Hello everyone,
The African Knowledge Initiative
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Africa_Knowledge_Initiat…>
(AKI),
seeks to leverage the Wikimedia tools and platforms to breed innovative
solutions to bridging the content gap on global digital knowledge networks.
This year Open Foundation West Africa’s <http://ofwafrica.org/> annual
writing contest the Africa Wiki Challenge was used as an avenue to help
achieve AKI’s goal.
The campaign was named the Africa Day Campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day_Campaign_2023> and themed "Africa
Free Continent Trade" to align with the Africa Union Day 2023 theme.
From the Campaign's Program Dashboard
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/africa_day_campaign_2023/ov…>,
we tracked a total of 20 Programs, with 473 editors, from 13 countries
contributing to 4000 articles
After months of intense and rigorous reviews by the Africa Day Contest
Jury, we are elated to announce the winners of the Africa Day Campaign 2023.
Congratulations to the winners of the campaign.
Winners
Winner- User:Muhammed Idriss Criteria from Nigeria- 502 new articles in
Hausa Wikipedia
2nd Winner - User:Gwanki from Nigeria- 183 new articles in Hausa Wikipedia
3rd Winner- User:Charbel1719 Benin - 75 new articles in French Wikipedia
Top Female Contributor- User:Mercyjamb123 - 66 new articles in Igbo
Wikipedia
We are super grateful to our international jury team who worked
effortlessly to ensure that the winners were identified.
International Jury
User: Azogbonon - Benin
User: Yaw Tuba - Ghana
User: Anani A. George- Ghana
User: Bile_rene - Cameroon
User: Justine Msechu -Tanzania
User: Memoriesghana -Ghana
User: Kwaku Berko- Ghana
To all our partners, local organizers, and editors, we appreciate your
efforts in making this campaign a success.
Kind Regards,
Eugene Masiku
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Eugene Makafui Masiku,
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
Hi all,
I'm following up on this message about the Community Resilience and
Sustainability Conversation Hour happening in August.
You are invited to the quarterly Conversation hour led by Maggie Dennis,
Vice President of Community Resilience and Sustainability on 31 August at
17:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1693501212>.
Maggie and others from the team will discuss Trust and Safety, the
Universal Code of Conduct, Committee Support, and Human Rights.
If you are a Wikimedian in good standing (not Foundation or community
banned), write to let us know you will be attending the conversation and
share your questions. More information about attending this conversation
hour
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability/Con…>
and notes from previous conversation hours can be found on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CR%26S_meetings>.
Best,
--
Jackie Koerner (she/her) Communication Specialist, Community Resilience and
Sustainability Location: Midwestern US (UTC-5)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone!
It is 31 August, the day before the start of Wiki Loves Monuments
<https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/> in 30 countries! In about 10 hours
from now the first country will arrive in September and their Wiki Loves
Monuments 2023 will start, and several more countries are scheduled to
start the competition in October.
- Interested to participate in the photo competition? Have a look at the
participating countries for 2023: your pictures do not have to be taken in
the month of the competition, it's the upload date that counts!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Landin…
- Interested in organizing Wiki Loves Monuments in your country? There
is still time! You can pick any range of *30 or 31 days within the
period of September-October 2023* as your upload dates. If your country
is already in the list linked above, please contact the organizers at their
listed way of contact and ask them how you can help.
All important deadlines and details for organizers are in the 2023
competition announcement:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2023/Organi…
Have fun with Wiki Loves Monuments! :-)
On behalf of the international team,
Ciell
This was the title of a message on the Help Desk of the Dutch Wikipedia
earlier this month. The title refers to the fundraising e-mail a reader of
Wikipedia received so-called with a message from Jimmy Wales, and this
reader got very concerned about what he saw as this e-mail looks like to be
a scam or spam. The reader asked us: "But isn't this a strange way to
collect money? This given the many warnings for not clicking on links in
strange e-mails as those are often fraudulent (etc.), this does not seem
very reliable to me."
It seems that the e-mail came truly from WMF, but the concerns of this
reader are something to be aware of.
Another user writes he receives fake e-mails almost every day for all kinds
of "services" and "requests" which do not feel trustworthy, the same as for
this e-mail from WMF.
The reaction of another user: please throw this kind of dubious e-mails
away quickly, such e-mails can't be trusted.
Someone else writes: That donation campaign is very American and the
volunteers behind the Dutch Wikipedia have been calling for years against
the international Wikimedia organization that this way of raising funds
does not work in the Netherlands and Belgium, among others.
That last part is I think the essence, for more than a decade WMF organises
the fundraising, for more than a decade the Dutch community complains about
the way/style/etc of the fundraising, and for more than a decade it is
tradition that WMF does do little with the feedback and makes the same
mistakes year after year after year...
Disappointed greetings,
Romaine
My Fellow Wikimedians
As we lowered the curtain for Wikimania 2023 Singapore, Online and
Satellite, we ask for your valuable time to share your images and videos
related to Wikimania 2023 on Wikimedia Commons, our free media repository.
By uploading your images and videos to Wikimedia Commons, you are helping
to document the history and diversity of the Wikimedia movement, as well as
enriching the knowledge and culture of humanity. Your contributions are
greatly appreciated by millions of readers and editors around the world.
