[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Congratulations to our friends from Togo; welcome to the community.

Regards

On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 6:20 PM Affiliations Committee 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> The group aims to contribute to the creation of free knowledge in Togo.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Jeffrey Keefer
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/2024/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_of_Togo_User_Group
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_of_Togo_User_Group__
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Senegal

[Olushola Olaniyan]

This is long-awaited, congratulations.

*Olaniyan Ishola Olushola*







*CEO. Data Access Systems LtdChairman Local Organizing Committee
(WikiIndaba2019)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2019/Team>Co-Producer,
Wikipedia
Campaign in Nigeria
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=AUBPd3PTas0> ( Winner of
the Best NGO in Africa  ( African Excellence Award 2018)
<https://af-pr.excellence-awards.com/winnerlist/best-of-2018/>) Dublin,
Republic of Ireland. Co-Producer , Wiki Women Radio
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Women_Radio_Program>President, Wikimedia
Nigeria <https://wikimedia.org.ng/>Treasurer, FOSSFAMember, Affiliates
Committee ( Wikimedia Foundation)*

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On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 9:21 AM Affiliations Committee 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Senegal [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> The group aims to promote the free sharing of knowledge, as well as writing
> and improving community projects in Senegal.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeffrey Keefer
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Senegal
>
>
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_S%C3%A9n%C3%A9gal
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Launch of the course "OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics"

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thumb up for the team!

*Olaniyan Ishola Olushola*







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On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 1:01 PM Giovanna Fontenelle <
gfontene...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> We are happy to announce that there is now a free and publicly accessible
> course on the learning platform, WikiLearn, on how to upload and edit files
> on Wikimedia Commons using OpenRefine: *OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons:
> the basics*
> <https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/about>
> .
>
> OpenRefine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine> is a free
> data-wrangling tool that can be used to process, manipulate, and clean
> tabular (spreadsheet) data and connect it with knowledge bases, including
> Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.
>
> This online course is available at any time, for free. Anyone with a
> Wikimedia account can enroll with the click of a button. It can be followed
> at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate is awarded
> at the end to those who complete the course.
>
> The training is suitable for Wikimedians, Wikimedia affiliate staff, and
> partners (e.g. GLAM staff and Wikimedians in Residence). Accomplishing the
> course should take an average of 6 to 8 hours.
>
> This course was developed as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's training
> and sustainability grant to OpenRefine
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OpenRefine/Training_2023-24>.
> It is currently available in English and can be easily translated into
> other languages (more about the translation process here
> <https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/> and here
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course_content_in_WikiLearn.webm>).
> Translations for this course in French, Spanish, and Portuguese are being
> worked on and will be available very soon.
>
> Please, feel free to share this course with people you think might be
> interested in learning more about OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons, who are
> part of your network, in groups, social media, or any other places.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best,
> Giovanna & Sandra
>
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>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Celebrating Donatien Kangah

[Olushola Olaniyan]

A big congratulations to my very good friend and brother. This is
long-awaited, and I am glad you got it. The result of your work in the
movement speaks for itself.
Again, this is a double congratulations. As a football fan that I am, I
don't agree that the Nations Cup should go to the Ivory Coast because we
were better on the day than your team. Nevertheless, it's a big win for you
and your country.

Remember, to whom much is given, much is expected.

More WINS!

Cheers

ISO



On Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 1:15 PM Bobby Shabangu 
wrote:

> Congratulations to you Donatien and once again congratulations to Ivory
> Coast for winning the CAF championship. 😍
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 11:54, Mahuton Possoupe 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Wikimedia projects would not be possible without the work of the
>> countless volunteers, passionately working on bringing free knowledge to
>> the world. This month we Wikicelebrate
>> one of
>> such volunteers: Donatien Kangah (User:Papischou), a Wikimedian from Côte
>> d'Ivoire, editor of French language Wikipedia, a community leader active on
>> local, regional, and global levels, a huge football fan, and the co-creator
>> of the Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire.
>>
>> Donatien is an experienced Wikipedia trainer, and a member of Wikifranca
>> micro grant committee. He supported Wikimania through his activity in the
>> scholarship committee, worked in the capacity building group for Movement
>> Strategy and collaborated with communities from Senegal, Togo, Chad and
>> Guinea. Most of his engagement is connected to the Community User Group
>> Côte d'Ivoire, which he co-founded and which he now leads.
>>
>> For Donatien the value of editing lies in learning through sharing. “Each
>> act of sharing knowledge in Wikipedia is about checking sources,
>> discovering new facts. Even if I already know a lot about the topic, I
>> discover new facts in sources. It is like swimming in information. Sharing
>> knowledge is not a passive process, it is a constant discovery. Through
>> contributing I have learned a lot about my country, Africa and the world.
>> Editing allows you to grow through giving”, says Donatien.
>>
>> Learn more about Donatien, and his amazing work on Diff
>> 
>> or on Meta .
>>
>> Each month we WikiCelebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the
>> amazing community, the pillars of our movement. We warmly invite you to
>> participate in the celebrations. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that
>> you think should be celebrated, recommend
>> them.
>>
>>
>> Happy Celebrating,
>>
>> Mahuton, Mehrdad and Natalia
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia ZA 22-23 Annual Report

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Hi Bobby,

Thank you for sharing this report; it is thought-provoking; your copyright
advocacy caught my attention, and I am glad to read in detail your
activities around it because they resonate with our area of focus for 2024
(although not to be funded by WMF in our 2024 Fiscal year).

In 2023, the Nigerian government amended our copyright law ( with little or
no engagement with other stakeholders in this space), restricting our
Freedom of Panorama (FOP) to only audiovisual and broadcasting and
introducing the Data Protection Act 2023. As a new amendment and law, We
have yet to determine its impact on our community and open movement in the
country. So, we are working on an immediate plan to engage this change,
which will set the pace for advocacy in this field.

So, your report is an eye-opener, and we need to meet with your team for a
knowledge exchange soon to learn from your work.

Regards

*ISO*

On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 1:22 PM Bobby Shabangu 
wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> Wikimedia ZA has not shared its report to these streets for a long time.
> But following in the footsteps of other Usergroups who share with us their
> reports here I'm also excited to share with you our Wikimedia ZA 2022-23
> Annual report
> 
> .
>
> We tried to keep the report succinct and to the point highlighting the
> results and impact of our activities.
>
> Enjoy and let us know here or at my email:bobby.shaba...@wikimedia.org.za
> if you have questions or think we could collaborate on projects in the
> future.
>
> Best regards,
> Bobby Shabangu
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Ghana User Group 2023 Annual Report

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you for sharing this amazing report.

Cheers.

On Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 7:45 PM Justice Okai-Allotey 
wrote:

> Hello Wikimedians!
>
> Find here the link to the annual report 2023 of Wikimedia Ghana User Group
> available on Meta:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_Annual_Report_2023
> .
>
> Here is a short summary of what you will find in our report:
>
> *In 2023, to increase participation in Wikimedia projects we recruited and
> trained 358 unique new Ghanaian contributors nationally, and channelled 349
> of these contributors into content creation where they joined existing
> editors contributing to Wikipedia. This was done through 36 national online
> and offline events.*
>
> *Through community development work, we took steps to further immerse 439
> new and existing editors in our movement.*
>
> *We completed a special project outside our regular programs as a campaign
> partner for the Wikidata For Education
> . We
> organized ten events with 108 participants, both in Accra and Kumasi.
> About 200 articles were created and edited, 3.25 million views on the
> articles and over 200 Wikimedia Commons uploads of the campaign.*
>
> *In our policy and advocacy work to contribute to an enabling environment
> for free and open online knowledge in Ghana, which is a necessity for our
> mission, we continued preparing our educational materials towards Panorama
> Freedom  advocacy work.*
>
> Keep updated via our website (https://wmgh.org/) and our social media
> channels (@wikimediagh on Twitter, @wikimediaghana on Instagram and
> Wikimedia Ghana User Group on Facebook & LinkedIn).
>
> You can also connect with us on our Meta discussion page (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group).
>
> Thank You.
>
>
>
>
> --
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> *Board Member Wikimedia Ghana User Group *
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> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Celebrating Alice Kibombo

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Alice, congratulations!

This is a well-deserved recognition.

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:35 PM Belinda Mbambo  wrote:

>
> Hello, Muli mutya!
>
>
> It’s no secret that librarians make amazing Wikimedians. Whether it is
> because of the shared passion for knowledge or superpowers in working with
> sources, databases and categories, or the simple fact that librarians are
> just great human beings, we know that they thrive in the Wikimedia projects.
>
> Today, we Wikicelebrate
> a truly
> amazing Wikimedian and librarian: Alice Kibombo
>  – a contributor to
> Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource
> ,
> and the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, a #1lib1ref trainer
> , and, in her
> Wikimedian in Residence role, personally trained ~180 English-speaking
> librarians in Wikidata!. From a common start as a Wikipedia reader to a
> transformative role as a teacher and community supporter, Alice Kibombo has
> become an inspiring figure in the pursuit of barrier-free access to the sum
> of human knowledge
>
> As she says: “Participating in the Wikimedia Movement has offered me the
> responsibility to be a more responsible contributor, a  community resource
> person as well as a teacher.”
>
> Learn more about Alice on Diff
> 
>  as
> we WikiCelebrate her incredible dedication to free knowledge.
>
> Each month we WikiCelebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the
> amazing community, the pillars of our movement. We warmly invite you to
> participate in the celebrations. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that
> you think should be celebrated, recommend
> them.
>
> Happy celebrating!
>
> Winnie, Natalia, and Belinda
>
> *Belinda Mbambo*
> Senior Manager: Global Movement Communications
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[Wikimedia-l] Presenting Annual Activities Report (2022-2023) of Wikimedia UG Nigeria

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear all,

Greetings!


We are glad to announce and share our annual activities for 2022-2023.


We thank everyone who has supported us directly and indirectly in achieving
our goals for the year under review.


