Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 2

2016-01-04 Thread Olaniyan Olushola
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Re: [African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15

2016-01-04 Thread Florence Devouard
No we do not. But to be fair... I think that should not be a big problem. I can not say for en.wikipedia but fr.wikipedia, my strategy would be to go to previous jury members of WikiConcours and to ask them whether they would agree to do that. I know they are seasoned wikipedians, I know they

Re: [African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15

2016-01-04 Thread Samuel Guebo
Hello Flo and everyone, The Writing Contest itself a brilliant thing. Although I have nothing against the "free choice team" option, I would go for "country team". Making that Writing Contest exclusive to the country teams (eg.Ghana, Algeria, or Côte d'Ivoire) might draw new editors towards local

Re: [African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15

2016-01-04 Thread Kangah Donatien KOFFI
"Free choice team" can be "country team". So I have any problem with "free choice team"... Happy new year Isla and Flo! Best, 2016-01-04 16:29 GMT+00:00 TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori : > Do we have a panel of judges in mind to vet the scripts? > > > > > Sincerely, > > Oral Ofori: Founder of TheAfr

Re: [African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15

2016-01-04 Thread TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori
Do we have a panel of judges in mind to vet the scripts? Sincerely, Oral Ofori: Founder of TheAfricanDream LLC; an Information and Communication Consultancy on African Affairs --->> goo.gl/0iuyGr +12027069881 On Jan 4, 2016 10:53 AM, "Raphael Berchie" wrote: > Thanks Florence for the infor

Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa update

2016-01-04 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello there I forgot to wish you all a Happy New Year 2016 ! Quick update on the WLAf topic. We are now on the second round of image selection. Habib, Sylvain and Siwar have done a great job in rating all 1142 images ! 2 or 3 other jury members may be done (only rated some of the images) And

Re: [African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15

2016-01-04 Thread Raphael Berchie
Thanks Florence for the information and a very happy new year to you.I will go for a free choice team . On 1/4/16, Florence Devouard wrote: > Hello friends > > Isla and I thought of organizing a Writing Contest as part of Wikipedia > 15 global celebrations and we would like your feedback (and hop

[African Wikimedians] Organizing a Writing Contest on notable African women for Wikipedia 15

2016-01-04 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello friends Isla and I thought of organizing a Writing Contest as part of Wikipedia 15 global celebrations and we would like your feedback (and hopefully support :)) on that idea. The general idea would be to organize a Contest that will be officially launched on the 15th of January and wi