Le 13/03/16 00:40, shola ishola a écrit :
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for my epistles
Dear Asaf,
Thank you for your points and for the links.
Kindly note that you quoted my mail out of context by saying that *I
am being alienated and de motivated because I didn't receive
scholarship*. It's not about "Olaniyan" but about the gross denial of
many groups in Africa, the opportunity of exposure to new knowledge
and information that Wikimania offer to share. Just like you and I
know that, Wikimedia is about community development and no community
can develop without an effective execution of projects. Now tell me,
if you chose just 4 applicants in Africa, how do you want other
communities that were not represented to learn from the
products/outcomes of the event?. Also, if you believed that Wikimedia
is about free sharing of knowledge and information, how can
communities and individual from the alienated groups share their
project with the larger community of Wikimedians?
I want us to read and digest an extract from Wikimania mailing list on
some of the questions raised on issues relating to the selection of
applicants for wikimania scholarship below:
*"Olatunde raises a significant issue in that call for communities to
participate in the community village is demoralising if communities
dont have the opportunity to attend the event which is suppose to be
bringing everyone together. We have the underlying principle of
sharing the sum of all knowledge, if we dont do it internally then we
cant do it successfully externally.
As for the response the process for Wikimania has been changed, in
Mexico last year a decision was taken with many communities unaware
and excluded from the discussion because they didnt have anyone there.
With Wikmania being every 2 years its becomes more significant that
all communities have representatives attend every wikimania otherwise
it ends up isolating communities for 4 years from the whole of the
movement. The scholarship process is also broken and its needs to
be discussed it needs to be reconsidered to allow for the changes”
Submitted by Gnangarra.
*
It seems some of us are comfortable with our minority role in the
movement… and if we continue this way, I wonder what would be the
future of the movement in the continent.
Great thanks to Isla and Florence and others for their roles on the
continent, by providing direction through the introduction of
sustainable platform for collaboration and sharing of knowledge among
the various communities in Africa. Even with this on hand, we still
need a larger forum where all the communities and volunteers who align
with our movement can come together to express themselves year in year
out.
Now that no one knows the fate of Wikiindaba and Wikimania is out of
reach. What next?
Submitted.
Olaniyan Olushola
Director, WUGN
Treasurer, FOSSFA
MD, Olbims Consulting
Phone: +2348154876844
Email: olaniyanshol...@gmail.com <mailto:olaniyanshol...@gmail.com>
Email: olaniyansh...@yahoo.com <mailto:olaniyansh...@yahoo.com>
Email:treasu...@fossfa.net <mailto:email%3atreasu...@fossfa.net>
User page: Olaniyan Olushola
Facebook: Olaniyan Shola
Twitter :Olaniyan73
No one knows the fate of Wikiindaba ???
The fate of WikiIndaba is in your hands. Our hands.
It needs a place. It needs a program. It needs a budget. And it needs a
PEG grant to be asked for before the end of May.
It is quite a bit of work. But that is perfectly feasible.
Flo/
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