[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] #NETIQUETTE for mailing-lists (WAS: [Wikimania-l] Re: Confirming being re-subscribed)

2023-01-31 Thread Isaac Olatunde
I think we need this here also. Regards. Isaac -- Forwarded message - From: Željko Blaće Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023, 14:49 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] #NETIQUETTE for mailing-lists (WAS: [Wikimania-l] Re: Confirming being re-subscribed) To: Wikimedia Mailing List Forwarding this as

[African Wikimedians] Re: [Commons-l] Re: Results from sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest

2022-12-21 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Thanks for the insights Florence & Ciell. Just to add, all the winning photos are already in use on Wikipedia articles. This suggests that they are valued not only by the Commons community but also by the millions of our encyclopedia readers. Regards. Isaac On Wed, 21 Dec 2022, 09:21 Ciell

[African Wikimedians] Leadership Development Working Group is ready for community feedback!

2022-09-16 Thread Isaac Olatunde
are missing in the draft definition or you can check if the definition applies to all cultural, linguistic, community or other contexts of the movement and share your thoughts with us. Together, let's celebrate the movement's diverse and distinctive leadership! Thank you. Isaac Olatunde & Goody Igna

[African Wikimedians] Re: Welcoming the WiR and next AKI Community Conversations

2022-08-12 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Congratulations to my friend, Ceslause and many thanks to Florence and Isla for discovering this vibrant, and hardworking young man. I have had a good working relationship with Ceslause, and am excited about this appointment. Good luck, Ceslause. Isaac On Fri, 12 Aug 2022, 20:16 Felix Nartey,

[African Wikimedians] Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021 Announces result

2021-12-09 Thread Isaac Olatunde
media_community>, are used on Wikipedia article pages where they are lacking. We want to thank everyone involved in the planning and all the participants for their works. Regards. Isaac Olatunde ___ African-Wikimedians mailing list -- african-wikimedia

[African Wikimedians] Update: 2020 WPWP Campaign Performance Evaluation Report

2021-03-30 Thread Isaac Olatunde
utions in the maiden edition <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos> and we look forward to more participation this year. We will provide additional updates before Mid-April. With best regards Isaac Olatunde, Coordinator and Project Manager, WPWP Campaign.

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Events] WikiCred Tech Demo Hour September 10, 12pm ET

2020-09-09 Thread Isaac Olatunde
ntees will join us to present their work for 5 mins each followed by a Q from the attendees. Let me know if you have any questions about the project or the event. Isaac Olatunde For: Ahmed & WikiCred Team wikicred.org ___ African-Wikimedians mailing li

[African Wikimedians] Request: WPWP Campaign International Jury

2020-09-07 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hello everyone, The WPWP Campaign International Team is looking for experienced Wikipedia volunteers to help coordinate the WPWP Campaign International Jury. If you are interested in joining the Jury, please email the organizing team at wpwp-organiz...@lists.wikimedia.org. Thank you. Isaac

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Volunteers sought; Interim Trust and Safety Case Review Committee

2020-07-06 Thread Isaac Olatunde
FYI. Isaac -- Forwarded message - From: Maggie Dennis Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020, 16:21 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Volunteers sought; Interim Trust and Safety Case Review Committee To: Wikimedia Mailing List Hello, all. Nutshell: this is a call for applications to volunteer for the

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: Your message to African-Wikimedians awaits moderator approval

2020-07-02 Thread Isaac Olatunde
-- Forwarded message - From: Erica Litrenta Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 6:13 PM Subject: Re:Announcing a new sister project! Welcome, Abstract Wikipedia To: Cc: Dumisani Ndubane , Nkansah Rexford < seanmav...@gmail.com>, Hello. (Apologies for cross-posting, and that you are

Re: [African Wikimedians] Our nominee for Movement Strategy

2020-06-18 Thread Isaac Olatunde
strategy. I have no iota of doubt in Isla's competency, temperament, judgment, and effective representation of the African Wikimedia community at the movement strategy team. On this note, I nominate Isla Haddow-Flood to represent us at the Strategy Design Group. Thank you. Isaac Olatunde On Wed

