[Wikimedia-l] Re: Launch of the course "OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics"

2024-04-05 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
an SholaTwitter:oluwanishola73Wiki User Name: Olaniyan Olushola* *Wikipedia Campagn in Nigeria featuring Emmanuela * * One on One with Olushola Olaniyan ( TV Plus Africa) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGp_YqdOJzY=youtu.be>* * https://youtu.be/DwTUGVv6Qng <https://youtu.be

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Celebrating Donatien Kangah

2024-02-23 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
A big congratulations to my very good friend and brother. This is long-awaited, and I am glad you got it. The result of your work in the movement speaks for itself. Again, this is a double congratulations. As a football fan that I am, I don't agree that the Nations Cup should go to the Ivory Coast

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia ZA 22-23 Annual Report

2024-02-14 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Hi Bobby, Thank you for sharing this report; it is thought-provoking; your copyright advocacy caught my attention, and I am glad to read in detail your activities around it because they resonate with our area of focus for 2024 (although not to be funded by WMF in our 2024 Fiscal year). In 2023,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Ghana User Group 2023 Annual Report

2024-01-03 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Thank you for sharing this amazing report. Cheers. On Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 7:45 PM Justice Okai-Allotey wrote: > Hello Wikimedians! > > Find here the link to the annual report 2023 of Wikimedia Ghana User Group > available on Meta: >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Celebrating Alice Kibombo

2023-12-14 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Alice, congratulations! This is a well-deserved recognition. On Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:35 PM Belinda Mbambo wrote: > > Hello, Muli mutya! > > > It’s no secret that librarians make amazing Wikimedians. Whether it is > because of the shared passion for knowledge or superpowers in working with >

[Wikimedia-l] Presenting Annual Activities Report (2022-2023) of Wikimedia UG Nigeria

2023-11-19 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear all, Greetings! We are glad to announce and share our annual activities for 2022-2023. We thank everyone who has supported us directly and indirectly in achieving our goals for the year under review. The report is here

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias

2023-09-18 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Thank you, Amir. This tool comes in handy and will be very helpful for the communities preparing for edit-a+thon. Thanks a lot for this information. Cheers. On Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 9:31 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote: > Hi, > TLDR: There is now a tool that gives you list of articles to improve or

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikidata] [Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects] New Product Manager Joins Wikimedia Deutschland

2023-08-09 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Congratulations, It's nice to see you, here. Regards. On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 1:37 PM Ifeatu Nnaobi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Ifeatu > , and I'm > writing to introduce myself as the Product Manager for the Wikidata and >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation launches Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards on World Press Freedom Day

2023-05-05 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
done in this first time. And >> that is what is very important to acknowledge in order to shape the >> initiative to better serve its purpose. >> >> Really looking forward to the success of this initiative and how we can >> use it to do our work better as a community. >>

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation launches Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards on World Press Freedom Day

2023-05-04 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
*Dear all, * *My name is Olushola (User: Olaniyan Olushola). I am from Africa and have been a Wikimedia since 2014 and passionate about language. I co-lead the Oral History documentation of Nigerian indigenous languages ( see more about it **here*

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia UG Nigeria : Submission of our Annual activities and Financial Report for the Year 2021-2022

2022-11-30 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
ernal_sub2=Global_YGrowth_sub3=EmailSignature> > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 8:34 PM, Florence Devouard > wrote: > Thank you Shola > > Flo > > > Le 24/11/2022 à 22:35, Olushola Olaniyan a écrit : > > > > Dear friends! > > > > Greetings from Lagos,

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia UG Nigeria : Submission of our Annual activities and Financial Report for the Year 2021-2022

2022-11-24 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear friends! Greetings from Lagos, Nigeria. As a requirement by the Wikimedia Affiliate committee, we are glad to inform you of the submission of our annual activities and financial report FTY 2021-2022 (1) (2). We thank and appreciate every individual and organization that has supported and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Nine Month Update & Foundation Leadership Team

2022-09-06 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Thank you, Maryana for the highlights, they came very handy. I will continue to resonate on them. Cheers On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 5:52 PM Maryana Iskander wrote: > This message is being translated into other languages on Meta-wiki. ‎You > can help with more languages. >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

2022-06-14 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
This is an exciting news. Selena, we are glad to welcome you to our movement. regards. On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:10 PM Maryana Iskander wrote: > Hi all, > > When I started in January, I shared with you that one of my top > priorities >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online self-guided courses now available on WikiLearn platform

2022-05-12 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Wow! I am just seeing this, now. Sincerely, this is a great initiative. Already, our affiliate is working on developing a very similar program (WikiAcademy), and we plan to launch it in June. We will be glad to learn from the team. All the same, I am glad about what I am seeing. Olushola On

[Wikimedia-l] Re: International Women's Month.. 25th of March is our Day!!!! 

