Hi Deborah, thanks for contacting us. I will send you a private message cc'ing in some key people so as not to spam people on this mailing list.
Regards, Douglas. On 2 June 2018 at 13:26, Deborah S. Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members of Wikimedia ZA, > > Living outside South Africa, I was unable to attend either of the recent > Capacity-Building workshops (meet-ups) with Asaf Bartov. Now it's June and > Wikimedia 2018 is fast approaching - so I'm writing to you all via the > mailing list in hopes of forging a bond of inclusion with Wikimedia ZA, at > least to apprise you of my activities. > > For over ten months I've contributed daily to the Zulu Wikipedia, also for > the past two months in the Xhosa WP. Neither WP has an administrator, and > their few veteran or new editors are active only occasionally. My own > language resources are sparse and I haven't succeeded in developing > contacts who can evaluate my provisional translations. (I work prudently > with Google Translate and avoid creating wrongly named pages and especially > categories.) > > Nonetheless I've made constant progress based on the Special pages: > resolving red links, categorizing, linking with Wikidata, adding bio > data, identifying > duplicate pages, clearing inappropriate content, etc. I do create > stub-quality pages, mainly biographical based on WIkidata and the EN WP. > > Even if other Wikipedians aren't available for consultation, the process of > building these small WPs would benefit from South Africans' input. I'd like > to participate in discussions of developing Afrocentric content and > avoiding cultural bias - e.g., the current eurocentric "Vital articles" > and "Vital 100" have already generated dozens of stubs and hundreds of red > links, while many valid topics in the subcategories of :en:Category:South > Africa are largely absent. > > Ideally these discussions will take place within WP on Talk pages, and not > in listserved or private emails or on Facebook (useful as those channels > are). And board members: I encourage the Wikimedia ZA page on meta be kept > up, particularly as an archive documenting chapter events, and please have > someone regularly review activity on the Talk page there. (Two of my posts > await reply...) > > I'll send this now, with thanks for your having read thus far :- ) > I welcome your responses and am looking forward to our future > collaborations and efforts to improve the Wikipedia projects. > > Sincerely, > Deborah (User:Deborahjay) > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists. > wikimedia.org -- Douglas Ian Scott 司道格 Skype: douglas0scott South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