Re: [African Wikimedians] WikiIndaba 2020 postponed until November 2021

2020-05-23 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Thank you for the update, Geoffrey. This is definitely a good decision. . With kind regards Isaac. On Sat, 23 May 2020, 15:15 Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, < wikiuga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > As a part of the Wikimedia Movement’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 >

[African Wikimedians] WPWP:Call for Participation

2020-04-12 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Scroll down for English... Chère communauté Wikimedia africaine, Nous vous invitons à participer à Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP), un nouveau concours mondial qui se déroulera de juillet à août 2020: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos Les participants

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 12, Issue 7

2020-02-13 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hello Ingo, Your question is in order but I'd like to point out that Wikipedia username or editing was not a criteria for this job and Rudolph don't have to be a Wikipedia editor to take up this role. It's an added advantage but not just a requirement. Of course Rudolph could provide their

[African Wikimedians] Happy New Year and Welcome to a New Decade

2019-12-31 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Dear African Wikimedians, Happy new year and happy public domain day. Wishing you all the best in this new year. Regards Isaac ___ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org

[African Wikimedians] We invite you to join Wiki Loves Africa Mailing List

2019-11-28 Thread Isaac Olatunde
tional photography contest. Please click here <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesafrica> to subscribe to the mailing list using your email address. Thank you Isaac Olatunde On behalf of Wiki Loves Africa Organizing Team. ___

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56

2019-11-16 Thread Isaac Olatunde
do they help? > > Hopefully ISA can help to save a bit of that material. I gladly do my > share (if I get the language setting to Swahili working) > > Cheers, Ingo > > > > Am 13.11.2019 um 09:15 schrieb Isaac Olatunde: > > Hello Ingo, > > It would be counterprodu

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 57

2019-11-14 Thread Isaac Olatunde
You are welcome, Gabriel. Regards Isaac On Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 9:54 AM Gabriel Amuzu Hello Isaac, > > The question have been perfectly answer by you. > I am clear on everything you mentioned in the explanation. > Thank you very much. > > Regards. > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2019

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 57

2019-11-13 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hello Ingo, Respectfully, allow me to disagree with you that images collected from WLA are not used on Wikipedia because they are useless. Like every other photos contributed to Commons, most WLA photos are not used on Wikipedia articles for multiple reasons. It's an extremely boring task for

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 57

2019-11-13 Thread Isaac Olatunde
st, Vol 11, Issue 56 (Ingo Koll) >>2. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 >> (WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria) >>3. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 (Isaac Olatunde) >>4. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 >>

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 57

2019-11-13 Thread Isaac Olatunde
st, Vol 11, Issue 56 (Ingo Koll) >>2. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 >> (WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria) >>3. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 (Isaac Olatunde) >>4. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56 >>

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56

2019-11-12 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hello Ingo, It would be counterproductive to not accept images that are not properly described or categorized. Most participants of WLX (WLA, WLE, WLM) are new people who probably does not understand the importance of proper description and categorizations. Thus, if the organizers of WLA has come

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikipedia-l] Join the Months of African Cinema Global Edit-a-Thon

2019-09-24 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Dear Antolepore, It does seem that you want something fixed on Wikipedia but I am not quiet sure your current approach would be productive. Please do not start thinking that any of the people on this list would obey your order. I'd encourage you to consider your tone and immediately stop the

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Indaba 2019: Scholarship Application Reopened for Female Participants

2019-08-24 Thread Isaac Olatunde
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, August 23, 2019 3:57 PM, Isaac Olatunde < > reachout2is...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Apology for any mix up. Find below the correct link to the application > form > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXaKadlKKGyH

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Indaba 2019: Scholarship Application Reopened for Female Participants

2019-08-23 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Apology for any mix up. Find below the correct link to the application form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXaKadlKKGyH0O6-UFVyJdWZ_yDVXfQCYAWuk_14dZ_PuGsw/viewform?usp=pp_url Isaac On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 2:07 PM Isaac Olatunde Dear Community members, > > This is to info