The report is here

for you to look over, and feel free to contact us for further
clarifications.


And a big gratitude goes to WMF and our members for their unwavering
support.


Yours sincerely

ISO
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you, Amir. This tool comes in handy and will be very helpful for the
communities preparing for edit-a+thon.



Thanks a lot for this information.

Cheers.


On Sun, Sep 17, 2023, 9:31 PM Amir Sarabadani  wrote:

> Hi,
> TLDR: There is now a tool that gives you list of articles to improve or
> create based on WikiProjects of English Wikipedia. For example, articles of
> top importance in WikiProject Mathematics that are missing or short in
> Azeri Wikipedia:
> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=az&topic=Mathematics&importance=Top
>
> (I'm sorry for spamming your mailboxes, but I couldn't find a place to
> bring this up that would be more fitting.)
>
> This tool basically gets the list of articles of a given wikiproject of a
> given importance and tells you which ones are missing are below 10K bytes
> in the given target language.
>
> For example:
>
>- For WikiProject Physics and target of Hungarian Wikipedia, you get
>[2] saying article of Speed is missing while existing in 79 wikis and
>article of Molekulapálya [3] is the shortest article of this importance
>with ~700 bytes.
>- For Wikiproject Poland and target of Dutch Wikipedia, you get [1]
>saying article of "Ignacy Mościcki" is missing in Dutch Wikipedia while
>existing in 38 other languages (and many more articles to create or 
> improve)
>- For Wikiproject Computer Science and target of Vietnamese Wikipedia,
>you get [4] saying article of "Alonzo Church" exists in 50 wikipedias but
>not in Vietnamese Wikipedia (and more articles to create or improve in
>field of computer science)
>- and many more but you get the idea.
>
> It is not perfect, for example the concept of importance and what articles
> belong to them is not perfect but it's better than nothing.
>
> I find this useful in events and editathons where a newcomer asks "I'm
> interested in topic X what can I do?" and you can give them at least
> something to work on. Or for small or medium wikis to find gaps in their
> content in given topics.
>
> Noting that there are more than 2,800 WikiProjects in English Wikipedia,
> the topics to pick are quite broad. From Olivia Roderigo [5] to Rome [6] to
> Soap Operas [7] to Trains [8]. Hope that'd be useful for you.
>
> If anyone is feeling comfortable to help maintain or add features to it,
> please let me know. I wrote this in four or five hours, it's quite basic
> and more of a PoC of what it could become.
>
> [1] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=nl&topic=Poland&importance=Top
> [2] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=hu&topic=Physics&importance=Top
> [3] https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molekulap%C3%A1lya
> [4]:
> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=vi&topic=Computer+science&importance=Top
> [5]
> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Olivia+Rodrigo&importance=Top
> [6] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Rome&importance=Top
> [7]
> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Soap+Operas&importance=Top
> [8] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa&topic=Trains&importance=Top
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikidata] [Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects] New Product Manager Joins Wikimedia Deutschland

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Congratulations,

It's nice to see you, here.

Regards.

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 1:37 PM Ifeatu Nnaobi 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Ifeatu
> , and I'm
> writing to introduce myself as the Product Manager for the Wikidata and
> Wikimedia Projects team.
>
> The Wikidata for the Wikimedia Projects team is a new team at Wikimedia
> Deutschland (WMDE) that wants to provide structured data support to other
> Wikis in the Wikimedia movement. The team is part of the Linked Open Data
> (LOD) group at WMDE. It will work closely with Lydia Pintscher (Portfolio
> Lead Product Manager for Wikidata) and other LOD team members to establish
> sustainable structures to support collaborations between Wikidata and the
> other Wikimedia projects.
>
> I joined the team in June 2023, and current team member Danny Benjafield
> (Community Communications Manager) and I are exploring ways to build tools
> and features in a community-centred way. This means learning about existing
> initiatives between Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects and examining new
> insights into fostering Wikidata integrations that are collaborative,
> multilingual and provide high-quality data for projects of different shapes
> and sizes.
>
> My background is in interactive media focused on queer, feminist, and
> migrant narratives. As someone from the global majority, it's imperative to
> contribute to improving Wikidata's ability to accommodate diverse ways of
> knowledge contribution and consumption.
>
> As the new team settles in, our big task for the year is interacting with
> community members from various backgrounds and perspectives to understand
> what makes collaboration between Wikidata and Wikimedia projects
> challenging. Please stay tuned for our announcements on how we will do this.
>
> In the meantime, please email me (ifeatu.nna...@wikimedia.de) or leave a
> note on my Meta Talk page
>  if you already
> have something to share.
>
> Thrilled to be here,
>
> --
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation launches Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards on World Press Freedom Day

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you, Effe, for your feedback; I've noted that.

This initiative is entirely new, with journalists who are also not
Wikimedians as the target audience. With this view in mind, we agreed to
engage only African Wikimedians and those who have worked with journalists
to understand their thoughts and opinions about the project and prepare us
(the working group) for engaging with the target audience and the project's
impact on our community. Yes, this might need to extend to all the African
Wikimedians and their communities. Still, as earlier mentioned, this is the
maiden edition, and we are ready to learn from its outcome through a
thorough evaluation (after the end of this edition), conversations, and
further engagement with our communities.

The Working Group remains accessible to the community, and we invite you to
engage us, ask questions, and share your thoughts and suggestions on key
things you would like us to consider in the screening phase of submissions
and future editions as well.

Cheers

Shola

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 12:43 PM Ndahiro Derrick Alter <
ndahiroder...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot, Euphemia and Olushola,
>
> As someone who was involved in the discussions about this initiative, I
> believe it is a positive endeavor and there is no need to be concerned
> about language diversity with the chosen language. This project is a trial
> run, and the insights gained from its execution will guide future efforts
> that will include other languages like Swahili, Kinyarwanda, Luganda, and
> more.
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 5 May 2023 at 11:28, Euphemia Uwandu  wrote:
>
>> Dear Olushola,
>>
>> Thank you for sharing the work that went into the initiative. I had
>> participated as a volunteer community member with a host of others from the
>> African communities in the community conversations to co-create the
>> initiative. There was an acknowledgement that this is a pilot and openness
>> to learn as well from the work that will be done in this first time. And
>> that is what is very important to acknowledge in order to shape the
>> initiative to better serve its purpose.
>>
>> Really looking forward to the success of this initiative and how we can
>> use it to do our work better as a community.
>>
>> Kindly,
>> Euphemia
>>
>> On Thu, May 4, 2023, 9:48 PM Olushola Olaniyan 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> *Dear all, *
>>>
>>>
>>> *My name is Olushola (User: Olaniyan Olushola). I am from Africa and
>>> have been a Wikimedia since 2014 and passionate about language. I co-lead
>>> the Oral History documentation of Nigerian indigenous languages ( see more
>>> about it **here*
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Language_Oral_History_Documentation_Project/Gallery>
>>> * ). *I am part and parcel of the working group for this Journalism
>>> Award. Together with other community members and some foundation staff, we
>>> have co-created the submission guidelines and award criteria, including
>>> that articles should be English language articles published in a major
>>> outlet.
>>>
>>>
>>> Everything regarding the rationale for this award is being done in
>>> consultation with members of our African communities, aligned with our
>>> goals to increase exposure for the work we love in the region and close
>>> knowledge gaps.
>>>
>>>
>>> One thing to mention is that articles about Africa, especially written
>>> by journalists with a local perspective, must be better represented in our
>>> language Wikipedias, including English.
>>>
>>>
>>> With this being a brand-new initiative, it was the best time to learn.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is a pilot, and we all see this as an experiment to draw more
>>> attention to journalists' important role as content creators on Wikipedia.
>>>
>>>
>>> You will agree that we need to celebrate existing journalism excellence
>>> that helps fill knowledge gaps online.
>>>
>>>
>>> The working group conferred, and since this is a pilot, we decided
>>> together that it was a good idea to consider the need to limit the scope to
>>> collect data and insights easily. We understand the sentiment behind
>>> language in Africa and beyond, and we always wanted to keep everything
>>> simple. We know that no language is superior to the other, so this is a
>>> pilot. From here, we will likely assess the impact we can have before
>>> scaling.
>>>
>>>
>>> We wish to expand thi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation launches Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards on World Press Freedom Day

[Olushola Olaniyan]

*Dear all, *


*My name is Olushola (User: Olaniyan Olushola). I am from Africa and have
been a Wikimedia since 2014 and passionate about language. I co-lead the
Oral History documentation of Nigerian indigenous languages ( see more
about it **here*

* ). *I am part and parcel of the working group for this Journalism Award.
Together with other community members and some foundation staff, we have
co-created the submission guidelines and award criteria, including that
articles should be English language articles published in a major outlet.


Everything regarding the rationale for this award is being done in
consultation with members of our African communities, aligned with our
goals to increase exposure for the work we love in the region and close
knowledge gaps.


One thing to mention is that articles about Africa, especially written by
journalists with a local perspective, must be better represented in our
language Wikipedias, including English.


With this being a brand-new initiative, it was the best time to learn.


It is a pilot, and we all see this as an experiment to draw more attention
to journalists' important role as content creators on Wikipedia.


You will agree that we need to celebrate existing journalism excellence
that helps fill knowledge gaps online.


The working group conferred, and since this is a pilot, we decided together
that it was a good idea to consider the need to limit the scope to collect
data and insights easily. We understand the sentiment behind language in
Africa and beyond, and we always wanted to keep everything simple. We know
that no language is superior to the other, so this is a pilot. From here,
we will likely assess the impact we can have before scaling.


We wish to expand this initiative with more regional volunteers should it
succeed - and we hope it will.


We already have more than a hundred entries!


Thank you

Shola
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia UG Nigeria : Submission of our Annual activities and Financial Report for the Year 2021-2022

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you for your reply.

The item was added for reporting's sake to provide clarity.

The figure was not summed up to the total figure.

