Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help on Yoruba Wikipedia Project

2015-11-15 Thread reachout2isaac
Dear all, I don't know if it is appropriate to discuss this here but I believe I can get a useful advice here. The Nigerian language Wikipedia projects (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) need urgent attention. English language is the official language in Nigeria but the Yoruba language constitutes one of

[Wikimedia-l] Help

2015-10-15 Thread reachout2isaac
Hello Wikimedian Colleagues, I tried to send a mail to affiliates-own...@lists.wikimedia.org but all to no avail. It seems the e-mail address is currently not working. Any help? Olatunde Isaac. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -Original Message- From:

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

2016-02-09 Thread reachout2isaac
Congratulations to Maithili Wikimedians User Group. Best, Olatunde Isaac, Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Nigeria Phone: +2348166620737  Email: reachout2is...@gmail.com  User page: Wikicology  Facebook: Olatunde Olalekan Isaac. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The reinstatement of James Heilman (Olatunde Isaac)

2016-02-27 Thread reachout2isaac
Personally, i'm not sure if James would like to be reinstated but I think the involuntarily removal of a community elected member without community consultation is barbaric and unethical. However. In my perception, I believe Maria Sefidari's appointment is "interim", perhaps for a fresh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

2016-02-18 Thread reachout2isaac
Dear Ido. I share your concern about these problems and thanks for exercising your right to voice your concerns. I'm a bit worried about the potentially devastating effects of these problems on the Wikimedia Projects. Personally, I don't want to have any reason to lose confidence in the BoT

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT (Olatunde Isaa)

2016-02-20 Thread reachout2isaac
The BoT have made some mistakes in the past few days, in the ways they've handled information, silent on critical situation that requires urgent clarification, and how they kept the community in the dark about certain decision. This is painful and that was a poor decision on their part. We have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disabe Media Viewer for non-logged-in users and logged-in users on Wikimedia Commons

2016-03-14 Thread reachout2isaac
While this might be a valid request, I'm a bit concern about the % of the participants in the RFC. I don't think it's a good idea for this % of participant to make a binding decision for an entirely disjoint community many hundred if not thousand times it size with neither participation nor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Community Village and Meetups at Wikimania 2016

2016-03-11 Thread reachout2isaac
Hi Ginevra, No scholarship was awarded to any member of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. This is worrisome as Nigeria will not be represented at Wikimania. I don't think this is a good idea and I wonder why American and European countries have more representative than Africa. This is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Community Village and Meetups at Wikimania 2016

2016-03-11 Thread reachout2isaac
Hi Ginevra, No scholarship was awarded to any member of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. This is worrisome as Nigeria will not be represented at Wikimania. I don't think this is a good idea and I wonder why American and European countries have more representative than Africa. This is