[Foundation-l] WikiAfrica invites you to support the Africa Incubator
WikiAfrica is pleased to invite you as a self-declared African Wikipedian to evaluate the Africa Incubator. WikiAfrica has created the Africa Incubator to support and assist new authors, as they create their first articles and learn the ins and outs of contributing to Wikipedia. The Africa Incubator is a âsoft landingâ for new authors to develop articles that relate to Africa. It assists them in becoming compliant and knowledgeable of Wikipedia principles and rules. Based within the Wikipedia framework, the Africa Incubator is fully interactive and enables feedback, assistance and forums. This is where we need your help! For the Africa Incubator to be successful, it needs the intervention, interaction and experience of Incubator Mentors. We are looking for a pool of active experienced Wikipedians to consistently participate in âowningâ the Africa Incubator. Incubator Mentors will assist new comers through the editing process. They will also help test and expand the Africa Incubator, and will play a vital role in encouraging newcomers to be Wikipedians for life Please visit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Incubator] to give us your honest feedback and evaluation. WikiAfrica is a ground-breaking project that is designed to Africanise Wikipedia by generating and expanding 30,000 articles over two years. Find out more about this project here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica]. To get involved, contact Francis [wikiped...@wikiafrica.co.za] Twitter: twitter.com/#!/wikiafrica Facebook: www.facebook.com/WikiAfrica ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Introduction to the WikiAfrica project in Wikipedia
Dear Wikipedian, As you know, with nearly one-billion people,Africa represents the world's third-largest market after China (1.3-billion) and India (1.1-billion), and is widely recognized as the last frontier for global economic growth. It is also where humanity began. And yet it has the lowest and least informed profile of any region on the Internet. What does appear is often not complete, selective, lacks context and reinforces outdated stereotypes. Africa deserves a new deal â and especially in Wikipedia. The Africa Centre in collaboration with Lettera27 would like you to participate in a ground-breaking project that is designed to Africanise Wikipedia by generating and expanding 30,000 articles over two years. The project promotes a new method of acquiring and sharing knowledge that is fully-inclusive, mainstream, intercultural and relevant to contemporary and historic Africa. This initial phase of the project is focused on encouraging external Africa-based, cultural organisations, museums and archives, as well as bloggers and journalists, to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia. The project will be approached and achieve its goals via the following four activities: ⢠Create partnerships with organisations that have existing digitised content that is readily accessible; ⢠Motivate the adaptation of a copyleft or Creative Commons approach to intellectual property. ⢠Activate new Wikipedia users and editors in Africa; and ⢠Create training tools and assist with the mentorships required to activate a new team of users and editors of Wikipedia. See more on this at the Africa Incubator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Incubator] Click on Get started [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Get_started] or the Project page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Projects] to contribute to WikiAfrica and become a member! Through WikiAfrica we aim to increase the content of Africa articles by engaging content partners and individual Wikipedians in the project as a way of improving participation to Wikipedia from the African continent. Thank you Francis Awinda Wikipedian in Residence (user: Awinda) Skype: Awinda Twitter:AwindaF Email:franc...@africacentre.net Tel:+27793087519 www.africacentre.net ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 09 -- 27 February 2012
News and notes: Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/News_and_notes Recent research: Gender gap and conflict aversion; collaboration on breaking news; effects of leadership on participation; legacy of Public Policy Initiative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/Recent_research Discussion report: Focus on admin conduct and editor retention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/Discussion_report WikiProject report: Just don't call it sci-fi: WikiProject Science Fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/WikiProject_report Featured content: By plane, by ship, and by stagecoach: Featured content goes trekking this week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/Featured_content Arbitration report: Final decision in TimidGuy ban appeal, one case remains open http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/Arbitration_report Technology report: 1.19 deployment stress, Meta debates whether to enforce SUL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] (press release) Telenor makes Wikipedia available to 135 million customers in Asia and Europe
(also posted online at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_and_WMF_partner_on_Wikipedia_mobile ) *Telenor makes Wikipedia available to 135 million customers in Asia and Europe* San Francisco, California and Oslo, Norway -- February 28, 2012 --Telenor Group and the Wikimedia Foundation today announced a new partnership to offer Wikipedia free of traffic charges on mobile devices to Telenor customers in Asia and Southeastern Europe. By making versions of Wikipedia available to 135 million mobile customers, Telenor Group and the Wikimedia Foundation demonstrate a shared commitment to increasing access to the free and open knowledge available on Wikipedia. This initiative is part of the Wikimedia Foundation's mobile strategy, which focuses on reaching the billions of people around the world whose primary opportunity to access the Internet is via a mobile device. “The Wikimedia Foundation is working to remove barriers to free knowledge, and for most people around the world right now, cost and accessibility are the two biggest hurdles,” says Barry Newstead, Wikimedia Chief Global Development Officer. “We applaud Telenor for joining us to deliver free access to Wikipedia for their customers. Through this partnership, we move a step closer to providing the sum of all knowledge to everyone in the world.” This partnership supports Telenor's commitment to bring more value to its mobile customers. The company has pioneered the development of value-adding services to rural and underserved communities in Asia. Telenor involve millions in Asia through the I-Genius project, which has already reached out to 300,000 Bangladeshi students and school-children with a call to explore open knowledge on the internet. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with the Wikimedia Foundation. Telenor have pioneered affordable, mobile communications across much of Asia, and we have built a track record of offering vital services with a significant outreach” says Kristin Skogen Lund, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Services at Telenor Group. “With this agreement, we are first in Asia to bring a vast knowledge source to the millions in underserved communities across the region.” The 3-year partnership between Telenor Group and the Wikimedia Foundation will cover 135 million users. The agreement is signed by seven countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Montenegro, and Serbia. By the end of the year, more markets are expected to join. The agreement will be implemented step by step throughout 2012, with the first markets launching during the second quarter. Each local Telenor affiliate will establish technical solutions together with the Wikimedia Foundation. Customers with a Telenor SIM will be able to access a version of the encyclopedia for as many times as they like in a given period, at no charge, as long as they stay within Wikipedia’s pages. For more information, read the Telnor Partnership QA herehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Partnerships/Q_and_A#Telenor_Partnership . *About Telenor* http://www.telenor.com Telenor Group is an international provider of telecom, data and media communication services. Telenor Group has mobile operations in 11 markets in the Nordic region, Central and Eastern Europe and in Asia. The company also has an ownership stake of 36.4 percent in VimpelCom Ltd., operating in 19 markets. Headquartered in Norway, Telenor Group is one of the world’s major mobile operators with 140 million mobile subscriptions in its consolidated operations per Q4 2011, revenues in 2011 of NOK 99 billion, and a workforce of approximately 30,000. *About the Wikimedia Foundation* http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 482 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, January 2012). Available in 282 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 20 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. *Press contacts* *Telenor: *Tor Odland Vice President CommunicationsTelenor Group +47 9909 0872 tor.odl...@telenor.com *Wikimedia Foundation: *Jay Walsh Head of Communications Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885, ext 6609 jwa...@wikimedia.org *(To be unsubscribed from this list, reply with unsubscribe in the subject line.)* ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information