Regards.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 8:45 AM godstim e e 
wrote:

> Thank you Sir.
>
>
>  Please I'd like to know why funding item for the Wiki Fan Club Ilorin is
> in the report when clearly there is no funding yet. Wouldn't it be better
> if its omitted rather than included?
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
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>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 8:34 PM, Florence Devouard
>  wrote:
> Thank you Shola
>
> Flo
>
>
> Le 24/11/2022 à 22:35, Olushola Olaniyan a écrit :
> >
> > Dear friends!
> >
> > Greetings from Lagos, Nigeria.
> >
> > As a requirement by the Wikimedia Affiliate committee, we are glad to
> > inform you of the submission of our annual activities and financial
> > report FTY 2021-2022 (1) (2).
> >
> > We thank and appreciate every individual and organization that has
> > supported and collaborated with us to achieve the set objectives for
> > the year.
> >
> > We hope to continue on this note with you in the ongoing year.
> >
> > Please feel free to read and learn from our work. We will be available
> > to attend to questions on the submitted report.
> >
> > Ref. (1)
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Reports/2021-2022
> > (2)
> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cYS_6V6nWxS3z1AGhzvgkdhmueP3BoKY/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101598098093447600139&rtpof=true&sd=true
>
> > <
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cYS_6V6nWxS3z1AGhzvgkdhmueP3BoKY/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101598098093447600139&rtpof=true&sd=true
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> > Olaniyan Olushola
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia UG Nigeria : Submission of our Annual activities and Financial Report for the Year 2021-2022

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear friends!

Greetings from Lagos, Nigeria.

As a requirement by the Wikimedia Affiliate committee, we are glad to
inform you of the submission of our annual activities and financial report
FTY 2021-2022 (1) (2).

We thank and appreciate every individual and organization that has
supported and collaborated with us to achieve the set objectives for the
year.

We hope to continue on this note with you in the ongoing year.

Please feel free to read and learn from our work. We will be available to
attend to questions on the submitted report.

Ref. (1)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Reports/2021-2022
(2)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cYS_6V6nWxS3z1AGhzvgkdhmueP3BoKY/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101598098093447600139&rtpof=true&sd=true

Best regards
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Nine Month Update & Foundation Leadership Team

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you, Maryana for the highlights, they came very handy.
I will continue to resonate on them. Cheers

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 5:52 PM Maryana Iskander 
wrote:

> This message is being translated into other languages on Meta-wiki. ‎You
> can help with more languages.
> 
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> I’ve started my ninth official month as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation.
> Based on feedback from this list and elsewhere, I am trying to proactively
> communicate every few months on my priorities and what I continue to learn.
>
>
>
> I regularly return to the five ‘puzzles’
> 
> I identified in my original letter to you. For me, these continue to pose
> big questions about our role in the world and our ways of working with each
> other. I’ve mentioned that one highlight of the year so far has been
> bringing colleagues together – volunteers, editors, affiliates, Foundation
> staff, board members – to reconnect at a human level. Many of you have
> shared with me the need for more spaces that can help us build (and
> rebuild) relationships and trust.
>
>
>
> As more communities return to in-person events, I have benefitted from
> spending time with volunteers at WikiCon Brasil and at the Wikimania meetup
> hosted in Cape Town. I look forward to participating in-person and
> virtually at many more regional gatherings in the months ahead.
>
>
>
> I am writing today to provide you with an update on the three priorities I
> identified in January.
>
> Priority 1: Strategy and Planning
>
> My first priority remains focused on strategy and planning. In June, we
> shared the successful adoption of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Annual Plan
> .
> It is now anchored in the strategic direction of our movement – knowledge
> equity and knowledge as a service – and it identifies the Foundation’s
> strengthened focus on regions and on projects. This plan benefited from the
> contributions and feedback of hundreds of volunteers who provided input
> on-wiki and through other multilingual channels of communication. We’ll
> share updates on progress before the end of the calendar year on the Annual
> Plan meta page and in other forums. Our intention is to continue asking for
> guidance and input from volunteers, affiliates, and communities.
>
> I mentioned in my April message that the Wikimedia Foundation has grown
> very rapidly over the past 3 years as part of its medium term plan – 
> increasing
> its budget by more than 30% in the past year with the addition of more than
> 200 new people since 2020. This growth will not continue as we stabilize
> and make sure that new resources are delivering maximum impact for our
> mission. The Foundation’s approved budget represents a 17% increase, most
> of this is inflationary and other year-on-year costs. Funding to other
> movement entities (individual and affiliate) grew by 24% percent.
>
> While the annual plan is an important start, it does not address all of
> the significant strategic issues facing Wikimedia – none of which can be
> solved in a single year. Within the framework of our movement strategy and
> emerging charter, I plan to continue partnering with Foundation
> stakeholders and communities in co-planning approaches to tackle strategic
> issues that an annual plan cannot fully address. The Board of Trustees will
> help kick this off with strategic planning engagements at the board’s
> upcoming meeting in Berlin. This will be followed by important
> conversations about strategy implementation at the Wikimedia Summit
>  (returning for
> the first time since 2019).
>
> Priority 2: Leadership
>
> I highlighted in January that CEO transitions are disruptive for most
> organisations and change often continues after a new leader has arrived. I
> have been trying to build a broader leadership team at the Wikimedia
> Foundation as I focus on successfully onboarding new hires, investing
> more in internal talent management, undertaking succession planning for key
> roles, and providing stronger communications support for the Foundation’s
> senior team.
>
> Product/Technology
>
> My top priority when I joined was to actively step in and support the
> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
> leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and
> Technology Officer. This goal has been achieved
> 
> as Selena Deckelmann is now officially on board at the Wikimedia
> Foundation after a successful nine-year career at Mozilla, most recently as
> the head of Firefox. She is reaching out to l

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[Olushola Olaniyan]

This is an exciting news.

 Selena, we are glad to welcome you to our movement.

regards.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:10 PM Maryana Iskander 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
> priorities
> 
> coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the
> Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive
> leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and
> Technology Officer.
>
> I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be joining
> the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in Portland, Oregon in
> the United States.
>
> Selena is currently the Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she has
> been for the last nine years. She leads the Firefox organization of more
> than 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology
> functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services.
>
> I have gotten to know Selena over several months and also learned from
> people who have worked with her over many years. She is known for
> successfully driving change by getting stakeholders aligned around what’s
> needed, and being seen as a trusted partner. Selena has built strong
> credibility over many years with colleagues and also with a broader
> developer community. She is described as a leader who can make the tough
> decisions, develop skills, grow diverse contributors, and inspire teams.
> She also has a great laugh and looks for joy in her work!
>
> As context for the recruitment process: given the critical need to get
> this right, we used two firms with global search expertise who
> specialized in product/technology executive leadership roles. This meant
> double the work, but allowed us to more quickly build a large, globally
> diverse pool of over 500 candidates. Once we identified a smaller number of
> finalists, they participated in real-life case studies of some of our
> current challenges and met with Wikimedia stakeholders over the course of
> many months.
>
> As you all know, we have a highly unique and sometimes difficult
> environment with a multifaceted mission, complex structure, and often
> competing stakeholders. This is going to be a challenge for anyone,
> especially given the steep learning curve at Wikimedia (which I can confirm
> from my own experience!). I hope you will sign up to help me successfully
> onboard Selena as she gets started!
>
> Selena will share her own message with you shortly, and she can be reached
> directly at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org.
>
> Maryana
>
> Maryana Iskander
>
> Wikimedia Foundation CEO
>
> ***
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-selena-deckelmann/
>
>
> Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and
> Technology Officer
>
> 13 June 2022, San Francisco  — The Wikimedia Foundation today announced
> the appointment of Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and Technology
> Officer. Selena is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Mozilla,
> where she was responsible for Firefox. She will officially join on August
> 1, 2022.
>
> Selena will lead the product and technology teams at the Wikimedia
> Foundation. These teams support the technology infrastructure and
> innovation that powers Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, one of the
> most visited websites in the world with more than 16 billion pageviews per
> month. They also enable more than 300,000 global volunteers to edit
> Wikimedia projects each month.
>
> “Selena has a proven track record of delivering results by enabling
> individuals and teams to tackle unique and often complex challenges,” said
> Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. “She has dedicated her
> career to open source technologies for empowerment and inclusion.”
>
> At Mozilla, where she has been for nearly a decade, Selena currently leads
> the Firefox organization of more than 400 people responsible for all
> Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web
> platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s most
> significant achievements including performance projects like Quantum Flow,
> architectural changes like Project Fission, key features like Enhanced
> Tracking Protection and Total Cookie Protection, and services such as
> Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other
> roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web
> Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko
> Security Engineering.
>
> Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of
> Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to
> improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and
> as Consulting Direct

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online self-guided courses now available on WikiLearn platform

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Wow! I am just seeing this, now.

Sincerely, this is a great initiative. Already, our affiliate is working on
developing a very similar program (WikiAcademy), and we plan to launch it
in June. We will be glad to learn from the team.

All the same, I am glad about what I am seeing.

Olushola

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 6:25 PM Cassie Casares 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The Community Development team
>  is pleased to
> announce the courses that were delivered during the WikiLearn Pilot
>  are now available for
> self-guided study on the new WikiLearn platform ,
> based on the free software Open edX.
> 
> Open edX
> 
> is a free software learning management system that was started in 2012, and
> is developed in Python using the Django framework.
>
> The platform will host courses developed by Wikimedia Foundation teams on
> a variety of topics relevant to doing Wikimedia work. The intended audience
> of the platform is Wikimedia contributors of all kinds, and all you need to
> access the platform is your existing Wikimedia account. As we continue to
> evolve some governance mechanisms for the platform, it will  become open
> for contribution from all Wikimedia contributors.
>
> You can access the platform at learn.wiki  
>
> The courses currently available from the Community Development team are:
>
>
>1.
>
>Introduction to Building Partnerships - This course will provide an
>in-depth curriculum on how to develop meaningful programmatic and
>organizational partnerships within the movement and with external partners.
>
>
>
>1.
>
>Addressing Harassment Online - This short, introductory course will
>focus on developing skills that will help volunteers empathetically respond
>to online harassment.
>
>
> These courses are self-paced and graded by the original instructors of the
> live course. A computer graded version of these courses will be available
> shortly. The current courses are published in English with potential
> translation possible in FY 22-23
>
>
> Please note that the self-paced/human-graded format will return marked
> assignments on a bi-weekly/monthly basis depending on capacity.
>
> Each course has been adapted from its original live format to be suitable
> for self-paced study. The Identifying and Addressing Harassment course
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: International Women's Month.. 25th of March is our Day!!!! 🙏

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear friends,



Again, this is our Day.