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Indaba 2019: Scholarship Application Reopened for Female Participants

2019-08-23 Thread Isaac Olatunde
23, 2019 3:11 PM, drex drex wrote: > > Thanks you Isac, > I want to know if male can still apply too? Just to be sure... > Thanks > > On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:07 Isaac Olatunde, > wrote: > >> Dear Community members, >> >> This is to inform you that we have r

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Indaba 2019: Scholarship Application Reopened for Female Participants

2019-08-23 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Dear Drex, This is a supplentary application opened to only female African wikimedians. Thank you. Isaac On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 2:13 AM drex drex wrote: > Thanks you Isac, > I want to know if male can still apply too? Just to be sure... > Thanks > > On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 13:07

[African Wikimedians] Wiki Indaba 2019: Scholarship Application Reopened for Female Participants

2019-08-23 Thread Isaac Olatunde
. The application form is attached herein. [1] Females from African communities are highly encouraged to apply. Applications close 30th August 2019. Please let us know if you require any further information. Regards. Isaac Olatunde For: Scholarship Review Committee and Wiki Indaba 2019 Team

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa 2019 winners announced!!!

2019-07-12 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Lovely photos. There had been some incredible photos contributed his year. Kudos to the contributors of these photos, the jury and the organizers of this contest Regards, Isaac On Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 8:25 PM Asaf Bartov Wonderful photos! Congratulations to the winners and to the organizers. >

Re: [African Wikimedians] Happy Africa Day: keyboards for all the languages of Africa

2019-05-25 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hello Amir, Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa discussion

2019-04-30 Thread Isaac Olatunde
ch of the submitters or participants is more > difficult to quantify, the information is calculated from this query base: > https://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/35493 (in this case, to represent the > participants in the 2019 contest) > > warmest > Isla > > On 30 Apr 2019, at 17:55, Is

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa discussion

2019-04-30 Thread Isaac Olatunde
It is up to all of us to decide what we want to do with it. Perhaps let's > talk about its future …? > > Warmest > Isla > > > On 30 Apr 2019, at 00:49, Jos Damen wrote: > > > > Apologies. This might be better: > > > > Category "Wiki_Loves_Africa" has

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest,

2019-04-29 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hello Jos, This thread is about "Wiki Loves Africa" and "WikiAfrica" is not the same as "Wiki Loves Africa". I am not sure how your statistics on " WikiAfrica" might be useful. Regards, Isaac On Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 11:30 PM Jos Damen Dear all, > > Some figures: > > Category "WikiAfrica" has

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 10, Issue 78 Wiki Loves Africa 2019 funding

2018-12-02 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hello Everyone, I'll like to point out that images does not magically become unusable simply because they are not used on Wikipedia articles. Wikimedia Commons is a repository for hosting images that are realistically useful for educational purposes and this does not include images that are in

Re: [African Wikimedians] Grant Proposal: Twi Wikipedia Translatathon

2018-08-04 Thread Isaac Olatunde
he Nigeria team as well. On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, 02:19 Isaac Olatunde, wrote: > Hi Zage, > > I have endorsed this project. Really, African languages Wikipedia needs > urgent attention. > > Please, feel free to reach out to me if you need any help on and off-wiki. > > Regards, &

Re: [African Wikimedians] Grant Proposal: Twi Wikipedia Translatathon

2018-08-03 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Zage, I have endorsed this project. Really, African languages Wikipedia needs urgent attention. Please, feel free to reach out to me if you need any help on and off-wiki. Regards, Isaac On Aug 3, 2018 11:33 PM, "Ursula Zage" wrote: Thank you Raphael On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:30 PM

Re: [African Wikimedians] Grant Proposal: Twi Wikipedia Translatathon

2018-08-03 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Zage, This is a good idea. I'll like to endorse when you finally move it to "proposed". Goodluck, Isaac On Aug 3, 2018 7:19 PM, "Ursula Zage" wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm announcing a proposal I posted about improving the Twi Wikipedia, > currently the only active local language Wikipedia

