[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikidata] Save the date - Wikidata Leveling Up Days, April 5-7 and 12-14

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Mark your calendars for the first-ever Wikidata events series geared toward
newcomers.

-- Forwarded message -
From: Léa Lacroix 
Date: Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Save the date - Wikidata Leveling Up Days, April 5-7
and 12-14
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project 


Hello everyone,

The Wikidata Leveling Up Days
 are a
series of online events and a collection of useful contents to help people
get on board with Wikidata. The events will take place from April 5th to
7th and from April 12th to 14th, and will include a wide variety of
presentations, workshops and discussions covering the basics of Wikidata:
get started, browse and query Wikidata, enhance your editing experience,
ensure data quality, and connect Wikidata with sister projects.

The event will give the occasion to both new and seasoned editors to get
together and exchange ideas and tips. Some sessions are already planned in
the schedule, but the program is open: community trainers and organizers
are welcome to schedule their own self-organized sessions, at the time that
suits them best, and in the language that would be accessible to their
peers. If you’re interested in scheduling your own session, you’ll find
guidance on this page

.

The Leveling Up Days are also a collection of introduction videos, recorded
in advance with experienced Wikidata editors, that will soon be available
online. We will make sure that the videos are available ahead of the event,
so people can watch them at their own pace. The videos will include
translatable captions, so you will be able to help us make this useful
content accessible to a wide range of Wikidata newcomers.

The online event is open to everyone without registration, but if you’re
interested in attending, feel free to sign up here
.
You can also join our help desk channel

where we will have Q sessions.

And last but not least: please help us reach out to people who may be
interested in learning more about Wikidata: feel free to share or transfer
this message to the channels, mailing-lists and groups where it could be
relevant.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

See you around at the Leveling Up Days!
Best,
-- 
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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[African Wikimedians] Re: [Wikidata] Wikidata’s 10th birthday in October: call for community events

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Get ready to celebrate 10 years of Wikidata together :D

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 8:54 AM Léa Lacroix  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> As you may know, Wikidata went live on 29 October 2012 ; in 2022, *we are
> celebrating 10 years of Wikidata together!* We would like to organize
> celebration events all around the world, and to create a huge network of 
> *decentralized,
> local and community-led events*, that will take place onsite or online,
> around October 2022.
>
> The goal of these birthday celebrations are to celebrate the achievements
> of the community, to bring people together, and also to talk about Wikidata
> to the rest of the world in order to get more people onboard. In various
> areas of the world, people get together to organize plenty of different
> birthday events: meetups, workshops, discussions, live streams, editing
> campaigns… *How about you get involved in organizing such an event with
> your local community?*
> --
>
> *How to organize an event?*
>
> On the Tenth Birthday
>  
> page,
> you will find resources to learn how to plan and schedule an event. You
> will find *a few tips to get started
> *
> , *some ideas of events formats
> *
>  and *the visual kit
> *
>  to
> create your own communication material.
>
> If you are interested in organizing an event or an activity for Wikidata’s
> 10th birthday, we recommend you *get in touch with other organizers
> *
>  to
> get inspired by their experiences and ask for support if needed.
> --
>
> *How to get funding for your activities?*
>
> WMF and Wikimedia Deutschland are collaborating on a special Rapid Fund
> campaign for Wikidata’s birthday. If you need financial support to run an
> event, you can now send an application to receive *funding up to 5,000
> USD*.
>
> Feel free to check *the details of the funding campaign, eligibility
> criteria and supported activities
> *.
> The program covers a wide range of costs that can be funded: renting space
> or equipment, internet connection, transport and accommodation, food and
> refreshments, printing merchandise and communication materials, prizes for
> contests, and more.
>
> To make sure that your application is processed in time for your event,
> don’t wait too long to submit your application! The Wikidata birthday
> events are typically held between mid-September and mid-November, and you
> should send your application at least *45 days before your activity
> starts*.
>
> If you have questions or need support to apply for funding, feel free to get
> in touch
> 
>  -
> we will also organize calls for organizers starting at the end of August.
> --
>
> We will post news about the Wikidata birthday regularly on this talk page
>  and on
> social channels, as more exciting projects are coming soon: a collaborative
> celebration video and some blog posts about Wikidata.
>
> If you have any questions, if you want to get involved in Wikidata’s 10th
> birthday or if you have suggestions, feel free to reach out to me.
>
> Best,
> --
> Léa Lacroix
> Community Engagement Coordinator
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
> Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
> 10963 Berlin
> www.wikimedia.de
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
>
> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
> unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt
> für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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[African Wikimedians] Help Us Check Mismatches On Wikidata Against Third Party Databases

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Hello friends,

Wikidata is becoming too big to monitor individual data points
continuously. Additionally, keeping Wikidata’s data in sync with external
databases is hard and existing workflows are haphazard and one-off.

The Wikidata development team is interested in making it easier to compare
Wikidata’s data with other databases in order to flag mismatches so that
editors can more easily find and work on them.

