African languages:
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=2826
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It's been a while, but I've finally done another update on the state of
the African language Wikipedias:
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=2734
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You are warmly invited to join us for the third Wikimedia South Africa
online Meetup at https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com/ on Saturday July 25
from 10am.
More details at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_3
Thanks David for raising the issue and reaching out.
Can I suggest though that this discussion gets moved to the Afrikaans
Wikipedia talk pages. If the mailing list gets used for every edit
dispute we'd all be swamped!
On 2020/07/15 01:27, David Richfield wrote:
I went to the effort of
ands/2030_movement_brand_project
.
I have two weeks from today to complete the survey, and will appreciate any
feedback by next Wednesday.
Kind regards
Adri Baard
Boardmember
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Reminder about our online Meetup tomorrow (Saturday) from 10am. Hope to
see you there!
On 2020/06/06 22:38, Ian Gilfillan wrote:
You are warmly invited to join us for the second Wikimedia South
Africa online Meetup at https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com/ on Saturday
June 13 from 10am
at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_2
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at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_1
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Congratulations Justice Kobue Legodi, the first South African to be
awarded a PhD in Setswana, in Cultural Semiotics through Unisa.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/unisa-confers-its-first-phd-in-setswana-3241
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_ZA/status/1197955249383919621
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Wikimedia South Africa is awarding a limited number of scholarships to
attend Wikimania in Stockholm in August.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeh0zqYrA2qEAeA6opY0y3IFfPVX3TlT5gv7IqG-GGJeeLm0w/viewform?usp=sf_link
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Hi
Time for the latest instalment on the state of the African language
Wikipedias (and after a long break, Wiktionaries)
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=2503
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Hi
Minutes from the new board's first meeting, held last week, are up at
http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Board_Meeting_6_November_2018
We also invite everyone to join our new Zulip instance, at
https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com
Zulip is an open-source collaboration tool used for team
There was a record turnout for Saturday's Wikimedia South Africa AGM,
with about two thirds attending in person, and the the rest virtually.
Thanks to everyone that participated.
There was discussion about new projects for 2018, the election of a new
board (5 members re-elected, 4 new
Here's the latest African language Wikipedia update:
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=2244
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Sure, the Wikimedia ZA Twitter account is
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_ZA and the individual tweet was
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_ZA/status/997046800891686913
On 17/05/2018 15:43, Ian Gilfillan wrote:
Ian,
Could you share links to the tweets? I will most definitely retweet.
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Thanks Douglas, I've added to Facebook and Twitter. It would help if
others share and retweet on those channels as well.
On 16/05/2018 22:53, Douglas Scott wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am writing to ask you to consider coming in person to a crucial meeting
of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee
This new user right will come in very useful, so I suggest that those
who have been or may in future be running editathons apply:
Forwarded Message
Subject:[African Wikimedians] New user right: event coordinator
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 15:04:28 +0100
From: Asaf
Hi
This is probably most relevant to Afrikaans Wikipedia users - there's a
project on the Finnish Wikipedia to map edits to find out which
countries have had most influence on trusted content. I'd be interested
to see results locally if someone has the time and interest to follow
up.
Hi
This article is one of the many locally that misunderstands how
Wikipedia works:
http://www.politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/carl-niehaus-called-an-embarrassment-to-the-human-
It would be good as WikimediaZA to respond to these kind of things.
Unfortunately I'm off very shortly and will
Eish I know Tebello it's been almost 5 years now so I think that's more
than enough time to teach someone a lesson.
See the instructions on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2nd_chance
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Hi Linda
In 2013 you attempted to use Wikipedia to promote your website/company
and were blocked after repeatedly ignoring warnings and creating
sockpuppet accounts to try get around the initial blocks. The reasons
for this block were clearly explained at the time.
Wikipedia is an
Hi
I've take another look at the state of the African-language Wikipedias,
and, like last time, there are some positive signs:
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1980
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A request for help with developing an offline reading feature from the
Wikimedia Foundation, particularly from people that don't know Wikipedia
well.
Forwarded Message
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Supporting offline reading: Looking for
testers
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016
Hi Linda
Your account was blocked in the past as it was almost exclusively used
for spam/self-promotion. The best way forward would probably be to
follow the instructions on the 2nd Chance page -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2nd_chance
Basically, read up on Wikipedia policies,
Hi
Here's another update on the state of the African language Wikipedias.
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1772
ian
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Hi
I've taken another look at the status of some of the African language
Wikimedia projects at
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1348
For those coming to the Wiki Indaba, see you there tomorrow.
ian
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Hi
Here's the latest African language update:
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1108
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Latest update on the progress of the African language Wikipedias is up at
http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=1029
Afrikaans has passed Swahili once again, and there are signs of life in
Northern Sotho and Zulu as well.
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Hi
Just to inform everyone, I have resigned from the board of Wikimedia ZA.
Regards,
Ian Gilfillan
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