2022-03-25 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
ow: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Naija_Women_Writing_Contest_2022 Regards, Olaniyan Olushola President, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 2:54 PM Olushola Olaniyan wrote: > Dear friends, > > > Our WikiGap Virtual Edit-a-thon in Nigeria

[Wikimedia-l] International Women's Month.. 25th of March is our Day!!!! 

2022-03-23 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear friends, Our WikiGap Virtual Edit-a-thon in Nigeria is happening on the 25th March 2022. Naija Women Writing Contest 2022 is the Nigerian version of #WikiGap organised by Wikimedia Nigeria UG in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in Nigeria. The event intends to improve and create

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of the Gungbe Wikimedians User Group

2022-01-31 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
E: olaniyanshol...@gmail.com E: sh...@wikimedia.ng.org Facebook:Olaniyan SholaTwitter:oluwanishola73Wiki User Name: Olaniyan Olushola* *Wikipedia Campagn in Nigeria featuring Emmanuela * * One on One with Olushola Olaniyan ( TV Plus Africa) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGp_YqdOJzY

[Wikimedia-l] Annual report- 2020/2021 Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

2021-11-04 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
r your cooperation. Regards Olushola Olaniyan President, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.or

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Women, Wikiquote, SheSaid Launch, and Nigeria Independence Day...

2021-10-01 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
ntry about a Nigerian women today on Wikiquote... > hashtags #shesaid #NG > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid > > > Anthere > > PS: Love you ❤️ Shola ;) > > > Le 01/10/2021 à 09:59, Olushola Olaniyan a écrit : > > Reminder!!! &

[Wikimedia-l] Nigeria Independence Day global Edit-a-thon

2021-10-01 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
!!! Olushola Olaniyan President Wikimedia User Group Nigeria ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public

[Wikimedia-l] Nigeria Independence Day global Edit-a-thon

2021-09-30 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Hello friends! Nigeria proclaimed independence from British rule on 1 October 1960. On this day we celebrate Nigeria independence. The Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc. is inviting all our friends in the Wikimedia movement to join us on the 1st of October, 2021 for a 24hrs online edit-a-thon to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

2021-09-15 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Thank you, Natalia,for sharing the amazing piece of news. We, welcome Maryana, to the movement and wishing her the very best in the new engagement. Regards. Shola and Wikimedia UG Nigeria. On Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 4:53 PM Nataliia Tymkiv wrote: > Dear all, > > I am pleased to announce that the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Update from the Wikimedia Foundation Board chair

2021-06-04 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear Maria, Yeah! Eight years seem to be a very long time but considering your achievements and the excellent works that you've done as the Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation, it was like yesterday that you were made the Chair of the Board. Sincerely, I am proud of you!

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Deutschland’s new Executive Director: Christian Humborg

2021-06-02 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
I am just this cheerful news. Thank you, Lukas, for sharing this news. I am super excited about this news, and i wish to congratulate Christian for achieving the feat. I cannot forget in a hurry the support provided by you and your team during the time of my case with the German embassy in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you + see you around!

2021-04-16 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
have laid the track. Continue with your Midas touch and break the glass ceiling. I am wishing you the very best in your next endeavour. I celebrate You. Olushola Olaniyan ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Next year: my role

2021-03-09 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Apologies for cross posting!!! We write to invite all photographers and photo enthusiasts on this platform to the maiden edition of #WikiPhotoTalk. The event was designed to support, create awareness for open knowledge in photography and better provide more visibility for African

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish! / Stepping down April 15

2021-02-05 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear Katherine, I never saw this coming! You have done so well as the CEO of Foundation and I believe you will continue to be an ambassador of the movement, wherever you go. You are such a special person and we all shall miss you!!! Stay blessed. On Thu, Feb 4, 2021, 6:48 PM Katherine Maher

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal news // ED transition

2021-01-27 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Thanks, Abraham for this message. I could remember the day we met at your office in Berlin and every words we shared together. You are such a pleasant personality that will be missed within our movement. You have also demonstrated a good precedent for all outgoing personnel within and outside

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia User Group Nigeria: Annual activities report for the year ended 2019-2020