We've separated today, the 25th of March to celebrate our women through
edit-a-thon.


Naija Women Writing Contest 2022 is the Nigerian version of #WikiGap
organised by Wikimedia Nigeria UG in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy
in Nigeria.



The event intends to improve and create new Wikipedia biographies about
Nigerian women and served as one of the lined up events to celebrate the
2022 International Women's Month.



We invite our friends across the movement to join us in this event on the
25th of March 2022.



It's a 24hrs Marathon event, meaning you can edit an article about a
Nigerian woman at any time of the day.



To participate

1. Log into Wikipedia with your Username

2. Enroll on the outreach Outreach dashboard
<https://ddei5-0-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2foutreachdashboard.wmflabs.org%2fcourses%2fWikimedia%5fNigeria%5fUG%2fWikiGap%5f2022%2d%5fNaija%5fWomen%26%2339%3bs%5fWriting%5fContest%5f%2824th%2d25th%5fMarch%5f2022%29&umid=04AFB3F7-DAE3-1405-9F2F-9C7FA8883E16&auth=b32f7072cb1370b7b119b85843019516260d8fac-f9b9d6b0c0f0e8fc4fca2843a2026199656a4a81>
(1)
for this contest

3. Pick any of the suggested articles from the event landing page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Naija_Women_Writing_Contest_2022>
(2)
or start a new article from scratch.

4 Or add a freely licensed photo to an article needing one.



You can also be part of us by signing up below:



https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Naija_Women_Writing_Contest_2022



Regards,



Olaniyan Olushola

 President, Wikimedia User Group Nigeria






On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 2:54 PM Olushola Olaniyan 
wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
>
> Our WikiGap Virtual Edit-a-thon in Nigeria is happening on the 25th March
> 2022.
>
>
>
> Naija Women Writing Contest 2022 is the Nigerian version of #WikiGap
> organised by Wikimedia Nigeria UG in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy
> in Nigeria.
>
>
>
> The event intends to improve and create new Wikipedia biographies about
> Nigerian women and served as one of the lined up events to celebrate the
> 2022 International Women's Month.
>
>
>
> We invite our friends across the movement to join us in this event on the
> 25th of March 2022.
>
>
>
> It's going to be a 24hrs Marathon event, meaning you can edit an article
> about a Nigerian woman at any time of the day.
>
>
>
> To participate
>
> 1. Log into Wikipedia with your Username
>
> 2. Enroll on the outreach Outreach dashboard
> <https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Nigeria_UG/WikiGap_2022-_Naija_Women's_Writing_Contest_(24th-25th_March_2022)>
> (1) for this contest
>
> 3. Pick any of the suggested articles from the event landing page
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Naija_Women_Writing_Contest_2022>
> (2) or start a new article from scratch.
>
> 4 Or add a freely licensed photo to an article needing one.
>
>
>
> You can also be part of us by signing up below:
>
>
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Naija_Women_Writing_Contest_2022
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Olaniyan Olushola
>
> : For the community
>
>
>
> Links
>
> 1.
> https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Nigeria_UG/WikiGap_2022-_Naija_Women's_Writing_Contest_(24th-25th_March_2022)
>
> 2.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Naija_Women_Writing_Contest_2022
>
>
>
>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] International Women's Month.. 25th of March is our Day!!!! 🙏

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear friends,


Our WikiGap Virtual Edit-a-thon in Nigeria is happening on the 25th March
2022.



Naija Women Writing Contest 2022 is the Nigerian version of #WikiGap
organised by Wikimedia Nigeria UG in collaboration with the Swedish Embassy
in Nigeria.



The event intends to improve and create new Wikipedia biographies about
Nigerian women and served as one of the lined up events to celebrate the
2022 International Women's Month.



We invite our friends across the movement to join us in this event on the
25th of March 2022.



It's going to be a 24hrs Marathon event, meaning you can edit an article
about a Nigerian woman at any time of the day.



To participate

1. Log into Wikipedia with your Username

2. Enroll on the outreach Outreach dashboard

(1) for this contest

3. Pick any of the suggested articles from the event landing page

(2) or start a new article from scratch.

4 Or add a freely licensed photo to an article needing one.



You can also be part of us by signing up below:



https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Naija_Women_Writing_Contest_2022



Regards,


Olaniyan Olushola

: For the community



Links

1.
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Nigeria_UG/WikiGap_2022-_Naija_Women's_Writing_Contest_(24th-25th_March_2022)

2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Naija_Women_Writing_Contest_2022
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of the Gungbe Wikimedians User Group

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Congratulations to the group, what a great inclusion to the number of user
groups in Nigeria.


*Olaniyan Ishola Olushola*







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(WikiIndaba2019)
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Republic of Ireland. Co-Producer , Wiki Women Radio
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Women_Radio_Program>President, Wikimedia
Nigeria <https://wikimedia.org.ng/>Treasurer, FOSSFAMember, Affiliates
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:40 AM Camelia Boban 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] *Gungbe Wikimedians User Group* [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
> group aims to promote Wikimedia projects in Gun(Gungbe) language. The Gun
> language is a language in the Gbe languages group spoken by the Ogu people
> in Nigeria and Benin Republic.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Gungbe_Wikimedians_User_Group
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gungbe_Wikimedians_User_Group
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> *Camelia Boban*
> *Chair*
>
> *Affiliations Committee
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>*
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[Wikimedia-l] Annual report- 2020/2021 Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear friends,

Greetings!

We are glad to inform you of our annual report FTY 2020/2021 is ready and
published on meta for your review.

Kindly check the link here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Reports/2020-2021>
for details about the report.


Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Women, Wikiquote, SheSaid Launch, and Nigeria Independence Day...

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Yeah!

Count me and my community in the promotion of #Shesaid and
thank you for sharing in our joy by your edit!

❤️

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 6:59 PM Florence Devouard  wrote:

> Good idea !
>
> I have created two (very meager to be honest) entries on Wikiquote (in
> French and in English) about a Nigerian lady, Anie Akpe.
> (She has no Wikipedia article, just saying, maybe worth checking if she is
> notable enough ;) )
> 
>
> This is the perfect opportunity to promote the SheSaid drive starting
> today (for two months)
>
> For those who do not know the #SheSaid drive (second edition), this is
> about giving a bit of love to Wikiquote, and to balance the gender gap at
> the same time.
>
> So if you want to do something super cool for wikiquote, for women and for
> Nigeria today... all in one package...
>
> > go create an entry about a Nigerian women today on Wikiquote...
> hashtags #shesaid #NG
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid
>
>
> Anthere
>
> PS: Love you ❤️ Shola ;)
>
>
> Le 01/10/2021 à 09:59, Olushola Olaniyan a écrit :
>
> Reminder!!!
>
> Hello friends
>
> Today is the Nigeria  independence day anniversary, join us across the
> globe to celebrate the birth of our Nation by editing any Nigeria related
> articles in your language on @Wikipedia and please add #NG to your
> summary.
>
> Let's do it together .
>
> We love ❤️ you all!!!
>
> Olushola Olaniyan
> President  Wikimedia User Group Nigeria
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[Wikimedia-l] Nigeria Independence Day global Edit-a-thon

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Reminder!!!

Hello friends

Today is the Nigeria  independence day anniversary, join us across the
globe to celebrate the birth of our Nation by editing any Nigeria related
articles in your language on @Wikipedia and please add #NG to your summary.

Let's do it together .

We love ❤️ you all!!!

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[Wikimedia-l] Nigeria Independence Day global Edit-a-thon

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Hello friends!

Nigeria proclaimed independence from British rule on 1 October 1960. On
this day we celebrate Nigeria independence.

The Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc. is inviting all our friends in the
Wikimedia movement to join us on the 1st of October, 2021 for a 24hrs
online edit-a-thon to mark and celebrate the independence of Nigeria by
improving any Nigerian-related articles on
on any language Wikipedia.

Please add #NG to the summary of all articles improved or created as part
of this event.

The community is also planning a one-hour virtual meet-up on the same day.

You can join the virtual meet-up via the link below;


Time: Oct 1, 2021 12:00 PM West Central Africa

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89726776105?pwd=dVQvNmFpZGsrVENSUUxHSTE2ZS9vZz09

Meeting ID: 897 2677 6105
Passcode: 545487

Thank you.

Olaniyan Olushola
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you, Natalia,for sharing the amazing piece of news.

We, welcome Maryana, to the movement and wishing her the very best in the
new engagement.

Regards.

Shola and Wikimedia UG Nigeria.


On Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 4:53 PM Nataliia Tymkiv  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
> has appointed Maryana Iskander as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
> [1] [2].
>
> Since 2013, Maryana has served as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment
> Accelerator [3], a South African non-profit social enterprise focused on
> building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment.
> Prior to this, she spent six years as Chief Operating Officer of Planned
> Parenthood Federation of America [4], a volunteer-led social movement
> focused on access to women’s healthcare. Maryana has also worked in
> academia as the Advisor to the President of Rice University [5], an
> international research university based in the United States.
>
> Her professional career has been motivated by breaking down systemic
> barriers, creating opportunities for collaborative solution-building, and
> community empowerment. She has a proven track record for leading complex
> organisations shaped by shared decision-making.
>
> In looking for the next CEO, we on the Board convened a Transition
> Committee [6], primarily to guide us in finding the right person for this
> critical role and secondly to oversee the executive Transition Team. The
> Transition Committee conducted a far-reaching and competitive global
> search, receiving around 400 recommendations and speaking to about 50
> potential candidates. Throughout this selection process, Maryana impressed
> us as someone who is deeply inspired by the Wikimedia vision and who
> embodies the values of equity and community that inform all Wikimedia work.
> She has extensive leadership experience working with volunteer-led
> initiatives and building partnerships across public, private and social
> sectors. Maryana also brings expertise in technology-led innovation to
> accelerate meaningful social change. She does this with a global
> perspective: Maryana was born in the Middle East, educated in the United
> States and the United Kingdom, and has spent the last decade living and
> working on the African continent.
>
> Maryana joins the Wikimedia Foundation at a crucial time. The movement is
> larger than ever, and it has never been more relevant or more trusted. This
> is an inflection point, as decisions need to be made to execute a shared
> vision for where the Movement wants to be in 2030. We believe that Maryana
> is the right person to help lead the Foundation at this moment.
>
> As Maryana begins, her priorities will include supporting movement efforts
> to implement the Wikimedia 2030 recommendations, such as the development of
> a Movement Charter and the finalization of a Universal Code of Conduct. She
> will continue the Foundation’s focus on knowledge equity and exploring ways
> to address the gaps in content and the diversity of contributors to
> Wikimedia projects. She will be supported by the Board in this journey.
>
> Maryana will officially start at the Wikimedia Foundation on January 5,
> 2022, as she transitions from her current job. Until then, the Foundation
> will continue to be led by the Transition Team, with guidance from the
> Board. In my conversations with her, I have seen that Maryana is a fan of
> direct communication and excited to learn from the movement. In the coming
> weeks, she will share ways to connect. Please join me in welcoming Maryana
> (CCed) to the Foundation!
>
> PS. For translations of this message, or to help translate it into more
> languages, please visit Meta-Wiki [7]
>
> *[1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/14/wikimedia-foundation-appoints-maryana-iskander-as-chief-executive-officer/
> *
>
> *[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryana_Iskander
>  *
>
> *[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambee_Youth_Employment_Accelerator
> *
>
> *[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood
> *
>
> *[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University
>  *
>
> *[6]
> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Creating_a_CEO_Transition_Committee_and_Transition_Team,_2021
> 
>  *
> *[7]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/14_September_2021_-_Welcoming_the_new_Wikimedia_Foundation_CEO
> 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Update from the Wikimedia Foundation Board chair

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear Maria,

Yeah! Eight years seem to be a very long time but considering your
achievements and the excellent works that you've done as the Chair of the
Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation, it was like yesterday that
you were made the Chair of the Board.

Sincerely, I am proud of you!

I pray that you will continue to break the glass ceiling in all your future
endeavours.

Gracia.

Olushola



On Thu, Jun 3, 2021, 8:40 PM María Sefidari  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> There is one last bit of news I would like to share following the Board
> meeting update.
>
> After ~ 8 years on the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation - a
> long time! - I have notified the Board that I am stepping down as Chair and
> trustee, effective end of day today.
>
> As all of you know, the community-selected seats were due to expire last
> year and were extended at the request of the Board to see through these
> difficult and unprecedented times. Now, after chairing the last meeting of
> the fiscal year and having the call for candidates for the upcoming
> elections approved, it is the least disruptive moment for me to step down.
> The Foundation has asked me to consider an advisory role to support
> Movement Strategy and the onboarding of new trustees and the new CEO/ED, to
> help support leadership and this strategic transition. Nataliia Tymkiv,
> currently Vice Chair, will act as Chair until a new one is elected by the
> Board ensuring continuity.
>
> Hopefully this news will not come as too much of a surprise. I am grateful
> to the community members who lent me their trust and support to become a
> trustee on two different occasions, to the staff, and to the trustees for
> their confidence in me in the different leadership positions I have held
> within the Board - first as committee chair, then two terms as Vice Chair,
> and two terms as Chair.
>
> Together we have accomplished many things during this time, but if I had
> to single out only a few they would be the following: launching the
> Movement Strategy process, engaging in the most ambitious governance reform
> in the history of the Board, and working to ensure the stability and
> sustainability of the Foundation. It has been a time of change, of
> discussing strategy and our future, and deciding together what the path
> forward should be.
>
> Of course, the work is never finished - it will be the task of the Board
> to continue what has been done and face the newer and complex challenges
> that will no doubt arise. I hope that we will see many of the women of the
> movement and people from the Global South as candidates in the upcoming
> community elections - I know there are many qualified people ready to step
> into these important roles. I look forward to supporting an increasingly
> capable and diverse Board.
>
> Be safe and well everyone.
>
> Tupananchiskama,
>
> María
>
> --
>
> María Sefidari Huici
>
> Chair of the Board
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Deutschland’s new Executive Director: Christian Humborg

[Olushola Olaniyan]

I am just this cheerful news.

Thank you, Lukas, for sharing this news.

 I am super excited about this news, and i wish to congratulate Christian
for achieving the feat.

I cannot forget in a hurry the support provided by you and your team during
the time of my case with the German embassy in Nigeria. Though the case
lasted for over two years yet i was eventually justified.

I, therefore, wish you the very best in your tenure as the new ED,
Wikimedia Deutschland.

Regards

Olaniyan Olushola





On Mon, May 10, 2021, 11:36 AM Lukas Mezger 
wrote:

> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> In January, Abraham Taherivand informed you that he had decided not to
> renew his contract with Wikimedia Deutschland. Today, I am excited to
> announce that our search for a new Executive Director has been successful:
> Christian Humborg will take over office at Wikimedia Deutschland from 1
> June.
>
> One of the most important tasks of the Wikimedia Deutschland Executive
> Board is the appointment of the Executive Director. My colleagues and I are
> very pleased to have found such a fantastic candidate for the vacant
> position. Christian impressed us with his bold ideas and visions, his
> leadership experience at the head of influential civil society
> organisations and his passion for the liberation of knowledge. He clearly
> prevailed among the 59 applicants. The search was managed by our
> Supervisory Board and Abraham with the support of an external executive
> search firm.
>
> Christian knows the Wikimedia Movement and our commitment to free
> knowledge well – because he has helped shape both since 2016 as deputy
> executive director and head of finance at Wikimedia Deutschland. Before
> that, he was the executive director of the anti-corruption organisation
> Transparency International Germany, helped establish the non-profit
> investigative journalism centre Correctiv and was awarded the Grimme Online
> Award as a member of the journalism collective carta.info. He is the
> right fit for the future of Wikimedia Deutschland.
>
> At this point, on behalf of our entire Board, I would like to express my
> heartfelt thanks to Abraham, who has achieved so much as Executive Director
> over the last four years. He has set important strategic impulses that will
> be decisive for the future success of Wikimedia in the world. Abraham
> joined Wikimedia Deutschland in 2012 and has since strengthened the
> organisation in every respect and positioned it very well for this
> handover. Thank you for your great commitment!
>
> It is to Abraham’s credit that he discussed his decision with the Board at
> an early stage and thus made a well thought-out search process possible.
> Together, we are now working on a good transition.
>
> We are looking forward to continuing the success of the last four years
> together with Christian, to tackling new projects, to implementing the 2030
> strategy – and to liberating a few more pieces of knowledge together every
> day.
> Kind regards,
>
> Lukas
>
>
> --
>
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> Vorsitzender des Präsidiums / chair of the Supervisory Board
>
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> Tel. (030) 219 158 260 – (0151) 268 63 931
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you + see you around!

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Hi Katherine,

I am glad you have done so much as an outgoing  Executive Director of the
Wikimedia Foundation and no one can question it.

Sincerely, you have cast your name in Gold with the way you have responded
to critics and reshaped the movement. Now, we could see ourselves not as a
tool in the hand of a few but as a platform that stands to sustain the
revolution of the universe.

It takes only a few to do so and you happen to be one of the very few to
have achieved this feat.

Though the journey to the destination desired by you for the movement might
seem to be far, I am glad that you have laid the track.

Continue with your Midas touch and break the glass ceiling.

I am wishing you the very best in your next endeavour.

I celebrate You.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Next year: my role

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Apologies for cross posting!!!



We write to invite all photographers and photo enthusiasts on this platform
to the maiden edition of #WikiPhotoTalk.



The event was designed to support, create awareness for open knowledge in
photography and better provide more visibility for African photographers
featuring top photographers and image practitioners across Africa to share
knowledge, experience and help to proffer solutions to likely topical local
issues around photography in Africa.



It’s free but mandatory to register here: http://bit.ly/wikiphototalk

Thanks and looking forward to seeing you all as we advance Photography
knowledge in Africa.



Stay Safe!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish! / Stepping down April 15

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear Katherine,

I never saw this coming!

You have done so well as the CEO of Foundation and I believe you will
continue to be an ambassador of the movement, wherever you go.

You are such a special person and we all shall miss you!!!

Stay blessed.