Re: [African Wikimedians] About my WISCom election

2018-07-14 Thread Isaac Olatunde
t; That is why I will propose to each African user group a list of such active > users so that they can recruit them. > Yours Sincerely, > Houcemeddine Turki > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 19:52:31 +0100 > From: Isaac Olatunde > To:

Re: [African Wikimedians] About my WISCom election

2018-07-14 Thread Isaac Olatunde
groups or chapters. Regards, Isaac On Jul 14, 2018 7:52 PM, "Isaac Olatunde" wrote: > Hi Cscsi, > > You wrote "As a first effort, I will send to each user groups the lists > of users that should be recruited by them." What does this implies? > > Thank you,

Re: [African Wikimedians] Contents of African-Wikimedians digest, Wiki-Indaba Steering Committee

2018-07-14 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Folks at WIScom, It's been more than two weeks since Ingo requested clarifications on the structure of the steering committee. Can someone from the committee respond to these request for clarification? It's unwise to keep mute when a legitimate questions are asked. I look forward to reading

Re: [African Wikimedians] About my WISCom election

2018-07-14 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Cscsi, You wrote "As a first effort, I will send to each user groups the lists of users that should be recruited by them." What does this implies? Thank you, Isaac On Jul 14, 2018 3:42 PM, "Houcemeddine A. Turki" wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > I thank you for your efforts. I thank you for

Re: [African Wikimedians] African language Wikipedia update

2018-07-02 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Ian, Thanks for this update. African language Wikipedia generally needs serious attention and we really need to engage native speakers of those language to keep it running. In the last few months, the activity on Yoruba Wikipedia focus primarily on maintenance, including rewriting of

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki-Indaba Steering Committee (WISCom)

2018-06-10 Thread Isaac Olatunde
ce on the link here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2014 > > Kind regards, > Bobby Shabangu > > > On Sunday, June 10, 2018, Isaac Olatunde wrote: > >> Hi Zeineb, >> >> Thanks for sharing this information. However, I do have some questions >>

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki-Indaba Steering Committee (WISCom)

2018-06-10 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Zeineb, Thanks for sharing this information. However, I do have some questions and comments. I have listed them below. 1. You wrote "Support Wikimedians within The African continent who wants to run Wikimedia projects but don't know where to start or how to go about doing that, as well as

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Update on Wikimedia partnerships

2018-02-17 Thread Isaac Olatunde
FYI, Isaac -- Forwarded message -- From: "Samantha Lien" Date: Feb 16, 2018 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Update on Wikimedia partnerships To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" Cc: Sending in a re-formatted version: > > Hi

Re: [African Wikimedians] We need your opinion: Invitation to take survey about Administrator Noticeboard/Incidents

2017-12-01 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Thank you, Sydney. I'll surely take the survey. Regards, Isaac On Dec 1, 2017 8:43 PM, "Sydney Poore" wrote: > Hello Wikimedians :-) > > The Wikimedia Foundation Support and Safety team, along with the > Anti-Harassment Tools Team, is conducting a survey on the use of

Re: [African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Odp: New Affiliations Committee appointments

2017-11-08 Thread Isaac Olatunde
This is a good news. Congratulations to Shola and Jack. Wishing you all the best in your new role. Regards, Isaac On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Samuel Guebo <samuelgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations Shola! > > Cheers, > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Isaac

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Odp: New Affiliations Committee appointments

2017-11-08 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Happy to share this good news here. Regards, Isaac -- Forwarded message -- From: Michał Buczyński Date: Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:23 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Odp: New Affiliations Committee appointments To: Wikimedia Mailing List 8

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-ng] #5 ON TRENDING WIKIPEDIA (Mark Angel Comedy) (Episode 128)

