Hello everyone and thanks for your efforts in bringing this project to life. I just endorsed it.
The Accra training is just some weeks away unfortunately. I would have loved to attend it. Wikimedia Cote d'Ivoire is working closely with a bunch of coders, living in Abidjan but also in other French-speaking regions in Africa such as Senegal, Burkina, etc. This project could serve as a bridge helping these developers embark on the wikimedia endeavour. Looking forward to organizing a similar training here. Cheers, On May 24, 2017 1:27 PM, "Sam Oye" <[email protected]> wrote: This is such a great project; I'll endorse. I look forward to when it'd be coming to Nigeria, cos I'll gladly be part of it :). Sam. ------------------------------ *From:* African-Wikimedians <[email protected]> on behalf of Felix Nartey <[email protected]> *Sent:* 23 May 2017 13:32:11 *To:* olatunde olalekan isaac; Mailing list for African Wikimedians *Cc:* [email protected]; african-wikimedia-developers@l ists.wikimedia.org *Subject:* Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedia Developers Project Thank you all for your encouragement. @Isaac we will certainly check out the links shared and thanks for the endorsement. Cheers, On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Isaac Olatunde <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as > js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. > Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy > that people would be trained on how to contribute to Wikimedia project as > part of this project. From experience, engaging participants after event is > usually not a very easy task, and I think this is one area I think we > really need to work on. This is not a problem peculiar to Africa, it's a > general problem. > > @Felix and Derrick, may I suggest that you take a look at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikicology/Adopt? I adapted from > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WormTT/Adopt/. > > To be honest with you, it really worked. User:Jaybakky > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaybakky> and User:Amunique > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amunique> continued to edit as a > result of that method. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Special:Contributions/Amunique and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Special:Contributions/Jaybakky. Both user stopped editing after my banned > from the English Wikipedia last year since I could no longer continue with > them. One of them stopped in May during my ArbCom case and the other, less > than a month after my banned. This is unfortunate but we just have to live > with it. > > Many thanks to Felix and others for their continued effort to improving > contributions from Africa and Derick for stepping in with a rare skill. > United we stand, divided we fall! > > Regards, > > Isaac > > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Sherry Antoine <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This sounds awesome, >> Cheers, >> Sherry >> >> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project >>> (AWMD) >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1] >>> AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers >>> for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a >>> conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was >>> followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where >>> talks was concluded on how to further put this to work. >>> >>> The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer >>> developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in >>> the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through >>> trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work >>> closely with affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic >>> organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, >>> mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda. >>> >>> To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first >>> training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and >>> create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We >>> intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely >>> monitor for about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The >>> next phase of the project will involve moving to different countries and >>> trying to emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to >>> visit and endorse the grant proposal >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers> >>> of our first training in Ghana here.[2] >>> >>> All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are >>> invited to join the mailing list >>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>, >>> our social media outfit (facebook >>> <https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter >>> <https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki >>> page >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> >>> of the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their >>> communities and to others who may be interested. >>> >>> Stay tuned for more updates soon! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -- >>> *Felix Nartey* >>> *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* >>> *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* >>> *+233242844987 <024%20284%204987> | +447440959477 <+44%207440%20959477>* >>> *Skype:Flixtey* >>> >>> >>> [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_ >>> Project >>> >>> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/Af >>> rican_Wikimedia_Developers >>> >>> [3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimed >>> ia-developers >>> >>> [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/ >>> [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>> >> -- >> >> *Sherry-Ann L. 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