On Thu, Feb 4, 2021, 6:48 PM Katherine Maher  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Earlier today, I announced to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation my
> intention to step down as CEO later this spring. April 15th will be my last
> day, marking my seven-year anniversary with the Foundation and the
> movement. This was not an easy decision, but it is the right one. For now,
> I want to share with you why I’m moving on, and what comes next. I’ll save
> the customary email with deeper reflections, memories, and thanks for later
> this spring!
>
> In some ways, this was the easiest hard decision I’ve ever made. It’s
> never exactly a good time to step away -- transitions always have some
> rough edges -- but it’s always best to do so when the organization is
> strong, and before you’ve overstayed your welcome. The movement is in a
> good, strong place. Our communities are growing, our readership is too. Our
> 20th birthday, the launch of our Universal Code of Conduct, and the
> movement strategy recommendations are all milestone moments of solidity and
> strength. I have great hopes and confidence in the upcoming plans for
> strategy implementation, particularly the work on the movement charter and
> interim global council. We are healthy and thriving.
>
> While we will always have more work to do to become the Wikimedia that we
> want to be, our movement and our organization is in a phase of renewal and
> regeneration. We have deepened our practices of consultation,
> collaboration, and inclusion that will be the foundation of the next decade
> of our work. We have a deep and stable financial position that will help us
> grow and protect us from any storm, and the trust in our projects has never
> been higher. Our communities are poised to take on deeper responsibilities
> of governance, accountability, and leadership, populating a rich,
> representative, and leaderful movement for free knowledge.
>
> The Foundation is also strong, and filled with passionate, values-aligned
> leaders at every level of the organization, deeply committed to the work of
> our movement and mission. Although we don’t always all perfectly agree on
> absolutely everything, we are working more openly and cooperatively with
> our movement than ever before. Collaborative strategic planning,
> sustainable programs to support technical communities and tooling,
> co-development and consultation on transformative new experiences welcoming
> newcomers, cooperative partnerships on public health data, bibliographic
> data, and human rights data -- all of these are signals of much great work
> to come. Even difficult topics, such as brand and movement governance,
> continue to bring people together in nothing less than feisty commitment.
>
> Together, we have rich resources of brilliant people, deep passion, and
> compassion. We are making progress on some of our greatest challenges, from
> editor and readership growth, technical debt, representation and
> participation, safety and knowledge equity. I am proud of what we’ve done
> together and grateful for all the ways in which this movement has made my
> life immeasurably richer: friendships that will last a lifetime,
> intellectual curiosity and kinship, and so many memories of *so much
> dancing*, from Accra to Berlin to Chandigarh.
>
> As for me, I’m going to take a break, and a research fellowship, as a
> place to think about what’s next. It’s hard to think about your future when
> you’re fully in your present, and for the past seven years, I’ve been fully
> present for this movement. But as I look around, I see global challenges
> such as polarization, inequality, and climate change, as well as
> opportunities for generational renewal and optimism. As a Wikimedian, I
> lean toward optimism, and plan to apply myself in that direction!
>
> *What’s next*
>
>- We announced this planned transition publicly on our communications
>channels during a Foundation all-staff meeting today.
>- A Board Transition Committee composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, who is
>chair of HR Committee, Tanya Capuano, who is chair of the Audit Committee,
>Raju Narisetti, and María Sefidari as Board Chair, will launch the search
>for a new CEO. They’ll work closely with the executive Transition Team on
>organizational operations, and with the broader board on an open candidate
>call. The Board is working with the goal of onboarding a new CEO by Q2 of
>the 2021-2022 fiscal year.
>- We’ve been working on succession planning for the CEO role since
>2019 as a matter of best practice, and the organization is well-prepared
>for a thoughtful search for the next phase of our mission. The Board has
>decided to work with Kathleen Yazba

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal news // ED transition

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thanks, Abraham for this message. I could remember the day we met at your
office in Berlin and every words we shared together.

You are such a pleasant personality that will be missed within our
movement.

You have also demonstrated a good precedent for all outgoing personnel
within and outside the movement to emulate.

Thanks a lot for all you have done..




On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 5:17 PM Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Thank you for this message, and for your years of service.
>
> I understand this isn't the Big Goodbye thread; I write just to say that I
> think this is a great example to set for an executive departure
> announcement, and I appreciate it.
>
> Cheers,
>
>A.
>
> Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
>
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 4:52 PM Abraham Taherivand <
> abraham.taheriv...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>>
>>
>> Today I am informing you that I will not be renewing my contract with
>> Wikimedia Deutschland, which runs until January 2022. This decision was not
>> easy for me because Wikimedia has been such an important, even central,
>> part of my life in the past nine years. After thorough introspection, I
>> feel that this step is the right one for me and for our organisation.
>>
>>
>> This means that a successor will have to be found for the position of the
>> Executive Director. The search is managed by our Supervisory Board and me
>> with support of an external executive search firm. The search process has
>> been well prepared in recent weeks and I am working closely with our board
>> on each of the steps.
>>
>>
>> Together, we will ensure a good handover and transition to my successor.
>> This point is very important to me, as is the fact that we will continue to
>> work without losing focus on achieving our goals, on working with the
>> entire movement, and on collaborating very closely on movement strategy
>> implementation. That's why I don't want to say a big goodbye right now.
>>
>>
>> What’s next
>>
>>-
>>
>>In cooperation with the external executive search firm Kienbaum, we
>>have developed a search profile and a job posting that will go online
>>shortly.
>>-
>>
>>We strive to have someone on board well before the end of my term in
>>January 2022. As we have commenced the procedure so early, we are on a 
>> very
>>good track.
>>
>>
>>-
>>
>>I also consider it essential to be available for a comprehensive
>>transition and onboarding of a new Executive Director.
>>
>>
>> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Abraham
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Geschäftsführender Vorstand / Executive Director
>>
>> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
>> Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
>> http://wikimedia.de
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia User Group Nigeria: Annual activities report for the year ended 2019-2020

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear all

Greetings,

We write to inform you all that our annual report for the year ended
2019-2020 is ready.

We wish to thank the Wikimedia Foundation for its supports in the previous
reporting year and we hope to strengthen the relationship between us in the
new year.

And to all our colleagues across the globe, let's do more together.


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Reports/2019-2020

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Government of Navarre will fund BWUG

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Great!

Congratulations this is an amazing development.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 10:54 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> It is a real pleasure to announce the agreement reached between Basque
> Wikimedians User Group and the Government of Navarre to finance projects
> for the knowledge of Wikimedia platforms in that region.
>
> The agreement, of an initial duration of 6 months and endowed with
> 25,000€, will serve to initiate work related to local knowledge, GLAM and
> to multiply the educational program that we have already been carrying out.
>
> You can read more about this agreement in our blog:
> http://wikimedia.eus/2020/07/wikipedian-euskarazko-eduki-digitalak-sortu-zabaldu-eta-kontsumitzea-sustatuko-du-nafarroako-gobernuak/
>
> And you can learn more about it in Spanish in the Governments website:
> https://www.navarra.es/es/noticias/2020/07/23/el-gobierno-de-navarra-fomentara-la-creacion-difusion-y-consumo-de-contenidos-digitales-en-euskera-en-wikipedia
>
> Sincerely
>
> Galder
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] June 4 1800 Maggie Dennis office hour (with a twist)

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you, Maggie, I am so glad this is coming at the right time. Looking
forward to it.

Thanks

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On Thu, May 28, 2020, 13:03 Maggie Dennis  wrote:

> Hello, all.
>
> With the Board’s recent statement, this seems like a good time to launch
> the quarterly office hours I’ve been wanting to create for people who want
> to talk to me about issues involving “community resilience and
> sustainability,” including the work of Trust & Safety, whom I oversee.
> (after months of wanting to do this I’ve come to realize that I will always
> be "too busy" to feel like it's the perfect time for this. So I’m going to
> do it now anyway!)
>
> There’ve been requests to make office hours more personal, so I will host a
> Zoom hangout where people can join me, but I'll also take questions from
> Telegram and IRC.[1] I know that finding an hour that works for everybody
> is not going to happen, and I know from past office hours I’ve been
> involved in that I may get far more questions than I can answer (or,
> contrarily, nothing at all :)). Nevertheless, I will do my best to answer
> questions posed to me in that hour by Wikimedians in good standing (not
> Foundation or community banned) and to follow up in writing with any I
> don’t have time for over the next few days or week or so, time allowing. I
> might aggregate similar questions into a kind of FAQ. We’ll publish notes,
> anonymizing those who’ve asked questions, after.
>
> I do, however, have the following caveats:
>
>-
>
>I can’t and won’t discuss specific Trust & Safety cases. Instead, I can
>discuss Trust & Safety protocols and practices and approaches as well as
>some of the mistakes we’ve made, some of the things I’m proud of, and
> some
>of the things we’re hoping to do.
>-
>
>I will not respond to comments or questions that are disrespectful to
>me, to my colleagues, or to anyone in our communities. I can talk
> civilly
>about our work even if you disagree with me or I disagree with you. I
> won’t
>compromise on this.
>
>
> I’m not sure if I will stick with Zoom as the way I do office hours
> forever, but I am responding to some requests for spoken interaction while
> also trying to provide text options for those who prefer. I admit to being
> a little camera shy myself, so this is a challenge for me! If I embarrass
> myself too badly, I may retreat to the safety of text in future.
>
> I was hoping to have the Zoom link already, but while that’s being
> expedited by our office technology team, I don’t have it yet. I wanted to
> give interested people notice as soon as I knew the time. I’ll follow up
> with links again at least two hours in advance.
>
> The meeting will be on June 4th at 1800 UTC.
>
> I hope to see you there.
>
> Best,
>
> Maggie
>
> [1] Zoom link; Telegram link: https://t.me/joinchat/DOlGIB1FRLUWqW9iB3qfTQ
> ;
> directions for participating in IRC:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate
>
> --
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> Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest: We are looking for Jury

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear friends,

Greetings,

We are excited to inform you that WikiGap Nigeria Online contest ends today
27 May 2020, 23:59 (WAT).

Submissions were received in the following languages ( in no particular
order) :
1.Yoruba
2.Hausa,
3. Igbo
4.English
5. Deutsch
6. French
7. Italiano
8. Tieng Viet
9. Suomi
10. Davvisámegiella
11.Bahasa Indonesia,
12. Nederlands
13. Malayalam
14. Aftabuzzaman,
 15. Punjabi

Due to the influx of many international languages, the organizing team has
decided to seek the help of the global community members especially editors
speaking and writing any of the languages to serve on the panel of Jury. We
hope volunteers can spend between 3-4hrs over one week on the task.