2017-10-02 Thread Isaac Olatunde
lf/herself as a community. If what Flo meant by "Wikipedia community " is "someone from the community", that's fine. Regards, Isaac https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_community On Oct 2, 2017 6:45 PM, "Asaf Bartov" <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: &

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-ng] #5 ON TRENDING WIKIPEDIA (Mark Angel Comedy) (Episode 128)

2017-10-02 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Sorry Anne, I missed your email. Thanks for your comment. Regards, Isaac. On Oct 2, 2017 6:31 PM, "Isaac Olatunde" <reachout2is...@gmail.com> wrote: > Neither the "Wikipedia community " nor the "Nigerian community" is to > decide whether th

Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-ng] #5 ON TRENDING WIKIPEDIA (Mark Angel Comedy) (Episode 128)

2017-09-30 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Daniel, Do you think this should be compensatory or they indeed meet our notability guidelines?. For example, if they meet the English Wikipedia notability guideline, someone with no conflict of interest who think they are notable will probably write about them there. This does not implies

Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedian of the Year Award

2017-09-26 Thread Isaac Olatunde
let us celebrate outcomes and teams rather than individuals. A. On Sep 26, 2017 18:29, "Florence Devouard" <anth...@anthere.org> wrote: > Dear Isaac > > Le 26/09/2017 à 17:23, Isaac Olatunde a écrit : > > Hi Flo, > > I see your points but I disagree that a merit a

Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedian of the Year Award

2017-09-26 Thread Isaac Olatunde
omination ? Would that be public ? > Some cultures favor boosting (eg, american from USA) whilst in others, > self nomination (or even the prospect of asking someone privately for a > nomination) is just very hard to do. Beyond culture... even gender plays a > role. Women tend to be less

Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedian of the Year Award

2017-09-26 Thread Isaac Olatunde
> > Regards, > > Justice. > > On Sep 26, 2017 11:58 AM, "Isaac Olatunde" <reachout2is...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Well, that shouldn't be a difficult thing like every other awards, but >> the African Wikimedia community will decide how to best do it

Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedian of the Year Award

2017-09-26 Thread Isaac Olatunde
we going to measure who > qualifies to be an African Wikimedian of the year. Are we going to use a > popular vote process, I believe when we figure those things out we can move > forward with that. > > Best, > Justice. > > On Sep 26, 2017 11:47 AM, "Isaac Olatunde" <

[African Wikimedians] African Wikimedian of the Year Award

2017-09-26 Thread Isaac Olatunde
makes the event more colorful. What do you think? Regards, Isaac Olatunde ___ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians

Re: [African Wikimedians] Help Rescue Newbie Article

2017-09-15 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Ofori, I was able to see the contents of the article prior to deletion by User:Seraphimblade, and I agree that the article was really promotional. When writing on topic like this in the future (or rewriting the deleted article), avoid mission and vision statements. These statement does not

[African Wikimedians] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 August 2017)

2017-08-16 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi all, I am happy this week because a Wikimedian from Africa, Felix Nartey was named Wikipedian of the Year 2017 in Montreal. What's making you happy this week? Regards, Isaac ___ African-Wikimedians mailing list

Re: [African Wikimedians] felix wikimedian of the year ...

2017-08-14 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Congratulations, Felix. Regards, Isaac. On Aug 14, 2017 12:33 PM, "Douglas Scott" wrote: > Congratulations Felix, a great award to a truly deserving awardee for all > the amazing work he has done. > > On 14 Aug 2017 00:33, "rupert THURNER"

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [WM-Chairpersons] Judgment i BUS v. Wikimedia Sverige case

2017-07-07 Thread Isaac Olatunde
I am forwarding this here. Regards, Isaac. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mattias Blomgren Date: Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:41 PM Subject: [WM-Chairpersons] Judgment i BUS v. Wikimedia Sverige case To: Internal mailing list for the Wikimedia's

Re: [African Wikimedians] Soft launch : WikiAfrica website; WikiAfrica

2017-06-09 Thread Isaac Olatunde
t;> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >>1. Re: Soft launch : WikiAfrica website (Isaac Olatunde) >> >> >> ---

