Re: [African Wikimedians] Destubathon over

2016-11-29 Thread Douglas Scott
That is awesome, congratulations to everyone who participated. That's a great impact. On 30 November 2016 at 01:39, Nkansah Rexford wrote: > Great outcome! > > And congratulations to all who won and or participated. > > On Nov 29, 2016 23:33, "Kacie Harold"

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa: Press releases

2016-11-29 Thread Olatunde Isaac
Hi Isla, Nigeria team acknowledged your mail with thanks. Best, Isaac Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -Original Message- From: Isla Haddow Flood Sender: "African-Wikimedians" Date:

[African Wikimedians] Its welcom that i can learn.

2016-11-29 Thread Mogatwe Lebogang
It all okey to extend a version of knowledge brain mind to understand far and near,to tour the world by reading is better than all. ___ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa: Press releases

2016-11-29 Thread Isla Haddow-Flood
Wonderful!! Please share with us and post to Commons when done!! So exciting Geoffrey!! Excuse the brevity, sent from my iPhone. > On 30 Nov 2016, at 07:16, Geoffrey Kateregga wrote: > > Thanks Isla, > > Team Tanzania would also like to translate the press release into

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa: Press releases

2016-11-29 Thread Geoffrey Kateregga
Thanks Isla, Team Tanzania would also like to translate the press release into Swahili. Regards, Geoffrey. On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Isla Haddow Flood wrote: > Dear Wiki Loves Africa teams and participants. > > Please find below the links to the English and

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 134 Concerning African language wikipedias

2016-11-29 Thread Olatunde Isaac
@Kipala, you wrote "Yoruba is not visible in Nigeria wikipedia lookups, all its readers seem to be abroad, same for Malagasy in Madagascar." How did you arrived on the above conclusion? Best, Isaac Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -Original Message- From:

Re: [African Wikimedians] Destubathon over

2016-11-29 Thread Kacie Harold
Fantastic results - congrats and THANK YOU to everyone who organized and participated! On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:49 PM Asaf Bartov wrote: > Fantastic! Congratulations to all! > > A. > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:45 PM Florence Devouard > wrote:

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 134 Concerning African language wikipedias

2016-11-29 Thread Ingo Koll
Concerning African language wikipedias: I follow Asaf's advice and post my text here: Hi *Ian, thanks for your continuous look at African language wikipedias.* I agree with you that Afrikaans is indeed the best quality among these. But *to look at only article numbers can be very misleading *as

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 129 African language Wikipedia update

2016-11-29 Thread Asaf Bartov
Thank you, Ingo. I found myself agreeing with everything you said in the blog comment. It is perhaps worth pasting on this mailing list as well, as it would reach more people. A. On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:54 PM Ingo Koll wrote: > Hi Ian, you did a great overview! > > I

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 129 African language Wikipedia update

2016-11-29 Thread Ingo Koll
Hi Ian, you did a great overview! I propose also to look at some quality indicators because just article numbers cannot say if people will read the contributions. There are content benchmarks like the "1,000/10,000 topics every wikipedia should have" lists, and some ideas to look up

Re: [African Wikimedians] Destubathon over

2016-11-29 Thread Asaf Bartov
Fantastic! Congratulations to all! A. On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:45 PM Florence Devouard wrote: > The destubathon > ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/The_Africa_Destubathon > ) > is officially over. > > And it rocked ! > > Facts > > * 2041

[African Wikimedians] Destubathon over

2016-11-29 Thread Florence Devouard
The destubathon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/The_Africa_Destubathon) is officially over. And it rocked ! Facts * 2041 articles were destubbed. 102.10% of our initial goal ! * 676 african women biographies were destubbed or created * 58 new Good Articles are

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2016-11-29 Thread Sherry Antoine
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Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa: Press releases

2016-11-29 Thread Florence Devouard
Thanks Isla ;) To be noted I published them on Commons * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FR_PR-_WLA_2016_M%26D_1st_Press_Release.pdf * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EN_PR-_WLA_2016_M%26D_1st_Press_Release.pdf If someone wants access to the master :

[African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa: Press releases

2016-11-29 Thread Isla Haddow Flood
Dear Wiki Loves Africa teams and participants. Please find below the links to the English and French press releases for the start of Wiki Loves Africa. We would be grateful if you could send this out to your networks, especially media and partners. French:

[African Wikimedians] One more day for Wiki Indaba Application

2016-11-29 Thread Raphael Berchie
Dear all, We wish to inform you that the scholarship applications for Wiki Indaba closes tomorrow at 23:59 GMT. Please if you have not yet applied please visit this page below and do so. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe20eiJ571_rl4GS4ZtoObxWJbK9kcA2BV3-vR8W4R3gP39sw/viewform