Hello Asaf, I believe the Wikimedia Ghana User Group would be happy in having you over again.
We would discuss and revert accordingly. Best, Justice. On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:27 PM, drex drex <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy to read this offer to get more infos and inclusion to the Wikimedia > adventure. We would love to have you too in Gambia for our planning group > and initiative. > Any info required, let me know. > Boubacarr COLLEY > Planning group Gambia > > > On 27 Feb 2018 19:23, "Isaac Olatunde" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Asaf, >> >> Thanks for your offer of help. Our community, Wikimedia User Group >> Nigeria will be glad to have you here in Nigeria. We will discuss this in >> our next meeting and revert accordingly. >> >> Regards, >> >> Isaac >> >> On Feb 27, 2018 8:15 PM, "Asaf Bartov" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Some of you know me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce >>> myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and >>> work in the Community Resources (formerly called Grantmaking) team. While >>> I handled grants in the past, I am now working on capacity-building >>> activities with emerging communities, in a program called Community >>> Capacity Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the >>> Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have run across on >>> the Wikimedia-l in the past few weeks. >>> >>> I write today to ask whether your community would be interested in >>> discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan Africa by me, with several >>> related goals in each country I'd visit, including: >>> * a strategy/planning workshop with the group of active contributors. >>> This would build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also >>> integrate thinking about the broad goals identified in the movement >>> strategy project's phase 1 (presented at Wikimania in Montreal in August >>> 2017.) >>> * Meetings with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed >>> helpful) >>> * Public speaking (if deemed helpful) >>> * capacity-building workshops for your community members, on topics such >>> as (I'll need your help in determining which of these would be useful): >>> ** Free licenses, non-free licenses, copyright, and OTRS (or: How to >>> contribute to the Wikimedia Commons) >>> ** Composing encyclopedic prose from a neutral point of view (NPOV) >>> ** Negotiating notability and reliability requirements on Wikipedia >>> ** Conflict management for Wikipedians >>> ** Group facilitation skills >>> ** Introduction to Wikidata >>> ** Querying Wikidata with SPARQL >>> ** Modern tools demonstration >>> ** How to build a partnership >>> ** etc. >>> >>> Some logistical details: >>> >>> *If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia Conference and before >>> Wikimania, i.e. between late April and early July. >>> * If I come, I would probably stay in Africa for between two and three >>> weeks total, to have enough time for the above in several countries, and to >>> accommodate your needs and availability. >>> * I will have a budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers >>> together >>> * No expenses are expected from your group's budget. Only your time and >>> cooperation. >>> >>> Please take some time to discuss this idea and let me know if your >>> community is sufficiently interested that we should discuss it further, >>> over email or a video call. If you feel this would not be very helpful, or >>> you really can't accommodate any additional activities before July this >>> year, *please* don't feel obligated to respond. I am genuinely interested >>> in helping, and there are other communities I could be supporting with this >>> budget and time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise! :) >>> >>> I look forward to hearing from you. >>> >>> Asaf >>> >>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD >>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> >> > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > -- Justice Okai-Allotey Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey |Avenger - Urithi Media Limited <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>| |Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>| |Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-name> | Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> | Twitter: @Owula_Kpakpo <https://twitter.com/Owula_Kpakpo> | |Website: wyzzlewany.wordpress.com|
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