Re: [African Wikimedians] Soft launch : WikiAfrica website

2017-06-09 Thread Isaac Olatunde
I mean "Wiki Africa User Group" is long overdue. Regards, Isaac On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2is...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Flo, > > Thank you so much for your comprehensive clarification. I concur with you > per your elaborate explanation

Re: [African Wikimedians] Soft launch : WikiAfrica website

2017-06-09 Thread Isaac Olatunde
he Kiwix association. Who knows > > We thought important to have a place to showcase those projects as a > whole. We also thought important to acknowledge the role each of those > hosts and partners have played. Africa Centre certainly played an important > part t

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Successful scholarship applications

2017-05-24 Thread Isaac Olatunde
FYI, I am forwarding this here as I believe it would be useful for future Wikimania applicant. Regards, Isaac (*who has never received a wikimanian scholarship or apply for one this year)* -- Forwarded message -- From: Deryck Chan Date: Wed, May 24, 2017

Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedia Developers Project

2017-05-23 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Greetings, The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy that people would be trained on how to contribute to Wikimedia

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] how to deal with spam emails in mailing lists

2017-05-15 Thread Isaac Olatunde
FYI, Please, ignore my previous mail. I believe you will find the advise below useful. Regards, Isaac -- Forwarded message -- From: John Mark Vandenberg Date: Mon, May 15, 2017 at 5:15 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] how to deal with spam emails in mailing

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Widespread perfomance issues

2017-05-15 Thread Isaac Olatunde
FYI, I believe we could find the information below useful. Regards, Isaac -- Forwarded message -- From: Cristian Consonni Date: Mon, May 15, 2017 at 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Widespread perfomance issues To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org On

Re: [African Wikimedians] Invitation to May Opportunities In NYC with Wikipedia & AfroCROWD

2017-05-11 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Greetings, Thanks for sharing and kudos to everyone involve in making this a reality. Best, Isaac On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:02 PM, AfroCROWD wrote: > [image: Facebook] >

Re: [African Wikimedians] Turkish Government Blocked Access to Wikipedia

2017-04-30 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Thanks for the update, Katherine. Best, Isaac On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Isla Haddow-Flood wrote: > Sorry. That was just a message on Facebook !! Not an official release. > > Excuse the brevity, sent from my iPhone. > > On 30 Apr 2017, at 07:04, Katherine

[African Wikimedians] Turkish Government Blocked Access to Wikipedia

2017-04-29 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Greetings, Today, a court sitting in Ankara banned access to Wikipedia. The reason for the ban is not clear but a statement credited to Turkey's communications ministry said " Wikipedia was attempting to run a smear campaign against Turkey ". Well, its seems the ban was imposed following a failed

[African Wikimedians] Attributing Images to User Group

2017-04-25 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Greetings, I am happy to draw the attention of active Wikimedia User Group in Africa to a just concluded discussion on Wikimedia Commons where it was established that images taken by community members at Wikimedia events may be attributed to the user group provided all the photographers (who are

[African Wikimedians] Fwd: [Wikimedia ZA] Fwd: [WMCON17] Metropolitan Museum of Art collaborations

2017-04-10 Thread Isaac Olatunde
FYI, Best, Isaac -- Forwarded message -- From: Douglas Scott Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:36 PM Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Fwd: [WMCON17] Metropolitan Museum of Art collaborations To: wikimediaza Hello everyone, I

Re: [African Wikimedians] Inspire campaign proposition

2017-02-24 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Anthere, Convincing potential partners is a major challenge for us in Africa and I feel this is a good approach to vanquishing this challenge. Thanks for this idea. Best, Isaac. On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: > Here :

Re: [African Wikimedians] Thanks to your endorsements, my Inspire proposal is now ranked second

2017-02-23 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi Turki, Thanks you for the effort you have put into developing this idea. It is undoubtedly a good idea to have emeritus professors contributing to Wikipedia. I have glanced through your project page. However, it seems you modified this idea