[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia User Group Nigeria -Annual Activities Report FTY 2017-2018

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Dear all,
Trust you are well. 

The above abject refers. 

We are glad to share our Annual Activities Report FTY 2017-2018  with you.  

We welcome your  observations, comments and words of encouragement (if 
necessary)  . 

Best regards,
Olaniyan Olushola
The President Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. 

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[Wikimedia-l] WikiIndaba 2019: Call for Submission.

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Apology for cross posting!
Dear Community Members, 
We are now accepting applications for Programs Submission for Wiki Indaba 2019 
in Nigeria. 
WikiIndaba will be held in January 2019, in Abuja, Nigeria.Please check the 
below link for more information about 
submissions.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2019/SubmissionsDeadline
 for submission is October 14th. Please reach out to 
wikiindaba2019prog...@gmail.com for more information or comments.
Kayode Yussuf, 
Communications Lead, Wiki Indaba 2019 Nigeria 
for: Programs Committee
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[Wikimedia-l] Season Greetings

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  We are delighted to seeanother 360+ days in our calendar. No doubt, it has 
been an eventful year. As ateam, our years is calibrated not by twelve months 
in a year but by the numberof works done within our community as a reflection 
of our projections for theyear. We are glad to thank you all for making it 
happen.  Sincerely, we can’t glossover the year 2017 without a mention of the 
numerous supports from ourvolunteers across the length and breadth of Nigeria. 
How I wish we can rewindthe clock, perhaps we could have seen how colorful the 
year was to ourcommunity. We started the year withless than ten (10) members 
but today; we are well above thirty (30) committedmembers, While basking in the 
joy ofthe upsurge in the number of our member, we cannot forget many of our 
Non-Wikibased organizations, which have recognized with our group through 
various formof partnerships like:
 -  Wikimedia Foundation 
·GogeAfrica-  Content Partner·WFM91.7 – Awareness for Nigerian 
Women·Universityof Ibadan,- Wikimedia Fan Club·NigeriaInstitute 
of Journalism, Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria- Wikimedia Fan Club.·NigeriaChamber 
of Commerce, Indurdtry , Mines and Agriculture – Awareness·WikiLoves 
Women Team-  ·WikiLoves Earth Team·WikiLoves Monuments Team·
WikiLoves Africa. Team ·GoetheInstitut @goethe.nigeria- Platform 
for Training·ProjectPINK BLUE- Awareness ·
Cee-HopeNigeria-Awareness·@BlackfaceRadio- Awareness·
FountainUniversity, Oshogbo Nigeria- Wikipedia @15 ( Awareness)·
Women’sTechnology Empowerment Centre. @wteconlinepage- Awareness-    African 
Community  
  and many others that we cant mention.

We wish them Merry Xmas andHappy New Year in Advance For Wikimedia UG Nigeria 
Olaniyan OlusholaPresident Wikimedia UGNigeria President Wikimedia UG 
NigeriaMember, Affiliates Committee ( Affcom)Treasurer , FOSSFA
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Open Foundation West Africa

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Congratulations to the team!!!

This is long overdue. 

Best Regards
Olushola



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Ltd|Treasurer,FOSSFA|Skype:ozo734
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On Sat, 10/14/17, Nurunnaby Hasive  wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Open Foundation West Africa
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 Cc: "Wikimedia Movement Affiliates discussion list" 

 Date: Saturday, October 14, 2017, 10:31 AM
 
 Great! Congratulations Open
 Foundation West Africa!
 
 
 Hasive
 WMBD
 
 On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 5:09 AM, Kirill Lokshin
 
 wrote:
 
 > Hi
 everyone!
 >
 > I'm
 very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
 recognized
 > Open Foundation West Africa
 [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims
 > to extend the reach of Wikimedia movement
 activities in West Africa through
 > open
 education programs, digitizing open resources, preserving
 cultural and
 > heritage items for
 educational purposes, and promoting content about the
 > West African region.
 >
 > Please join me in
 congratulating the members of this new user group!
 >
 > Regards,
 > Kirill Lokshin
 > Chair,
 Affiliations Committee
 >
 > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Foundation_West_Africa
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[Wikimedia-l] WFM 91.7 FM becomes our broadcasting partner in Nigeria

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Dear wikipedians, 

We are delighted to announce that we have reached agreement with the above 
named prestigious broadcasting station to partner with us in reaching further 
audience in Nigeria. 

The agreement will assist us in reaching wider audience and also actualizing 
some of our core projects in alignment with the pinnacle of their 
establishment, which is to promote women in Nigeria.