To upload your images and videos to Wikimedia Commons, you can use the *Upload
Wizard*, a simple and user-friendly tool that guides you through the
process. You can also use the *Commons app*, a mobile application that
allows you to upload images from your smartphone or tablet. Please make
sure to use the license on Wikimedia Commons and Wikimania Photography
policy when uploading your files.
We encourage you to use the [[category:Wikimania 2023]] when uploading your
images and videos related to Wikimania 2023. This will help us to organize
and showcase your files on the Wikimania 2023 wiki and other platforms. You
can also add other relevant categories and descriptions to your files to
make them more accessible and useful for other users.
We also encourage you to write your story as a blog, vlog, Social media
posts or at . For social media, please use @wikimedia.conference to tag on
Facebook or Instagram, @wikimania on X (twitter).
We thank you for your generous assistance and support for Wikimania 2023
and the Wikimedia movement. We hope to see you at the next in-person and
hybrid conferences this year and the 19th edition of Wikimania in Kraków,
Poland hosted by the Central and Eastern European Wikimedians where we will
celebrate our achievements, share our experiences, and learn from each
other.
There is also a Wikimania 2023 survey
at https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/682942
We appreciate your feedback so we know where we did great and which ones we
would tell the next host.
Kind regards,
*Butch Bustria*
Event lead, Wikimania 2023
Dear all,
After almost 6 and half years in post, I am stepping down as the Project
Manager of Wikimedia Community Ireland
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland> from this
week. It has been a joy and a privilege to be the first staff member
for WCI, and I am excited to see how my successor will grow the
group further in the coming years. We hope to introduce them to the
community very soon.
I have had the pleasure of onboarding the second-ever staff member of WCI
this past month, Amy Coe. Amy is our Irish Language Officer, and will be
working with the Irish language community in Ireland and beyond to
strengthen and develop Vicipeid and the Irish language across Wikimedia
projects. You can contact her at: oifigeach.gaeilge(a)wikimedia.ie
I will be returning to my former role as a volunteer with WCI, and I am
looking forward to continuing to work on our various photography
competitions and supporting the new Project Manager in their work. WCI is
10 years old next year, and I'm excited to celebrate that milestone with
you all!
Thank you to everyone who has helped me and WCI over the past years. It was
a real joy to meet many of you at events (in-person and virtual!), and to
count so many as good friends. If you are ever visiting Ireland, please
reach out!
Slán agus beannacht,
Rebecca (User:Smirkybec)
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Wikimedia Community Ireland
Chair - Shannon Eichelberger
Project Manager - Rebecca O'Neill
Online: Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie>
On Twitter: @WikimediaIE <https://twitter.com/WikimediaIE>
On Facebook: Wikimedia Ireland <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIreland>
On Instagram: wikimediaie <https://www.instagram.com/wikimediaie/>
On Meetup: Wikimedia Community Ireland Meetup
<https://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-Community-Ireland-Meetup/>
Please find the link to the annual report of les sans pagEs [1] (this year in French). Help for translation is more than welcome if anyone feels motivated. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Les_sans_pagEs] /Report_2022/fr
Warm regards from Geneva in sawitzerland !
Natacha Rault
Dear Rebecca
It has been a great pleasure getting to know you over the past few years.
Your commitment to the work of Wikimedia in Ireland and beyond, as well as
your deep knowledge and understanding of your local community, has been an
inspiration. Wishing you all the very best in your future endeavours, and
I'm glad to hear you will remain involved as a volunteer.
I have no doubt that many of my colleagues will also want to wish you well;
but on behalf of Wikimedia UK, thank you and all the very best.
Lucy
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> week. It has been a joy and a privilege to be the first staff member
> for WCI, and I am excited to see how my successor will grow the
> group further in the coming years. We hope to introduce them to the
> community very soon.
>
> I have had the pleasure of onboarding the second-ever staff member of WCI
> this past month, Amy Coe. Amy is our Irish Language Officer, and will be
> working with the Irish language community in Ireland and beyond to
> strengthen and develop Vicipeid and the Irish language across Wikimedia
> projects. You can contact her at: oifigeach.gaeilge(a)wikimedia.ie
>
> I will be returning to my former role as a volunteer with WCI, and I am
> looking forward to continuing to work on our various photography
> competitions and supporting the new Project Manager in their work. WCI is
> 10 years old next year, and I'm excited to celebrate that milestone with
> you all!
>
> Thank you to everyone who has helped me and WCI over the past years. It was
> a real joy to meet many of you at events (in-person and virtual!), and to
> count so many as good friends. If you are ever visiting Ireland, please
> reach out!
>
> Slán agus beannacht,
> Rebecca (User:Smirkybec)
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Still in the joy of International Youth Day 2023!!
Hi Everyone,
I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!
Are you a lover of anime, cartoons, comic books, television series, and
video games? We are delighted to let you know that The #WikiLovesCosplay
Contest is on.
Join us in the fun of cosplaying your favourite characters and documenting
images of them on Wikimedia Commons from August 16 to September 30, 2023,
and win amazing prizes. 🏆
See more information on how you can participate here -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Cosplay
Upload your images directly through the link- https://w.wiki/7KDt
Let's bring characters to life together!!
#Cosplay #CaptureTheCosmos
Cheers
Wasi