If you are interested in joining the team of Jury, kindly send your User
name to i...@wikimedia.org.ng on or before 30 May 2020.


NB: Contest participants are not expected to apply as a member of Jury.

Warm regards.



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[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest: Sharing our diversity.

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear friends,

This is to inform you that WikiGap Nigeria Online contest has entered week
three and we are glad to share our progress report with you all.

We have over 300 articles published in less than three weeks by over thirty
(30) editors in over 16 Wikipedia projects/languages ( enwiki, yowiki,
Igwiki, hawiki,dewiki, Idwiki, eswiki, hewiki, ItWiki, kowiki, ptwiki,
ruwiki,niwiki, wikidata and commons)

The event ends in less than 7 days from now, we desire to read our women
biography in your language.

Kindly join us by signing up here


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[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest extends to 27 May 2020.

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear friends,


Greetings,


We write to thank you for your immense contribution to the ongoing WikiGap
online event in Nigeria organized to close the existing gender gap on
Wikipedia.


We have received feedback from some quarter of the community with the
desire to join the contest. So, to encourage wider community participation
and an all-inclusive event, we have decided to extend the contest for two
additional weeks.


So the new date is now 27 May 2020.


The following prizes are available for participants.

   - *1st:* HP Laptop 15-ra011nia Celeron 4GB RAM 500GB HDD FREE DOS
   - *2nd:* Mobile Phone: Canon 12 Air 6.55 inc
   - *3rd:* Zealot S7 Pro Portable Wireless Touch Control Bluetooth Speaker
   4.2 With 1maH and Powerbank
   - *4th:* 1TB Backup+Slim External Hard Drive
   - *5th:* 128GB Ultra OTG Dual USB Flash Drive
   - *6th-15th*: Wikipedia pencil, pin, and merchandise as supported by
   Wikimedia Sverige.


You can join us by signing up here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Nigeria_Online_Challenge/Participants>.



The contest is organized in partnership with the Swedish Embassy in
Nigeria, African Women in the Media, Women in Red, Wiki in Africa and
Wikimedia Sverige.


Thank you for the anticipated participation.



Regards,


*Olaniyan Ishola Olushola*








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[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Online Challange

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Hello friends,

We invite you to join us in a 2 week long  WikiGap Online Writing contest
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Amazing prizes are available for participants.

The contest is organized in partnership with the Swedish Embassy in
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

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Thank you Dumi and Derick for amazing initiative.
I will review and come back with my suggestion (s) if any.
Thanks


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On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 7:19 AM effe iets anders 
wrote:

> Thanks for the update Dimi.
>
> The system seems reasonably flexible (assuming the links can be both
> internal and external). There are two things I'd suggest:
> - Please track language versions. If multiple languages are available, it
> would be nice if they can be connected. It would also be helpful to
> identify languages in the report.
> - Be generous with the 'other' option. For example, you now only allow
> monthly and annual reports. Would you discourage quarterly reports to be
> shared? Or three-year reports? I know those may not be required by WMF, but
> they may be produced for different purposes. I imagine you would want those
> to be shared too?
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 6:49 PM Joy Agyepong  wrote:
>
> > Hello Dumi,
> >
> > Thanks for the update and teams efforts on this initiative. I have taken
> a
> > tour on the portal and it looks really simplified and easy to navigate.
> > However, I will be on standby for the training session.
> >
> > Best,
> > Joy
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 7:25 PM Isaac Olatunde 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Dumi,
> > >
> > > Thank you and Derrick for this work. I look forward to the seminar.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Isaac
> > >
> > > On Sat, 7 Mar 2020, 20:10 Michael Peel,  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Dumi,
> > > >
> > > > This looks interesting, but I’m worried that the WMF is still trying
> to
> > > > exclude itself from reporting its metrics. Will this new tool also
> make
> > > it
> > > > easier for the WMF to post its reports?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > > > > On 6 Mar 2020, at 17:51, Dumisani Ndubane 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > TL;DR: Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal
> > > > >
> > > > > We are launching a new form-based annual reporting system for
> > Wikimedia
> > > > > affiliates [1], as well as a basic Affiliates data query system. We
> > > would
> > > > > love your feedback.
> > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > - -
> > > > - -
> > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello, Affiliate Leaders & Community Members,
> > > > >
> > > > > Tired of the affiliate reports [2] wiki table of death? SO are we!
> > > > >
> > > > > The Learning & Evaluation team is pleased to announce the launch of
> > the
> > > > > Wikimedia Affiliates Data (WAD) Portal [1]. This portal will serve
> > > three
> > > > > purposes as follows:
> > > > >
> > > > >   1. It introduces a new Object-Oriented User Interface (OOUI) [3]
> > > > >   form-based report submission interface for annual activity and
> > > > financial
> > > > >   reports. This replaces the wiki mark-up based submission via the
> > > > >   [[Reports]] page on meta.
> > > > >   2. It introduces the ability for Organizations to update t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Eduwiki] You're invited: Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting, Jan 28 at 18:00 UTC

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you for this information and the shared link, I will be so glad to
attend the meeting.

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 23:28 LiAnna Davis  wrote:

> Happy New Year! The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to attend
> our next Open Meeting via Zoom on *Tuesday, January 28, from 18:00 UTC to
> 19:30 UTC*.
>
> As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the Wikipedia
> & Education board, then leave most of the time for our guest speakers. This
> month, we're thrilled to have featured speakers from Israel and Ghana join
> us to speak about Wikidata in education and outside-the-classroom social
> impact from Wikimedia projects.
>
> *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* is one of the leading innovators in the
> Wikimedia & Education movement globally. In addition to her work as a
> researcher and free knowledge advocate, Shani has taught groundbreaking
> courses on Wikipedia and Wikidata, and she'll be presenting in this meeting
> on her Wikidata work. A founding board member of the Wikipedia & Education
> User Group, Shani resigned to take on even greater responsibility as a
> Wikimedia Foundation Trustee. We're particularly excited to welcome her
> back as a guest speaker!
>
> *Andrews Lartey*, Project Manager for Growing Open and Eco-friendly
> Skills for the Youth (GOES), will speak about how Wikimedia Projects can be
> used outside the classroom to create social impact (Industry 4.0 skills
> acquisition, circular economy and zero hunger). Andrews Lartey will present
> on how GOES, through community school farms is creating social impact in
> Ghana, the global effect and how various institutions and individuals can
> support the project.
>
> The meeting will be hosted via this link on January 28:
> https://zoom.us/j/580872511
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Ryan Merkley to the Wikimedia Foundation

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Ryan,

Congratulations!!!

You are welcome on board.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 23:01 Katherine Maher  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I’m excited to let you all know that Ryan Merkley, formerly CEO of
> Creative Commons, is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as my new chief of
> staff.
>
> Many of you have met Ryan before -- at CC Summit, Wikimania, Wikimedia
> Summit, or MozFest. He’s a leader in open source, open knowledge, and
> free-culture communities, and for the past five years, he’s been the CEO of
> Creative Commons, initiating programs like CC search to index all 1.6
> billion licensed works online. He’s passionate about the power of the
> commons, and the role that everyone can play in making it sustainable and
> open to all. I couldn’t be happier he’s now bringing this passion and
> experience to our movement.
>
> In Ryan’s own words, “My heart has always been in open communities, and
>  the power of collective acts --  that is, the things that people can only
> do when they work together, like building a commons of free knowledge for
> every person.”
>
> For now, Ryan’s two top priorities will be bolstering the work of the
> movement strategy team and supporting the Board. He’ll support the strategy
> core team to move the Working Group recommendations into implementation
> within the community and Foundation over the course of the coming year.
> He’ll also serve as Board liaison to the Board of Trustees, strengthening
> the connections, communications, and coordination between Trustees and the
> Foundation. Internally, he’ll support the office of the Executive Director,
> acting in my stead on various projects.
>
> I’m excited by this new role for an old friend of the open community. Ryan
> knows our movement well. He has spent many hours with many Wikimedians, and
> understands the centrality of the community to the Wikimedia mission and
> identity. His background as a partner to Wikimedia, and a leader in the
> broader open movement will be invaluable to our work, and confirmation of
> the importance of community experience in Foundation leadership.
>
> Ryan doesn’t start in his new role until Monday, September 16th. However,
> he will be at Wikimania, so for those of you attending, please say hi, and
> join me in welcoming him to Wikimedia!
>
> Katherine
>
> P.S. This announcement can also be found on our news page:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-ryan-merkley-as-chief-of-staff-to-the-office-of-the-executive-director
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hausa Wikimedians User Group

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Wow



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On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 18:05 Kirill Lokshin  wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Hausa Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
> group aims to promote the editing of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
> in Hausa, and to engage and encourage more Hausa speakers to become
> contributors to the Wikimedia projects.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Hausa_Wikimedians_User_Group
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hausa_Wikimedians_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group

[Olushola Olaniyan]

I am so excited about this news!!!

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On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 18:03 Kirill Lokshin  wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
> group aims to develop, improve, and promote the Yoruba-language Wikipedia,
> and to support other Wikimedia projects and content related to the Yoruba
> language, the Yoruba people, and the states of Western Nigeria.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_Wikimedians_User_Group
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[Wikimedia-l] Courtesy visit to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. ( UNN)

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Dear all,

We are glad to inform you of our recent courtesy visit to the University of
Nigeria.

Our mandate as Wikimedia User Group (operating as Wikimedia Nigeria
Foundation in Nigeria) is to introduce Wikipedia and it's sister projects
to all the citizen of the federal republic of Nigeria.

I and the Wikimedia community residing at the University of Nigeria Nsukka
(UNN) led by Professor Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani, the University Librarian met
with the Vice Chancellor of UNN  professor Benjamin  Chukwuma Ozumba and
the principal officers of the institution at the VC's conference room on
the 8th May 2019.

I am so honored and delighted to speak to the highest echelon of the
prestigious university about the impact of Wikipedia in education and the
support of Wikimedia Foundation in Africa and the entire globe to ensure
that every human being has access to the sum of all human knowledge.