I will keep you inform as things unfold.
Best RegardsOlushola
Welcome to WFM 91.7 - NIGERIA'S FIRST RADIO STATION FOR WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia hubs in Nigeria

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Hi Amir, 

Thank you for your enquiry. 

Yes, it includes language wikipedia but we need to start gradually with them 
because of their experience. 

Thanks Olaniyan Ishola Olushola|MD, Data Access Systems 
Ltd|Treasurer,FOSSFA|Skype:ozo734
Tweeter:@oluwanishola73|www.facebook.com/olaniyan.shola|Alt email : 
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On Thursday, May 4, 2017 6:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni 
 wrote:
 

 Do these Hubs have anything to do with writing in languages other than
English?

בתאריך 4 במאי 2017 17:55,‏ "Isaac Olatunde"  כתב:

Greetings,

What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in two
academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria
Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community (Wikimedia
User Group Nigeria) who made this happened.

Regards,

Isaac


https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman  wrote:

> Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is
> there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
>
> James
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz 
> wrote:
>
> > What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific
> > imagery that was openly licensed!
> >
> > The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of
> > agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain.
> > I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee
> > Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to
> > the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack
> > job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for
> > batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php
> > (anyone interested in molluscs?)
> >
> > I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC
> > by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality
> > medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch
> > of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of
> > content: https://opentextbc.ca/
> >
> > [1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/
> > [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
> >
> > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou
> >  wrote:
> > > +1 on this.
> > > News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
> > >
> > > K.
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W  wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User
> Group
> > >> .
> > >>
> > >> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
> > >>
> > >> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings
> for
> > >> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited
> experience, I
> > >> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I
> > bought
> > >> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive
> > to me
> > >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop",
> the
> > >> manual was written for someone who already had good technical
> knowledge
> > of
> > >> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia
> > has
> > >> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have
> > >> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.
> > After a
> > >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more
> knowledgeable
> > >> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a
> > >> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers
> > group
> > >> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider
> > ways
> > >> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in
> > >> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable
> > >> open-source contributions are very high.
> > >>
> > >> What's making you happy this week?
> > >>
> > >> Pine
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[Wikimedia-l] Approval: Wikimedia UG Fan Club, University of Ibadan, Oyomo state. Nigeria.

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Dear All, 
Trust you are fine 
As part of our efforts to improve the awareness of Wikimedia related projects 
and activities in Nigeria. This is to officially inform the global community 
that Wikimedia UG Nigeria (WUGN) has been official approved  to run Wikimedia 
Fan Club, University of Ibadan at the oldest University in Nigeria, University 
of Ibadan (UI). 
We will really appreciate all your supports and assistance. 
Best Olushola Team Lead, Wikimedia UG Nigeria  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about senior leadership of WMF's Talent & Culture team

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Thank you Katherine for the e-introduction of Joady Lohr and Anna
Stillwell for the amazing works.

Kudos!!!

Olaniyan Olushola
Team Lead, WUGN Olaniyan Ishola Olushola|MD, Data Access Systems 
Ltd|Treasurer,FOSSFA|Skype:ozo734
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On Thursday, February 9, 2017 2:57 AM, Katherine Maher 
 wrote:
 

 Hi everyone,

I’m delighted today to share some news about the leadership of the
Foundation’s Talent & Culture (HR) department. Joady Lohr and Anna
Stillwell, the T&C team’s current senior leaders, will be assuming
permanent senior leadership roles within the T&C team.

As many Wikimedia Foundation staff know well, we have a Talent & Culture
team that brings everything they’ve got to supporting the organization and
each other. Over the past few years, they dug in, offered staff critical
support through transition, and have given our colleagues the resources and
structure we need to come together around our values and build a stronger,
better, more inclusive culture.

They’re a team that is far from ordinary - and it makes sense that their
leadership, and its structure - would reflect that. Anyone who has worked
with Joady and Anna recognize they are two sides of the same coin: they’re
deeply passionate about their work, have highly complementary skills and
experience, and they put the needs of the Foundation first. They’re a team
that shares strengths, shares accountability, and shares vision. We want to
celebrate this leadership and relationship with roles that make the most of
their strengths, in service to the organization and mission.

*I’ve asked Joady Lohr to be our Chief Talent & Culture Officer. *

In this capacity, Joady will lead the T&C department. She’ll be responsible
for developing a strong, diverse team, with the capacity and clarity they
need to thrive. She’ll work at the executive team level to advance a clear
and comprehensive vision for how we serve and support employees throughout
their time with the Foundation. She’ll work closely with Anna (more on that
below) to ensure our culture and philosophy are incorporated in our staff
policies, procedures, and programs. Her full job description is below.

