Hello guys
We would like to invite all WLAf 2016 team leaders to answer our
Team Survey.
This year, we decided to put it directly on meta (you will not
get a google form).
LINK : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey
Please provide a feedback at the very earliest convenience
(strong emphasis on "earliest")
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FOR ALL Africa community members
Please directly head to the last question 3 below our team survey. The Theme for WLAf 2017
LINK :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey#The_Theme_for_WLAf_2017
Context: the committee approving the Projects Grant Requests is
meeting this week-end to make final decisions. You should know
that Wiki Loves Africa project is not yet approved for funding
(crossing fingers) and that our proposition for Wiki Loves Women
funding has been rejected. The committee did not consider it a
worth-supporting project. Disappointing. But fine.
Accordingly, we are boldly suggesting a theme that could be
somehow tweaked in such a manner that we could also address gender
gap issues through Wiki Loves Africa this year.
Our suggestion is to push for year 2017 the theme : PEOPLE AT
WORK.
More context may be found here in a few pages, which I recommand
you to have a look:
* A really cool tool made by Envel after a conference I gave
about Africa and women, based on my suspicion that we mostly had
biographies about porn and sport women (lol) :
http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
* Explanation about the tool :
https://www.lehir.net/a-tool-to-estimate-gender-gap-on-wikidata-and-wikipedia/
* And category tree ... :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_at_work_by_occupation
Of course, if that theme, PEOPLE AT WORK, is chosen, we would not
limit ourselves for women. Men at work, women at work,
transgendered at work, children at work (unfortunately) etc. would
be welcome.
What do you think ? Everyone feedback is welcome. This includes people who did not participate to WLAf previous years. And this can include AfroCROWD of course ;)
If there is enough support, there will not be a "call for themes
and votes" this year as we did last year. If we have a good enough
support, we will add the theme in the WLAf grant request asap.
Florence and Isla