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This is just to let everyone know that the Wikimedia ZA AGM will be taking place in November 2017 in Cape Town. See below for more details.
- Time: Sunday, 26 November 2017, starts at 14:00 to 17:00
- Location: 6 Spin Street Restaurant (in the Tutu room at the back), ground floor, 6 Spin Street, in the Cape Town city bowl area.
If you would like to attend digitally we will be broadcasting the event over Google Hangouts, to join click on the link here.
The event page can be found on the Wikimedia ZA website here.
The AGM is open to all South African based Wikipedia and other Wikimeddia project editors. Membership is required to vote on resolutions but not required to attend. People are able to sign up as members at the AGM or they can signup before hand at the details on the Wikimedia ZA website.
5th Meetup edit
| December 2023 +/- | |
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| Ottawa Edit-athon | December 2, 2023 |
| NYC Hacking Night | December 6, 2023 |
| UK virtual 20 | December 6, 2023 |
| Upstate NY (online) | December 9, 2023 |
| London 199 | December 10, 2023 |
| Aotearoa New Zealand Online | December 10, 2023 |
| San Diego 106 | December 11, 2023 |
| Australian Open Community Meeting Online | December 13, 2023 |
| Singapore 15 | December 20, 2023 |
| January 2024 +/- | |
| Wikipedia Day NYC | January 14, 2024 |
| Wikipedia Day Toronto | January 14, 2024 |
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Everyone is warmly invited to attend the 5th South African online discussion held on Zulip.
Date and time edit
- Date: Saturday, 26 September 2020
- Start time: 10:00 AM SAST
- End Time: 12:00 PM SAST
- Location: Online Meeting
- Platform: Zulip (text chat)
- Server: Wikimedia ZA (note: registration is necessary)
- Platform: Zulip (text chat)
Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest! edit
Greetings!
The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.
We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap fillers - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)
Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list
This is just to let everyone know that the Wikimedia ZA AGM will be taking place on 25 September 2021. See below for more details.
- Time: Saturday, 25 September 2021, starts at 10:00 to 16:00. With intermission at 13:00
- Location: held digitally online this link
Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest! edit
Greetings!
The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!
Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.
The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:
- Overall winner
- 1st - $500
- 2nd - $200
- 3rd - $100
- Diversity winner - $100
- Gender-gap fillers - $100
- Language Winners - up to $100*
Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)
Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list
Adding the Red List of South African Plants conservation status edit
Hello, South Africa as a megadiverse country has fully assessed the status of its entire flora. Most plants assessed aren't in the IUCN Red List and I wish to add the categories as a Conservation Status field in a species' Wikidata page and in the Infobox of a species.
I already added the Red List of South African Plants Category diagrams page, but I have no idea on how to proceed.
I've been using the NZTCS conservation status to understand what is required.
A proposal needs to be made like this:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NZTCS_conservation_status
But how do I go about doing that?
Any idea, @Pbsouthwood? Thank you, Maqdisi (talk) 14:53, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Maqdisi, Is this a thing that will be done on Wikipedia or on Wikidata? Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 16:56, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
- It looks like it requires both, first it needs to be added as a property in Wikidata, then when adding the conservation status in Wikipedia, it pulls the image when a status code like LC is added Maqdisi (talk) 03:18, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
- Also, if you have any suggestions with the Category diagrams, I'd appreciate it. To save space, I had to leave off Critically Rare, Rare and Declining from the main category list:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Status_SANBI.svg
- I don't quite know how to place it in a secondary one.
- http://redlist.sanbi.org/redcat.php
- Thanks, Maqdisi (talk) 04:03, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
- I've created a Proposal at Wikidata:
- Wikidata:Property proposal/Red List of South African Plants conservation status Maqdisi (talk) 16:58, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon edit
Hello WikiProject South Africa:
WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!
Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.
We hope to see you there!
Grnrchst (talk) 13:45, 21 September 2023 (UTC)2023 Rugby World Cup final is ITN candidate edit
I've nominated 2023 Rugby World Cup final to be featured on the main page in the ITN (In the news) section. For that to happen, somebody with interest and subject knowledge (the latter rules me out) would need to add to the prose describing the match. Without that effort, it won't feature on the main page. Schwede66 02:49, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
Cape Town special event- meet the Wikimedia Foundation CEO edit
Its a bit last moment but I wanted to share this with everyone here in case you are in Cape Town and free on Monday, 11 December 2023. Sadly I am no longer living in Cape Town and so will miss this event but there will be many other local Wikipedia editors attending. Read below for details.
Maryana Iskanda, CEO of Wikimedia Foundation, and Christian Humborg, Executive Directors of WMDE, are in Cape Town for a flying visit. They would like to meet with the Wikimedians of the Cape (or any other visiting Wikimedians) on Monday, 11th December 2023.
Wiki In Africa and Wikimedia South Africa have planned the following for the meetup.
- 11:00 Gather at the District Six Museum
- 11:30 District Six Museum group tour
- 12:30 Leave District Six Museum for lunch venue
- 13:00 Lunch at Addis at the Cape
- 14:30 Lunch ends
You are invited to attend either or both activities. Please let us know if you can make it, you will need to fill out a form so we can finalise numbers. The final date to confirm attendance is Friday, 8 December.
- The Museum tour and/or lunch will be paid for. Transport and parking are
for your own account.*
Please feel free to make contact if you have any questions.--Discott (talk) 14:14, 5 December 2023 (UTC)