Hi Florence Thank you very much for sharing this information with me. I have signed up. Hopefully we could leverage this to reach out to millions of people in Nigeria that have no access to computers and the internet. I will appreciate training on Wiki offline so that I can train others. Thank you. Regards. *Chiemezie Atama (PhD)*
*Population, Gender and Development Studies* *Department of Sociology & Anthropology* *Faculty of the Social Sciences* *University of Nigeria, Nsukka.* *Founding Director* *Equity Watch Initiative* *RM 115, Prof. BIC Ijomah Building* *University of Nigeria, Nsukka.* *Alternative email: [email protected] <[email protected]>* * [email protected] <[email protected]>* *+234 8064647508* *+234 7014161511* On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 9:36 AM Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: > Definitly > > Hello Chiemezie > > Please it would be lovely if you would sign up as members of the > Wikimedians for offline wikis UserGroup. > Specific link here : > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_offline_wikis > > This is a very informal and loose thematic based UG, in relation to > offline. Its members are scattered around the globe. Its goals and missions > overlap quite a bit with yours, but with a slightly different angle (yours > focus on nomadism, whilst offline focus on... offline ;)) > There is a mailing list too, as well as a recently created telegram group > > > Congratulations on the involvement > > Florence / Anthere > > > On another note... reading the roles of your UserGroup, I read that one of > those is > > " To represent the Wikimedia Foundation > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation> to the nomad." > > I advise against using those specific words. No UserGroup or Chapter > represent the Wikimedia Foundation. I advise replacing it with something > like "present the Wikimedia world to the nomads" > > > > - > > Le 06/09/2022 à 09:31, Isla Haddow-Flood a écrit : > > You also might wish to check in first with the existing Offline Usergroup > ... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects > > On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 09:29, Isla Haddow-Flood <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello Chiemezie >> >> This is a big problem across Africa ... we created WikiFundi to allow for >> digital skills and wikipedia skills development for offline situations. >> Take a deeper look at https://www.wikifundi.org/ to see if this works >> for your community and group. >> >> Let me know if we can help you further. >> >> warmest >> Isla >> >> On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 22:05, Chiemezie Atama <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Boubakri >>> Thank you very much for this invitation. I serve a community where >>> internet access is a big challenge. People have no access. It has been a >>> source of concern for me as per how do I reach out to this group of people >>> to promote knowledge equity without the internet. Learning that there is a >>> way we could do this is very exciting for me. I have joined the group as a >>> member to see how we can work around this together. >>> Thank you >>> Best. >>> *Chiemezie Atama (PhD)* >>> >>> *Population, Gender and Development Studies * >>> *Department of Sociology & Anthropology* >>> *Faculty of the Social Sciences* >>> *University of Nigeria, Nsukka.* >>> *Founding Director* >>> *Equity Watch Initiative* >>> *RM 115, Prof. BIC Ijomah Building* >>> *University of Nigeria, Nsukka.* >>> >>> *Alternative email: [email protected] >>> <[email protected]> * >>> >>> * [email protected] >>> <[email protected]> * >>> *+234 8064647508* >>> *+234 7014161511* >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 7:57 PM BOUBAKRI HOUSSEMEDDINE < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear African Wikimedians, >>>> >>>> We are happy to announce that we are creating a new user group. >>>> We would like to invite everyone interested to join this new user group >>>> named *Wikimedians of Nomads user Group.* >>>> The main goals of this user group is to introduce Wikipedia and >>>> Wikimedia projects in rural and remote areas using offline projects. >>>> You find below the link of the user group: >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Nomads_User_Group >>>> >>>> Best regards. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list -- >>>> [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> African-Wikimedians mailing list -- >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>> [email protected] >>> >> _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list -- > [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] >
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