2020-11-16 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear all Greetings, We write to inform you all that our annual report for the year ended 2019-2020 is ready. We wish to thank the Wikimedia Foundation for its supports in the previous reporting year and we hope to strengthen the relationship between us in the new year. And to all our

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Government of Navarre will fund BWUG

2020-07-26 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Great! Congratulations this is an amazing development. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 10:54 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > It is a real pleasure to announce the agreement reached between Basque > Wikimedians User Group and the Government of Navarre to finance

Re: [Wikimedia-l] June 4 1800 Maggie Dennis office hour (with a twist)

2020-05-30 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Thank you, Maggie, I am so glad this is coming at the right time. Looking forward to it. Thanks Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng sh...@wikimedia.org.ng

[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest: We are looking for Jury

2020-05-26 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
olaTwitter:oluwanishola73Wiki User Name: Olaniyan Olushola* *Wikipedia Campagn in Nigeria featuring Emmanuela * * One on One with Olushola Olaniyan ( TV Plus Africa) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGp_YqdOJzY=youtu.be>* * https://youtu.be/DwTUGVv6Qng <https://youtu.be/

[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest: Sharing our diversity.

2020-05-21 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear friends, This is to inform you that WikiGap Nigeria Online contest has entered week three and we are glad to share our progress report with you all. We have over 300 articles published in less than three weeks by over thirty (30) editors in over 16 Wikipedia projects/languages ( enwiki,

[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest extends to 27 May 2020.

2020-05-12 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
l...@gmail.com E: sh...@wikimedia.ng.org Facebook:Olaniyan SholaTwitter:oluwanishola73Wiki User Name: Olaniyan Olushola* *Wikipedia Campagn in Nigeria featuring Emmanuela * * One on One with Olushola Olaniyan ( TV Plus Africa) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGp_YqdOJzY=youtu.be>

[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Online Challange

2020-04-29 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Hello friends, We invite you to join us in a 2 week long WikiGap Online Writing contest starting today 29 April to 13 May. Amazing prizes are available for participants. The contest is organized in partnership with the Swedish Embassy in Nigeria, African Women in the Media, Women in Red, Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

2020-03-08 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
s ConsultingPhone: +2348167352512E: olaniyanshol...@gmail.com E: sh...@wikimedia.ng.org Facebook:Olaniyan SholaTwitter:oluwanishola73Wiki User Name: Olaniyan Olushola* *Wikipedia Campagn in Nigeria featuring Emmanuela * * One on One with Olushola Olaniyan ( TV Plus Africa) <https://www.you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Eduwiki] You're invited: Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting, Jan 28 at 18:00 UTC

2020-01-15 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Thank you for this information and the shared link, I will be so glad to attend the meeting. Regards Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng sh...@wikimedia.org.ng

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Ryan Merkley to the Wikimedia Foundation

2019-08-15 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Ryan, Congratulations!!! You are welcome on board. On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 23:01 Katherine Maher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I’m excited to let you all know that Ryan Merkley, formerly CEO of > Creative Commons, is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as my new chief of > staff. > > Many of you have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hausa Wikimedians User Group

2019-08-04 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Wow Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng sh...@wikimedia.org.ng olaniyanshol...@gmail.com +2348167352512 On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 18:05 Kirill Lokshin wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group

2019-08-04 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
I am so excited about this news!!! Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng sh...@wikimedia.org.ng olaniyanshol...@gmail.com +2348167352512 On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 18:03

[Wikimedia-l] Courtesy visit to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. ( UNN)

2019-05-12 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear all, We are glad to inform you of our recent courtesy visit to the University of Nigeria. Our mandate as Wikimedia User Group (operating as Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation in Nigeria) is to introduce Wikipedia and it's sister projects to all the citizen of the federal republic of Nigeria. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

2019-03-31 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Congratulations !!! Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng sh...@wikimedia.org.ng olaniyanshol...@gmail.com +2348167352512 On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 11:31 John Andersson

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata now officially has more total edits than English language Wikipedia

2019-03-20 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
This is a good news. Cheers!!! Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng sh...@wikimedia.org.ng olaniyanshol...@gmail.com +2348167352512 On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 08:52

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine's board and officers

2019-03-17 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Congratulations!!! Regards Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng sh...@wikimedia.org.ng olaniyanshol...@gmail.com +2348167352512 On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 20:30 Голова

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

2018-11-27 Thread Olushola Olaniyan via Wikimedia-l
Dear all, Apology for the mixed up. Kindly see the URL below: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Reports/2017-2018#Media_coverages Thanks. for your understanding. On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:50 PM Cornelius Kibelka < cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello