Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda
Great ! I forward the information to Erina. Indeed, I saw that these two guys were key points fostering an increase of edits on the Luganda version. Erina should only be back in Uganda in a month, but sharing of information by email could be nice as well. How long are your ambassadors staying in Uganda ? Flo On 09/02/14 09:50, Jan Ainali wrote: That is great news Florence! We have two Wikipedia ambassadors in Uganda right now (they actually had a workshop at the Makerere University yesterday). I will ask them to contact Erina, it might be valuable if they could share their experiences face to face. *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48 *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se 2014-02-09 9:40 GMT+01:00 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta Muhame. Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her first childhood years in a small village called kilembe and later moved to Kampala. Erina is married with Brian Muhame. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Surveying from Makerere University. She has since worked with a number of organizations including Ministry of Land Use and Housing and Uganda Wildlife Authority as a Land Surveyor and a GIS Analyst respectively. She will join the Wikimedia community under the user name Erinamukuta. It would be great if some of you could welcome Erina on her talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Erinamukuta -- Cyriac and Erina will now head to Cap Town for a month, to receive some training and start planning their activity in Ivory Coast and Uganda. They will actually join two other people, from Ethiopia and Malawi who will also be trained and will work within the Share Your Knowledge framework. More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News Florence/Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda
Unfortunatly they will go back to Sweden on Sunday (that part of the project was only one month). However, our local project manager is still left, and he has a IEG grant [1] from WMF to setup a Wikipedia Center in Mbazzi which will continue during the year. They too should probably get in touch with each other. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Mbazzi_Village_writes_Wikipedia *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48 *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se 2014-02-10 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: Great ! I forward the information to Erina. Indeed, I saw that these two guys were key points fostering an increase of edits on the Luganda version. Erina should only be back in Uganda in a month, but sharing of information by email could be nice as well. How long are your ambassadors staying in Uganda ? Flo On 09/02/14 09:50, Jan Ainali wrote: That is great news Florence! We have two Wikipedia ambassadors in Uganda right now (they actually had a workshop at the Makerere University yesterday). I will ask them to contact Erina, it might be valuable if they could share their experiences face to face. *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48 *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se 2014-02-09 9:40 GMT+01:00 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta Muhame. Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her first childhood years in a small village called kilembe and later moved to Kampala. Erina is married with Brian Muhame. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Surveying from Makerere University. She has since worked with a number of organizations including Ministry of Land Use and Housing and Uganda Wildlife Authority as a Land Surveyor and a GIS Analyst respectively. She will join the Wikimedia community under the user name Erinamukuta. It would be great if some of you could welcome Erina on her talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Erinamukuta -- Cyriac and Erina will now head to Cap Town for a month, to receive some training and start planning their activity in Ivory Coast and Uganda. They will actually join two other people, from Ethiopia and Malawi who will also be trained and will work within the Share Your Knowledge framework. More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News Florence/Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda
Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta Muhame. Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her first childhood years in a small village called kilembe and later moved to Kampala. Erina is married with Brian Muhame. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Surveying from Makerere University. She has since worked with a number of organizations including Ministry of Land Use and Housing and Uganda Wildlife Authority as a Land Surveyor and a GIS Analyst respectively. She will join the Wikimedia community under the user name Erinamukuta. It would be great if some of you could welcome Erina on her talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Erinamukuta -- Cyriac and Erina will now head to Cap Town for a month, to receive some training and start planning their activity in Ivory Coast and Uganda. They will actually join two other people, from Ethiopia and Malawi who will also be trained and will work within the Share Your Knowledge framework. More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News Florence/Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda
That is great news Florence! We have two Wikipedia ambassadors in Uganda right now (they actually had a workshop at the Makerere University yesterday). I will ask them to contact Erina, it might be valuable if they could share their experiences face to face. *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida 0729 - 67 29 48 *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se 2014-02-09 9:40 GMT+01:00 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta Muhame. Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her first childhood years in a small village called kilembe and later moved to Kampala. Erina is married with Brian Muhame. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Surveying from Makerere University. She has since worked with a number of organizations including Ministry of Land Use and Housing and Uganda Wildlife Authority as a Land Surveyor and a GIS Analyst respectively. She will join the Wikimedia community under the user name Erinamukuta. It would be great if some of you could welcome Erina on her talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Erinamukuta -- Cyriac and Erina will now head to Cap Town for a month, to receive some training and start planning their activity in Ivory Coast and Uganda. They will actually join two other people, from Ethiopia and Malawi who will also be trained and will work within the Share Your Knowledge framework. More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News Florence/Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Ivory Coast
This is absolutely wonderful - the entire story as well as the project. Best wishes to Cyriac Gbogou and the initiative. Sam On Jan 25, 2014 2:09 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we have found a wonderful person to be our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Ivory Coast. His name is Cyriac Gbogou. Born on the 02nd of September 1980 in Kpada (Soubré) village located in the south west of the country and the capital of Ivorian cocoa, Cyriac Gbogou runs for years a part of the African continent with his parents as a student-resident respectively in Senegal, Togo, Mali and Congo-Brazzaville. He finally returned to Côte d'Ivoire in 2001 and decided to pursue graduate studies in computer science. He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science. He gets married in August 2009. In 2010, he discovers the world of Web 2.0. That same year, Cyriac chooses to not follow his employer IBM which wanted to relocate its activities in Morocco because of the very sensitive period in Cote d'Ivoire. Loving risk and adventure, he stays to serve his country as volunteer in Akendewa (now former Secretary General). His passion for social networks has grown during the post-electoral crisis of 2011 working with other actors in the Ivorian web projects such as Civsocial #, # Wonzomai who have saved lives with the Internet use [1]. Cyriac is the Chairman of the Association des Blogueurs de Côte d'Ivoire (A.B.C.I) Since September 2012, Cyriac Gbogou is an independent consultant, a job he does with passion, as an advisor, speaker and trainer. He was named by his peers Village Chief of the Ivorian web community. You can also follow him on his blog where he speaks freely on topics: www.cyriacgbogou.ci Whilst Cyriac is not (yet) a wikipedian, he is quite knowledgeable with open source and related projects : he was involved in OSM Ivory Coast mapping and coordinating mapping party or was involved in the jerry project (http://youandjerrycan.org) including in the set up of Afripedia on a jerry server. More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News Cyriac will have about two weeks to gain some familiarity with Wikimedia projects before heading to Cap Town for a month, to receive some training and start planning his activity in Ivory Coast. It would be great if some of you could welcome him on his (still red) talk page :) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Cyriac_Gbogou Florence/Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Ivory Coast
Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we have found a wonderful person to be our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Ivory Coast. His name is Cyriac Gbogou. Born on the 02nd of September 1980 in Kpada (Soubré) village located in the south west of the country and the capital of Ivorian cocoa, Cyriac Gbogou runs for years a part of the African continent with his parents as a student-resident respectively in Senegal, Togo, Mali and Congo-Brazzaville. He finally returned to Côte d'Ivoire in 2001 and decided to pursue graduate studies in computer science. He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science. He gets married in August 2009. In 2010, he discovers the world of Web 2.0. That same year, Cyriac chooses to not follow his employer IBM which wanted to relocate its activities in Morocco because of the very sensitive period in Cote d’Ivoire. Loving risk and adventure, he stays to serve his country as volunteer in Akendewa (now former Secretary General). His passion for social networks has grown during the post-electoral crisis of 2011 working with other actors in the Ivorian web projects such as Civsocial #, # Wonzomai who have saved lives with the Internet use [1]. Cyriac is the Chairman of the Association des Blogueurs de Côte d'Ivoire (A.B.C.I) Since September 2012, Cyriac Gbogou is an independent consultant, a job he does with passion, as an advisor, speaker and trainer. He was named by his peers Village Chief of the Ivorian web community. You can also follow him on his blog where he speaks freely on topics: www.cyriacgbogou.ci Whilst Cyriac is not (yet) a wikipedian, he is quite knowledgeable with open source and related projects : he was involved in OSM Ivory Coast mapping and coordinating mapping party or was involved in the jerry project (http://youandjerrycan.org) including in the set up of Afripedia on a jerry server. More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en#News Cyriac will have about two weeks to gain some familiarity with Wikimedia projects before heading to Cap Town for a month, to receive some training and start planning his activity in Ivory Coast. It would be great if some of you could welcome him on his (still red) talk page :) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Cyriac_Gbogou Florence/Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki project hires 2 Wikipedians for Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire
Please find below a link announcement for the hire of two Wikipedians in Community (*). One candidate is meant to be working in Uganda whilst the other will be working in Ivory Coast. Positions are for one year :http://www.wikiafrica.net/call_for_wir_en/ If you know people/media associated to Uganda or Ivory Coast, please relay the call ! More info about Kumusha: * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/en (EN) * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki/fr (FR) (*) After much thinking, we decided to name the people we are looking for, WiC as in Wikipedian in Community rather than Wikipedian in Residence as previously. Our reasoning was that in most cases, WiR are typically Wikipedians planted in institutional context (Museums, libraries etc.) whilst we wanted to avoid this situation and get us to focus on people or communities (already-existing or to-be-created). Hence the new name. Thanks Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Certainly a potential problem. This said, having worked with both communication and touristic agencies, I *much* prefer working with touristic agencies. The main problem with touristic agencies is the language they tend to use. They have an habit of adding flowers and honey in their text but the main thing to deal with is to make them realize the type of writing must be different. If the worker has been rather trained as a journalist, he gets the difference rather quickly once explained and can tone down. The communication teams have different goals: they try to make bad information disappear, push good one, add irrelevant details... but the way they write text is quite similar to our. They have orders to make sure certain things are there and others are not, but often, they do not really care the way it is phrased. It is more sneaky and complex to deal with. I prefer working with touristic-minded people. On 10/3/13 7:22 AM, Peter Southwood wrote: You could do that, but we find that tourist agencies tend to misrepresent their regions by misleading advertising. gross exageration and vague descriptions. You may be lucky. Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Nod I was thinking that it could be an interesting idea to get in touch with local touristic agencies because it is certainly of their interest to make a little bit more information about their area available. I have a French friend for example, who is a geologist and living in a nearby country, and propose those nature-related trecks. I think he could give me a feedback on such an idea. Flo On 10/2/13 5:48 PM, Peter Southwood wrote: Hi Florence, No problems with OR for Wikivoyage, which is why I didnt ask... This would be a great opportunity to fill in some of the blank spaces. Perhaps the project could make use of some of the section headings used in Wikivoyage to encourage contributors to provide the specific information that would be useful to the project. Not exclusively of course, but it would make the information much more accessible for re-use, and it might encourage the contributors if they see that their work is appreciated by another project. We are particularly short of good images for African destinations. Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Hi Peter Photo-upload, certainly as much as possible to Commons indeed. That was part of the discussion indeed because the OF was interested in funding a mobile application that would be super high simple to upload photos (in particular with regards to licensing) but would also provide simple tools within the application (such as cropping, light balance and so on). But now that we have the Commons Mobile Application, I think it not a priority. With regards to licensing, I thought it funny that some people would consider the current application as complex with regards to licenses choice. When I first downloaded it and tested it, I was quite horrified by the limited choices... Of course, there will be some work to do around licensing issues (such as a simple to read doc to explain IP rights and conditions in various African countries). With regards to text content, we already planned to have places to host some of the content because I'm pretty sure some of it will not fit in wikipedia with regards to its rules. Isla and I will probably have differing views on this because she is used to working in an artistic environment whilst I am primarily a rather pragmatic engineer. Let me share some of the info we put on the proposal: The geographical article about Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is very short and generic: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Géographie_de_la_Côte_d%27Ivoire The English version is hardly better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Ivory_Coast A list of Ivory Coast communities has actually been created (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_communes_de_Côte_d%27Ivoire) but most articles are hardly more than placeholders (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the French version and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the English version). In the past 11 years I have been on Wikipedia, I have discovered that one of the thing newbies love to contribute are articles related to their near life-environment. In short, their village, their city, their neighborhood. It is right now getting much tougher to suggest newbies to fill up some data about their city when they live in France or the US because a lot is already there. But look out a few articles related to villages or cities in Ivory Coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboisso-Comoé (navigate through the cities listed at the bottom). That's
[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
Dear friends It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new project, Kumusha Takes Wiki. Kumusha Takes Wiki is a project that aims at activating communities across Africa to create and contribute freely-licensed information, texts, images and media about their communities (villages, townships, suburbs, inner cities, etc). It will use community journalism to gather community-relevant information on heritage, culture, notable persons, geographical features, among other things. It will give each community an online presence that is 'owned' by the community, provide information that can be pulled into Wikipedia, Wikimedia projects or OpenStreetMap databases, and it hopes to add immeasurably to the understanding of Africa to every human being on the planet (from the people in the village to the person in New York, Mumbai or Milan). This project gives a public voice to communities across Africa, empowering them to share their own histories and, through training, to acquire valuable and transferable skills. The project was designed by Isla (South Africa) and I (France), with the support of Iolenda (Italy) (yea, three wikiwomens !) Without going much into details (see links below), let's say that this project will involve Wikipedians in Residence in two African countries (Ivory Coast and Uganda), training in South Africa, local events in the two above listed countries and a big photographic contest involving the entire African continent. More information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki (available in French and English) For those unaware, the official languages of Uganda are English and Swahili, whilst the official language of Ivory Coast is French. Our project being bilingual is not a bug, it's a feature :) I should probably outline that our goal is not so much about getting african content in Wikipedia but more about outreach and awareness in the field. As such, the Wikipedians in Residence will not so much focus on getting in touch and establishing partnerships with institutions in big cities so that content may be freed and added to our projects (see the current wikipedia description of a WiR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence). Our Residence will be the Kumusha (a Shona term meaning the place where you come from). Our WiR will rather try to activate the local communities to help them discover our projects and share their heritage with us. As such, the events are more likely to take place in little villages, suburbs, shantytowns, camps, agricultural communities, than in big cities. Participants are more likely to be teenagers with cellphones than middle age men in suits. Data collected is perhaps more likely to be geographical and social related data about a little city than high level politics. The project is financially supported by the Orange Foundation (France) for Ivory Coast and Uganda... starting 1st of October ! A good part of the original submission made last spring is available here for those interested : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Activate_Africa_(Orange_Foundation) I am very glad to have the opportunity to work on that project :) It is a long way from my presentation back in Wikimania 2005 (Wikimedia projects in the developing world: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-FD1) As for Isla, she is involved in the WikiAfrica project (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Cameroon) through the Africa Centre, and some of you met her at Wikimania Hong Kong where she lead a panel about Activating Africa (https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Activating_Africa). Our twitter handle is @KumushaWiki You are naturally welcome to comment, criticize, relay, participate, support and copy :) Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
2013/10/2 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: The project was designed by Isla (South Africa) and I (France), with the support of Iolenda (Italy) (yea, three wikiwomens !) The correct spelling of her name is Iolanda (with an i and an a) ^_^ C ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
Hi Florence, How much of the information is likely to be usable in Wikipedia? Will there be any requirement for reliable references, NPOV and NOR? Will photo-uploads go to commons? Regards, Peter Southwood - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:03 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Dear friends It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new project, Kumusha Takes Wiki. Kumusha Takes Wiki is a project that aims at activating communities across Africa to create and contribute freely-licensed information, texts, images and media about their communities (villages, townships, suburbs, inner cities, etc). It will use community journalism to gather community-relevant information on heritage, culture, notable persons, geographical features, among other things. It will give each community an online presence that is 'owned' by the community, provide information that can be pulled into Wikipedia, Wikimedia projects or OpenStreetMap databases, and it hopes to add immeasurably to the understanding of Africa to every human being on the planet (from the people in the village to the person in New York, Mumbai or Milan). This project gives a public voice to communities across Africa, empowering them to share their own histories and, through training, to acquire valuable and transferable skills. The project was designed by Isla (South Africa) and I (France), with the support of Iolenda (Italy) (yea, three wikiwomens !) Without going much into details (see links below), let's say that this project will involve Wikipedians in Residence in two African countries (Ivory Coast and Uganda), training in South Africa, local events in the two above listed countries and a big photographic contest involving the entire African continent. More information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kumusha_Takes_Wiki (available in French and English) For those unaware, the official languages of Uganda are English and Swahili, whilst the official language of Ivory Coast is French. Our project being bilingual is not a bug, it's a feature :) I should probably outline that our goal is not so much about getting african content in Wikipedia but more about outreach and awareness in the field. As such, the Wikipedians in Residence will not so much focus on getting in touch and establishing partnerships with institutions in big cities so that content may be freed and added to our projects (see the current wikipedia description of a WiR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence). Our Residence will be the Kumusha (a Shona term meaning the place where you come from). Our WiR will rather try to activate the local communities to help them discover our projects and share their heritage with us. As such, the events are more likely to take place in little villages, suburbs, shantytowns, camps, agricultural communities, than in big cities. Participants are more likely to be teenagers with cellphones than middle age men in suits. Data collected is perhaps more likely to be geographical and social related data about a little city than high level politics. The project is financially supported by the Orange Foundation (France) for Ivory Coast and Uganda... starting 1st of October ! A good part of the original submission made last spring is available here for those interested : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Activate_Africa_(Orange_Foundation) I am very glad to have the opportunity to work on that project :) It is a long way from my presentation back in Wikimania 2005 (Wikimedia projects in the developing world: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-FD1) As for Isla, she is involved in the WikiAfrica project (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Cameroon) through the Africa Centre, and some of you met her at Wikimania Hong Kong where she lead a panel about Activating Africa (https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Activating_Africa). Our twitter handle is @KumushaWiki You are naturally welcome to comment, criticize, relay, participate, support and copy :) Anthere ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
On 10/2/13 3:29 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: 2013/10/2 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com: The project was designed by Isla (South Africa) and I (France), with the support of Iolenda (Italy) (yea, three wikiwomens !) The correct spelling of her name is Iolanda (with an i and an a) ^_^ C ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe I did put an I, did I not ? But right... a :) Sorry Flo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
Hi Peter Photo-upload, certainly as much as possible to Commons indeed. That was part of the discussion indeed because the OF was interested in funding a mobile application that would be super high simple to upload photos (in particular with regards to licensing) but would also provide simple tools within the application (such as cropping, light balance and so on). But now that we have the Commons Mobile Application, I think it not a priority. With regards to licensing, I thought it funny that some people would consider the current application as complex with regards to licenses choice. When I first downloaded it and tested it, I was quite horrified by the limited choices... Of course, there will be some work to do around licensing issues (such as a simple to read doc to explain IP rights and conditions in various African countries). With regards to text content, we already planned to have places to host some of the content because I'm pretty sure some of it will not fit in wikipedia with regards to its rules. Isla and I will probably have differing views on this because she is used to working in an artistic environment whilst I am primarily a rather pragmatic engineer. Let me share some of the info we put on the proposal: The geographical article about Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is very short and generic: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Géographie_de_la_Côte_d%27Ivoire The English version is hardly better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Ivory_Coast A list of Ivory Coast communities has actually been created (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_communes_de_Côte_d%27Ivoire) but most articles are hardly more than placeholders (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the French version and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the English version). In the past 11 years I have been on Wikipedia, I have discovered that one of the thing newbies love to contribute are articles related to their near life-environment. In short, their village, their city, their neighborhood. It is right now getting much tougher to suggest newbies to fill up some data about their city when they live in France or the US because a lot is already there. But look out a few articles related to villages or cities in Ivory Coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboisso-Comoé (navigate through the cities listed at the bottom). That's MISERABLE. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Populated_places_in_Lagunes to see how are described populated places... je. I actually do not fear too much original research because if Wikipedia does not like it, we can put stuff elsewhere (including on non wikimedia sites). We can create a wikibook to host stories from a famous griot for example, or the coverage of an event on Wikinews. We can probably work on Wikivoyage. Everything is red there... https://fr.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cote_d%27ivoire (and trust me if I tell you that this page is laughable... under the paragraph travel by boat/plane it is written There is a magnificent view, that's extraordinary Yeah right :) I actually do not fear NPOV too much because we can explain what it is about. It would be no different from any other outreach project, whatever the country ! What I could fear is the lack of sources. Indeed, there is a chance that if inhabitants improve the article about their village, they will have a hard time to prove by sources that there are about 500 inhabitants there and that the primary resource is this and that crop. We can rely on strong sources in France. Maybe not so in Ivory Coast. At this point, it will be up to the community to decide if they prefer to keep totally empty articles such as now, or if they can tolerate a number of inhabitants with no source. Best Flo On 10/2/13 4:23 PM, Peter Southwood wrote: Hi Florence, How much of the information is likely to be usable in Wikipedia? Will there be any requirement for reliable references, NPOV and NOR? Will photo-uploads go to commons? Regards, Peter Southwood - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:03 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Dear friends It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new project, Kumusha Takes Wiki. Kumusha Takes Wiki is a project that aims at activating communities across Africa to create and contribute freely-licensed information, texts, images and media about their communities (villages, townships, suburbs, inner cities, etc). It will use community journalism to gather community-relevant information on heritage, culture, notable persons, geographical features, among other things. It will give each community an online presence that is 'owned' by the community, provide information that can be pulled into Wikipedia, Wikimedia projects or OpenStreetMap databases, and it hopes to add immeasurably to the understanding of Africa
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
Hi Florence, No problems with OR for Wikivoyage, which is why I didnt ask... This would be a great opportunity to fill in some of the blank spaces. Perhaps the project could make use of some of the section headings used in Wikivoyage to encourage contributors to provide the specific information that would be useful to the project. Not exclusively of course, but it would make the information much more accessible for re-use, and it might encourage the contributors if they see that their work is appreciated by another project. We are particularly short of good images for African destinations. Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Hi Peter Photo-upload, certainly as much as possible to Commons indeed. That was part of the discussion indeed because the OF was interested in funding a mobile application that would be super high simple to upload photos (in particular with regards to licensing) but would also provide simple tools within the application (such as cropping, light balance and so on). But now that we have the Commons Mobile Application, I think it not a priority. With regards to licensing, I thought it funny that some people would consider the current application as complex with regards to licenses choice. When I first downloaded it and tested it, I was quite horrified by the limited choices... Of course, there will be some work to do around licensing issues (such as a simple to read doc to explain IP rights and conditions in various African countries). With regards to text content, we already planned to have places to host some of the content because I'm pretty sure some of it will not fit in wikipedia with regards to its rules. Isla and I will probably have differing views on this because she is used to working in an artistic environment whilst I am primarily a rather pragmatic engineer. Let me share some of the info we put on the proposal: The geographical article about Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is very short and generic: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Géographie_de_la_Côte_d%27Ivoire The English version is hardly better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Ivory_Coast A list of Ivory Coast communities has actually been created (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_communes_de_Côte_d%27Ivoire) but most articles are hardly more than placeholders (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the French version and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the English version). In the past 11 years I have been on Wikipedia, I have discovered that one of the thing newbies love to contribute are articles related to their near life-environment. In short, their village, their city, their neighborhood. It is right now getting much tougher to suggest newbies to fill up some data about their city when they live in France or the US because a lot is already there. But look out a few articles related to villages or cities in Ivory Coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboisso-Comoé (navigate through the cities listed at the bottom). That's MISERABLE. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Populated_places_in_Lagunes to see how are described populated places... je. I actually do not fear too much original research because if Wikipedia does not like it, we can put stuff elsewhere (including on non wikimedia sites). We can create a wikibook to host stories from a famous griot for example, or the coverage of an event on Wikinews. We can probably work on Wikivoyage. Everything is red there... https://fr.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cote_d%27ivoire (and trust me if I tell you that this page is laughable... under the paragraph travel by boat/plane it is written There is a magnificent view, that's extraordinary Yeah right :) I actually do not fear NPOV too much because we can explain what it is about. It would be no different from any other outreach project, whatever the country ! What I could fear is the lack of sources. Indeed, there is a chance that if inhabitants improve the article about their village, they will have a hard time to prove by sources that there are about 500 inhabitants there and that the primary resource is this and that crop. We can rely on strong sources in France. Maybe not so in Ivory Coast. At this point, it will be up to the community to decide if they prefer to keep totally empty articles such as now, or if they can tolerate a number of inhabitants with no source. Best Flo On 10/2/13 4:23 PM, Peter Southwood wrote: Hi Florence, How much of the information is likely to be usable in Wikipedia? Will there be any requirement for reliable references, NPOV and NOR? Will photo-uploads go to commons? Regards, Peter Southwood - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
On 02.10.2013 14:03, Florence Devouard wrote: Dear friends It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new project, Kumusha Takes Wiki. Hi Florence, you may want to look at WikiVoyage as well. There, we badly need reasonable info on Africa, and it can come without sources as soon as it is not obvious fairy tales. (It is a pity that Russia never had African colonies, so that the Russian Wikivoyage can not immediately benefit from the project). Cheers Yaroslav ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ruwrote: On 02.10.2013 14:03, Florence Devouard wrote: Dear friends It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new project, Kumusha Takes Wiki. Hi Florence, you may want to look at WikiVoyage as well. There, we badly need reasonable info on Africa, and it can come without sources as soon as it is not obvious fairy tales. (It is a pity that Russia never had African colonies, so that the Russian Wikivoyage can not immediately benefit from the project). It might also be worth looking at Wikinews. https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Africa is our category on English Wikinews. ( https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%90%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0 is Russian.) https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/Wikinews has some documents created on editing that might be useful for new contributors. Some one from Wikinews would probably be more than happy to customize learning materials for the project to local needs. Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
Nod I was thinking that it could be an interesting idea to get in touch with local touristic agencies because it is certainly of their interest to make a little bit more information about their area available. I have a French friend for example, who is a geologist and living in a nearby country, and propose those nature-related trecks. I think he could give me a feedback on such an idea. Flo On 10/2/13 5:48 PM, Peter Southwood wrote: Hi Florence, No problems with OR for Wikivoyage, which is why I didnt ask... This would be a great opportunity to fill in some of the blank spaces. Perhaps the project could make use of some of the section headings used in Wikivoyage to encourage contributors to provide the specific information that would be useful to the project. Not exclusively of course, but it would make the information much more accessible for re-use, and it might encourage the contributors if they see that their work is appreciated by another project. We are particularly short of good images for African destinations. Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Hi Peter Photo-upload, certainly as much as possible to Commons indeed. That was part of the discussion indeed because the OF was interested in funding a mobile application that would be super high simple to upload photos (in particular with regards to licensing) but would also provide simple tools within the application (such as cropping, light balance and so on). But now that we have the Commons Mobile Application, I think it not a priority. With regards to licensing, I thought it funny that some people would consider the current application as complex with regards to licenses choice. When I first downloaded it and tested it, I was quite horrified by the limited choices... Of course, there will be some work to do around licensing issues (such as a simple to read doc to explain IP rights and conditions in various African countries). With regards to text content, we already planned to have places to host some of the content because I'm pretty sure some of it will not fit in wikipedia with regards to its rules. Isla and I will probably have differing views on this because she is used to working in an artistic environment whilst I am primarily a rather pragmatic engineer. Let me share some of the info we put on the proposal: The geographical article about Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is very short and generic: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Géographie_de_la_Côte_d%27Ivoire The English version is hardly better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Ivory_Coast A list of Ivory Coast communities has actually been created (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_communes_de_Côte_d%27Ivoire) but most articles are hardly more than placeholders (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the French version and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the English version). In the past 11 years I have been on Wikipedia, I have discovered that one of the thing newbies love to contribute are articles related to their near life-environment. In short, their village, their city, their neighborhood. It is right now getting much tougher to suggest newbies to fill up some data about their city when they live in France or the US because a lot is already there. But look out a few articles related to villages or cities in Ivory Coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboisso-Comoé (navigate through the cities listed at the bottom). That's MISERABLE. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Populated_places_in_Lagunes to see how are described populated places... je. I actually do not fear too much original research because if Wikipedia does not like it, we can put stuff elsewhere (including on non wikimedia sites). We can create a wikibook to host stories from a famous griot for example, or the coverage of an event on Wikinews. We can probably work on Wikivoyage. Everything is red there... https://fr.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cote_d%27ivoire (and trust me if I tell you that this page is laughable... under the paragraph travel by boat/plane it is written There is a magnificent view, that's extraordinary Yeah right :) I actually do not fear NPOV too much because we can explain what it is about. It would be no different from any other outreach project, whatever the country ! What I could fear is the lack of sources. Indeed, there is a chance that if inhabitants improve the article about their village, they will have a hard time to prove by sources that there are about 500 inhabitants there and that the primary resource is this and that crop. We can rely on strong sources in France. Maybe not so in Ivory Coast. At this point, it will be up to the community to decide if they prefer to keep totally empty articles such as now, or if they can tolerate a number of inhabitants
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
On 10/2/13 9:04 PM, Laura Hale wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ruwrote: On 02.10.2013 14:03, Florence Devouard wrote: Dear friends It is my pleasure to announce the launch of a new project, Kumusha Takes Wiki. Hi Florence, you may want to look at WikiVoyage as well. There, we badly need reasonable info on Africa, and it can come without sources as soon as it is not obvious fairy tales. (It is a pity that Russia never had African colonies, so that the Russian Wikivoyage can not immediately benefit from the project). It might also be worth looking at Wikinews. https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Africa is our category on English Wikinews. ( https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%90%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0 is Russian.) https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf/Wikinews has some documents created on editing that might be useful for new contributors. Some one from Wikinews would probably be more than happy to customize learning materials for the project to local needs. Sincerely, Laura Hale Great idea ! Thanks Laura ! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: On 10/2/13 9:04 PM, Laura Hale wrote: It might also be worth looking at Wikinews. [..] documents created on editing that might be useful for new contributors. Some one from Wikinews would probably be more than happy to customize learning materials for the project to local needs. Sincerely, Laura Hale Great idea ! I think that would be setting people up for disappointment. Consider the high bar set out in Laura's own (recommended reading) essay on Wikinews: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newsletter/3/What_news_is_not It is no less exacting than the norms of Wikipedia, and is not an obvious companion to the much looser space Florence was describing in the original post on this thread. A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
You could do that, but we find that tourist agencies tend to misrepresent their regions by misleading advertising. gross exageration and vague descriptions. You may be lucky. Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Nod I was thinking that it could be an interesting idea to get in touch with local touristic agencies because it is certainly of their interest to make a little bit more information about their area available. I have a French friend for example, who is a geologist and living in a nearby country, and propose those nature-related trecks. I think he could give me a feedback on such an idea. Flo On 10/2/13 5:48 PM, Peter Southwood wrote: Hi Florence, No problems with OR for Wikivoyage, which is why I didnt ask... This would be a great opportunity to fill in some of the blank spaces. Perhaps the project could make use of some of the section headings used in Wikivoyage to encourage contributors to provide the specific information that would be useful to the project. Not exclusively of course, but it would make the information much more accessible for re-use, and it might encourage the contributors if they see that their work is appreciated by another project. We are particularly short of good images for African destinations. Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki Hi Peter Photo-upload, certainly as much as possible to Commons indeed. That was part of the discussion indeed because the OF was interested in funding a mobile application that would be super high simple to upload photos (in particular with regards to licensing) but would also provide simple tools within the application (such as cropping, light balance and so on). But now that we have the Commons Mobile Application, I think it not a priority. With regards to licensing, I thought it funny that some people would consider the current application as complex with regards to licenses choice. When I first downloaded it and tested it, I was quite horrified by the limited choices... Of course, there will be some work to do around licensing issues (such as a simple to read doc to explain IP rights and conditions in various African countries). With regards to text content, we already planned to have places to host some of the content because I'm pretty sure some of it will not fit in wikipedia with regards to its rules. Isla and I will probably have differing views on this because she is used to working in an artistic environment whilst I am primarily a rather pragmatic engineer. Let me share some of the info we put on the proposal: The geographical article about Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is very short and generic: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Géographie_de_la_Côte_d%27Ivoire The English version is hardly better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Ivory_Coast A list of Ivory Coast communities has actually been created (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_communes_de_Côte_d%27Ivoire) but most articles are hardly more than placeholders (see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the French version and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacanda for the English version). In the past 11 years I have been on Wikipedia, I have discovered that one of the thing newbies love to contribute are articles related to their near life-environment. In short, their village, their city, their neighborhood. It is right now getting much tougher to suggest newbies to fill up some data about their city when they live in France or the US because a lot is already there. But look out a few articles related to villages or cities in Ivory Coast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboisso-Comoé (navigate through the cities listed at the bottom). That's MISERABLE. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Populated_places_in_Lagunes to see how are described populated places... je. I actually do not fear too much original research because if Wikipedia does not like it, we can put stuff elsewhere (including on non wikimedia sites). We can create a wikibook to host stories from a famous griot for example, or the coverage of an event on Wikinews. We can probably work on Wikivoyage. Everything is red there... https://fr.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Cote_d%27ivoire (and trust me if I tell you that this page is laughable... under the paragraph travel by boat/plane it is written There is a magnificent view, that's extraordinary Yeah right :) I actually do not fear NPOV too much because we can explain what it is about. It would be no different from any other outreach project, whatever the country ! What I could fear is the lack of sources. Indeed, there is a chance that if inhabitants improve the article about