As many of you know, Joady is already handling many aspects of this role.
Over the course of her five years with the Foundation, she has been
committed to consistently improving and developing systems, structures, and
consistency for everyone in the organization. She led the charge on opening
up our compensation bands and our EEO (diversity) data for increased
transparency.  She’s made hard calls and handled tricky situations with
grace, respect, and empathy.  She has pushed for leading-edge parental
leave, vacation, and sick time, including our experiments with remoting and
relaxing. She drove the case for upgrading our internal systems to support
these benefits. And she’s been acting as our interim lead for T&C for a
long while now, in official and unofficial ways.

*I’ve asked Anna Stillwell to take on a new role, which we’ve worked
together to define and name. *

She’ll be working across the organization to collaboratively build our
culture and organization for the future. She’ll be a strategic partner to
departments and the executive team, with leadership on recruiting
high-level roles, developing our internal leaders, and acting as an
ambassador and catalyst for the Wikimedia Foundation as a cultural leader
and employer. She’ll remain in the T&C reporting structure, working closely
with Joady, and stepping in as T&C department leadership when necessary.
What’s the title? VP didn’t quite capture what we were looking for, so we
went abroad (and to the wikis) for inspiration. We’re calling it: Chargée
d’Affaires (VP), and hope it will provoke conversation. Her full job
description is below.

Many staff members will remember the cheers that went up across the
organization when Anna rejoined the T&C team earlier this year. Anna joined
the Foundation three and a half years ago, and quickly became a defender
and champion of its values. This isn’t purely figurative -- 110 people
participated in the recent org-wide values process that Anna drove (you’ll
hear more about the outcomes at this month’s metrics meeting). Anna has
been working with the executive team to help us clarify our own
expectations around leadership and responsibility, encouraging us to
stretch our own areas of comfort. And she’s been invaluable behind the
scenes in bringing in highly qualified leaders to our work, successfully
recruiting for the Endowment Board and working with the Board of Trustees
to identify new candidates for the appointed Trustee seats, alongside
Michelle Paulson.

I am thrilled to recognize Joady and Anna’s commitment and capacity with
these new roles. They were unanimously the choice of the CTCO search panel,
and they have m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board appointment of Executive Director

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Dear All,
We write to congratulate Katherine on her appointment as the new Executive 
Director of our foundation.
Wishing you the best.
Olaniyan Olushola
Team Lead, WUGN 
 

On Saturday, June 25, 2016 6:31 AM, Andrew Gray  
wrote:
 
 

 On 24 June 2016 at 10:15, Patricio Lorente  wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> It is our great pleasure to share that during the Board meeting at Wikimania
> 2016 in Esino Lario, we unanimously voted to appoint Katherine Maher as
> Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. This is effective as of our
> resolution dated Thursday, 23 June.

Hi Patricio,

On a pretty miserable day here in the UK, this is really cheering
news. Congratulations to Katherine and well done to the Board for
making a clear decision.

Andrew.

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2016 Schorlarship

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Hi All,

I am writing this mail in solidarity with all active Wikipedians in Africa . I 
felt rather alienation and de-motivated by the announcement of the result of 
Wikimania Scholarship 2016.  I have reviewed the parameters for the selection 
of candidacy for the above mentioned event and I came to the conclusion that 
the selection is not fair to us (WUGN) and Africa in general.  Considering what 
we did withinn the shortest period of the recognition of our group, we are more 
than qualify to be represented at the event. 

Perhaps, we may be considered to be too young... I wish to state here... what's 
the benefit of an event that won't be developmental in nature. We are the 
future of the movement. Frankly speaking, Africa remains Virgin in term of the 
wikimedia concepts and projects compare to other continents. In my opinion, 
resources should be channel to assist the continents rather than the already 
developed one. 

Lastly, if indeed we are so serious about the projects and the move‎ment. Then, 
special quota and interest should be created for developing continents rather 
than the developed ones.

Submitted.

Olaniyan Olushola
Director, WUGN
Treasurer, FOSSFA
MD, Olbims Consulting 
Phone: +2348154876844
Email: olaniyanshol...@gmail.com 
Email: olaniyansh...@yahoo.com
Email:treasu...@fossfa.net 
User page: Olaniyan Olushola
Facebook: Olaniyan Shola
Twitter :Olaniyan73

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