We would love to talk to interested persons who've had some experience
working on reconciling mismatches between Wikidata and other databases, to
learn how you discover inconsistencies and the process you take to fix
them, to enable us to understand your needs in the context of your work. The
discussion will happen in English at a time depending on your availability.

If you’re interested in participating, please let me know and I will
contact you as soon as possible with the next steps. In case a call may be
difficult, we're also happy to receive your responses via text (I'll paste
the questions below).

Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Thank you so much for your support,

--

*Questions:*

   1. Would you like to give us an overview on how you work with the data
   on Wikidata, specifically with a focus around comparing the data with other
   databases?
   2. How do you precisely detect the mismatches? Can you guide us through
   the process? What kind of tools are you mainly using for comparing the data
   or supporting your work in this area?
   3. What are the valuable lessons that you learned or that you think we
   should know about?
   4. Given that there are many databases out there, how would you suggest
   we prioritize and focus and why?
   5. Is there any additional information (links, documentation, articles)
   that you would like to share? Are there people/organizations that you would
   suggest we reach out to?

--

Mohammed Sadat

*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
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[African Wikimedians] Wikimedia Foundation Grants:Project/Global_Open_Initiative/Wikidata_GLAMs_Campaign, _Ghana proposal

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Hi friends, 

We’re proposing a Wikimedia Foundation Project Grant to do Wikidata GLAM 
outreach in Ghana.

Please check it out and endorse it if you support it.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Global_Open_Initiative/Wikidata_GLAMs_Campaign,_Ghana

Regards,

-Masssly 
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[African Wikimedians] Request for Rapid Grants Comments: Global Open Initiative/Parliament of Ghana challenge/Sixth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Hi friends,
I'm inviting comments on Meta for a contest proposal to add/improve Wikidata 
and Wikipedia content about Ghanaian legislators.
Link to the grants page is at:
 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Global_Open_Initiative/Parliament_of_Ghana_challenge/Sixth_Parliament_of_the_Fourth_Republic_of_Ghana
 
It is a follow-up to: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Masssly/Parliament_of_Ghana/Seventh_Parliament_of_the_Fourth_Republic_of_Ghana
Thank you.
-Mohammed
[[User:Masssly]]
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[African Wikimedians] Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse - GOI Foundation OER Network(GOIFON) - Community notification

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Dear friends,

I’m happy to inform you about the Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse application 
by Global Open Initiative.

We are now accepting endorsements. Please find the link at: 
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Greenhouse/teamsubmissions/GOIFON

Thank you for your time.

User:Masssly






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Re: [African Wikimedians] Grant proposal: Project X

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Hello Flo,

I couldn’t think of a better name at the time, but I do agree that Project 
Corruption sounds a lot better.

And of course, its not related to porn :-)

-Masssly

From: Florence Devouard
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 10:01 PM
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Grant proposal: Project X

Hello Masssly

A question comes up to my mind... why that name Project X ?

At first, I thought it was related to the WikiProject template developped on 
the English Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X

Then I thought of porn... uh...

I think Corruption is an awesome idea. Why not call it Project Corruption ?

Flo
Le 11/04/2018 à 23:14, Mohammed Sadat Abdulai a écrit :
Hi everyone,
I'm announcing a proposal I posted about improving Wikipedia content related to 
corruption, and an opportunity to experiment with direct mentorship of less 
experience Wikipedia editors.
Please see the proposal here: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Masssly/Wikimedia_Ghana_Usergroup/Project_X
Feel free to ask questions. Feedback and comments are welcome. 
Thanks 
-[[User:Masssly]]



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[African Wikimedians] Grant proposal: Project X

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Hi everyone,
I'm announcing a proposal I posted about improving Wikipedia content related to 
corruption, and an opportunity to experiment with direct mentorship of less 
experience Wikipedia editors.
Please see the proposal here: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Masssly/Wikimedia_Ghana_Usergroup/Project_X
Feel free to askquestions. Feedback and comments are welcome. 

Thanks 

-[[User:Masssly]]
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Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Indaba 2018 - partial report

[Mohammed Sadat Abdulai]

Hi Leila,

Thank you for reaching out to this mailing list.

Indeed, there are very few African Wikimedia researchers and I think you asked 
questions in your presentation that deserve plenty of attention, which I 
believe will kick start conversations to address what you asked.

“What is our strategy for increasing research activity on Wikimedia projects in 
Africa?
What can we do to inspire, empower, and train the next generation of 
researchers in Africa?”

-Masssly

From: Leila Zia
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:51 PM
To: african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Indaba 2018 - partial report

Hi all,

My name is Leila and I'm a senior research scientist at WMF and the technical 
lead for the Research team. I gave a talk in Research Showcase session in Wiki 
Indaba over the weekend and am sharing with you the notes from that session at 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_reports#Wiki_Indaba_2018

I hope you find them helpful. And if you were in the session and I 
misunderstood a conversation, please call it out. :)

I'm looking forward to working more closely with you in the coming years. 
Please feel free to reach out with questions or comments.

Best,
Leila

--
Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
​, Lead​

Wikimedia Foundation

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