2 April - 7 May*
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Decision announced from *11 May*
-
Processing and Disbursement from* 12 - 26 May*
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See more here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Timeline>*-*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Timeline
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Kindly note that there will not be any global writing contest this year!
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Organizers for this year's Wikiforhumanrights are to pilot the event
registration tool for their event. Find more details here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Event_Organizers
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Chers Wikimédiens,
Nous sommes ravis de vous inviter à participer à la campagne
Wikiforhumanrights de cette année. La campagne se déroulera de mai à juin
2024 et nous serions ravis de vous compter parmi nous.
Le mercredi 28 février, à 15h00 UTC, nous organiserons une heure de bureau
pour soutenir les organisateurs locaux et les participants individuels qui
sont intéressés/participent à la campagne cette année. Au cours de ces
heures de bureau régionales, vous serez informés des mises à jour de la
campagne pour la région, des subventions disponibles et de la manière
d'utiliser le nouvel outil d'enregistrement des événements que nous
pilotons dans le cadre de la campagne de cette année.
-
Inscrivez-vous à l'heure de bureau ici :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WikiforHumanRights_2024_Africa_Region…
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Rejoignez le groupe télégramme de la région Afrique pour tous les
organisateurs afin d'obtenir du soutien :
https://t.me/wikiforhumanrights2024Africa
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Groupe Telegram WikiForHumanRights : https://t.me/+AG0yBeQpjNJhOTkx
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Ajoutez votre événement au tableau des événements dès que possible :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_Community_Events
Pour soutenir votre participation en tant qu'organisateur, vous pouvez soit
inclure votre activité dans votre programme de financement annuel (donc si
vous disposez d'un fonds de soutien communautaire annuel), soit faire une
demande de subvention pour le prochain cycle.
Si vous demandez une subvention rapide, veuillez noter que seul le cycle 5
est ouvert avant le début de la campagne en mai.
-
Date limite de dépôt des demandes : 1er avril
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Examen du 2 avril au 7 mai
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Annonce de la décision à partir du 11 mai
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Traitement et décaissement du 12 au 26 mai
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Plus d'informations ici :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Timeline
NB :
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Veuillez noter qu'il n'y aura pas de concours international d'écriture
cette année !
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Les organisateurs de Wikiforhumanrights de cette année doivent piloter
l'outil d'enregistrement d'événement pour leur événement. Plus de détails
ici : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Event_Organizers
Please help spread the information in your communities.
Best regards,
On Behalf or WFHR Regional Coordination Team