UNN is one of the 10 tertiary institutions in Nigeria where Wikimedia
communities are established in Nigeria.

The meeting is made possible by professor Ezeani and Dr. Ngozi Osadebe the
coordinator of Art+ Feminism at the institution.

Regards


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Congratulations !!!

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 11:31 John Andersson  Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of three new grants totaling
> around USD 500,000. We hope to work with many of you as part of these
> projects. If you are interested in getting involved or receiving updates
> please let me know.
>
> Furthermore, the chapter also has a new heavily subsidized agreement for
> our office space.
>
> Project 1: Wikispeech – The Speech Data Collector
>
> The first project is a continuation of the Wikispeech[1] project, a
> text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts written text into speech. From
> September 2019 to April 2021 we aim to finalize building the MediaWiki
> extension and to build tools to collect speech data to add pronunciations
> to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata and to add more languages to the
> text-to-speech solution. The tools should also be possible to use for oral
> citations.
>
> The work happens in partnership with the Royal Technical Institute, STTS (a
> language processing company), Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland and
> the Swedish Dyslexia Association.
>
> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
>
> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_–_Talresursinsamlaren_2019/Ansökan
>
> Project 2: Wikipedia in Libraries
>
> From 2019 to 2020 Wikimedia Sverige, together with the National Library of
> Sweden, will develop an online training module for Swedish librarians
> focused around free knowledge and the Wikimedia platforms. This will be a
> mandatory training for all of Sweden's 5,000 public librarians. Our hope is
> to give all of them a basic understanding of the Wikimedia projects, as
> well as to complement the online training with advanced courses for the
> most dedicated. The advanced courses will give them the tools to ongoingly
> organize activities and events independently at their libraries across the
> country.
>
> Furthermore, the librarians will be engaged in the #1Lib1Ref and
> FindingGLAMs campaigns.
>
> There is a great potential to receive continuous funding over the coming 3
> years if successful.
>
> As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ansökan
>
> Project 3: Bibliographical data on Wikidata
>
> We continue our work to include bibliographical data on Wikidata. The
> project details are still being negotiated with the funder. The project
> will start in mid-2019 and last until 2020.
>
> Cost reduction
>
> Starting from March 2019 we have a new agreement in place for a heavily
> subsidized coworking space office from the Swedish Internet Foundation.
> Through the agreement we will save us around USD 30,000 per year compared
> to when we had an office of our own.
>
> We have received this generous subsidy because Wikipedia is considered so
> important for the infrastructure of the Internet. We are very happy that
> the agreement does not have an end date and that we have the possibility to
> grow significantly over time as well (while keeping the generous subsidy).
>
> Please contact John Andersson (john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have
> any
> questions.
>
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
> - - - -
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>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata now officially has more total edits than English language Wikipedia

[Olushola Olaniyan]

This is a good news.

Cheers!!!

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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 08:52 Ziko van Dijk  Hello Ariel Glenn,
> Thanks for the notification, very interesting. Well, we all know that
> making a lot of edits on Wikidata is "easier" or happens quicker than on
> Wikipedia, for various reasons. But still it is a nice milestone to
> congratulate to Wikidata. Hereby. :-)
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
>
> Am Mi., 20. März 2019 um 07:58 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen <
> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hoi,
> > So in stead of calling us all Wikipedia, let us be known as Wikidata...
> > HU
> > Thanks,
> >   GerardM
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 07:48, Ariel Glenn WMF 
> wrote:
> >
> > > Wikidata surpassed the English language Wikipedia in the number of
> > > revisions in the database, about 45 minutes ago today.I was tipped off
> > by a
> > > tweet [1] a few day ago and have been watching via a script that
> displays
> > > the largest revision id and its timestamp. Here's the point where
> > Wikidata
> > > overtakes English Wikipedia (times in UTC):
> > >
> > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d
> > > www.wikidata.org -r 888603998,888603999,888604000
> > > revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > revid 888604000 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./get_revid_info.py -d
> > > en.wikipedia.org -r 888603998,888603999,888604000
> > > revid 888603998 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > revid 888603999 at 2019-03-20T06:00:59Z
> > > revid 888604000 at 2019-03-20T06:01:00Z
> > >
> > > Only 45 minutes later, the gap is already over 2000 revsions:
> > >
> > > [ariel@bigtrouble wikidata-huge]$ python3 ./compare_sizes.py
> > > Last enwiki revid is 888606979 and last wikidata revid is 888629401
> > > 2019-03-20 06:46:03: diff is 22422
> > >
> > > Have a nice day!
> > >
> > > Ariel
> > >
> > > [1] https://twitter.com/MonsieurAZ/status/1106565116508729345
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine's board and officers

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Congratulations!!!

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Olaniyan Olushola
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President, Wikimedia Nigeria
Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation)
Co-director Wiki Women Radio
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 20:30 Голова Правління   Hello!
>
> Wikimedia Ukraine had its General Assembly on February 16, 2019 and we have
> elected new Board and Audit Committee [1]. We have been working on changes
> in our organisation for quite a while now with the help of Wikimedia
> Foundation grantmaking staff:
>
> 1) for a while we have had our General Assembly (GA) at the end of the
> calendar and financial year, which was an issue for us, as we (according to
> the Bylaws) can have a 100% new Board elected by the membership, and that
> means, that we need to finish all our financial transactions before the GA
> in case a new Board Chair and Secretary are elected (they are the ones who
> have the access to the bank account), so last year we have decided to have
> a GA at the end of a year (December) and the next one in February, to
> switch to a cycle starting February-February, rather than
> December-December. This is now done.
> 2) we have finally started working on a Board handbook [2], documenting our
> processes as we go, trying to get it all in a system. This document is a
> direct outcome from the Affiliate Chairpersons meeting in Prague [3] [4],
> and we are very grateful that Tim Moritz and Frans Grijzenhout continue
> dedicating their time to sharing knowledge in the Movement.
> 3) we had our first Strategy session on February 15 (before the GA) and are
> planning to have a two-day strategy session in June.
> 4) we are planning to have our first ever training on teambuilding and
> onboarding for Board members, Audit Committee members and staff on March
> 24-25, 2019. Onboarding and capacity building are our priorities as of now.
> This complements community-wide trainings we've had this past year during
> our national Wikiconference and the CEE Meeting, which we hosted this year
> in Lviv [5].
>
> That said, the new Board consists of:
> * [[User:Ilya]], Illia Korniiko. I have been Chair since December 2015.
> Re-elected.
> * [[User:JTs]], Yulianna Tsaruk. She is First Deputy Chair and Secretary of
> the Board. Re-elected.
> * [[User:NickK]], Mykola Kozlenko. He is Deputy Chair and Treasurer since
> 2016. Re-elected.
> * [[User:Наталія Ластовець]], Nataliia Lastovets. She is responsible for
> our program "Content Enrichment" [6], which includes editing challenges and
> contests, photography contests and GLAM. She has joined our organisation in
> July 2018. She was also a member of the Audit Committee for two months. It
> is her first term serving on the Board.
> * [[User:IgorTurzh]], Igor Turzhanskyy. He is responsible for our program
> "Increasing Participation", which includes Wikipedia in Education. He is a
> long-term Wikipedian but he has joined our organisation only in November
> 2018. It is his first term serving on the Board.
> * [[User:Friend]], Pavlo Sokhan. He is responsible for our program
> "Community Support and Development", which includes community events,
> trainings for volunteers, scholarships and microgrants. Re-elected.
> * [[User:Олександр Гаврик]], Oleksandr Havryk. He is responsible for our
> program "Awareness for Wikimedia and Free Knowledge", which is concentrated
> on media publicity and promotion activities and free panorama advocacy. He
> has joined our organisation only in October 2018. It is his first term
> serving on the Board.
>
> I want to thank the three Board members who stepped down: Yuri Bulka /
> [[User:Юрій Булка]], Olha Nesterenko / [[User:Нестеренко Оля]] and Andrii
> Hrytsenko / [[User:Андрій Гриценко]]. Being a board member means taking
> upon oneself more boring responsibilities, so their work and dedication is
> much
> appreciated.
>
> Our new Audit Committee:
> * [[User:Venzz]], Viacheslav Mamon
> * [[User:Tohaomg]], Anton Obozhyn
> * [[User:Anntinomy]], Anna Khrobolova. She was our project manager for a
> few years, but she has decided to stay with us in her volunteer role.
>
> Anatolii Honcharov / [[User:Ahonc]] and Serhii Petrov / [[User:Kharkivian]]
> have stepped down from the Audit committee and we are grateful for their
> work while there.
>
> [1] Керівні органи: https://ua.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=313 (in
> Ukrainian)
> [2] Посібник для членів Правління:
> https://ua.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6085 (in Ukrainian)
> [3] Affiliate Chairpersons meeting November 24 - 25, 2018:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_November_24_-_25,_2018
> [4] Affiliate Chairpersons meeting (Prague 2018):
> https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_(Prague_2018)
> (in Ukrainian)
> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018/Schedule
> [6] Wikimedia Ukraine has 4 programs, and we have decided that every Board
> member (except

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia User Group Nigeria -Annual Activities Report FTY 2017-2018

[Olushola Olaniyan via Wikimedia-l]

Dear all,

Apology for the mixed up.

Kindly see the URL below:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Reports/2017-2018#Media_coverages

Thanks. for your understanding.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:50 PM Cornelius Kibelka <
cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Hello Shola,
>
> is there also a link to this report?
>
> Best regards
> Cornelius
>
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 13:32, shola ishola via Wikimedia-l <
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> Trust you are well.
>>
>> The above abject refers.
>>
>> We are glad to share our Annual Activities Report FTY 2017-2018  with
>> you.
>>
>> We welcome your  observations, comments and words of encouragement (if
>> necessary)  .
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Olaniyan Olushola
>> The President Wikimedia User Group Nigeria.
>>
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