Xelawafs

My name is Victor Grigas and I'm a Storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation. We're exploring new ways to explain why Wikipedia is so special and we’ve started a Wikipedia Stories Project, where we’re chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community, especially editors and active contributors in the movement like you. I'll be traveling to Wikimania next month to collect stories for our 2011 Fundraiser. While there I'd love the chance to meet with you and hear your thoughts about Wikipedia. We’ll have a schedule of available times for you to sign up if you’re interested, but right now, we’d like to make the initial contact to gauge your interest. Please let me know by emailing me at vgrigas@wikimedia.org or responding on my talk page.

thank you,

VgrigasWMF (talk) 21:40, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Definitely looking forward to this. See you at Wikimania Victor!

Xelawafs (talk) 11:17, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Seeking Wikipedians in Africa

Hello Xelawafs! My name is Aaron Muszalski. Like Victor, I work in the Community Department here at the Wikimedia Foundation. Thank you for sharing your story with us!

I am currently planning a possible visit to Africa next month, and would greatly appreciate it if you could recommend other Kenyan Wikipedians to whom you think I should speak. We're especially looking for active editors, either from Kenya or other African countries, or people with interesting and compelling stories to share about their use of Wikipedia or the role that Wikipedia plays in their country.

You can email me at amuszalski@wikimedia.org. Thank you! Aaron (WMF) (talk) 03:14, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikimania Scholars

Dear Alex,

I work on the Global Development team at Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation aims to promote Wikimania 2012 and encourage contributors to apply for scholarship opportunities for next year’s event. You have been selected as one of the people I'd like to feature in a short bio write-up because of the areas you've greatly contributed to the Wiki-ecosystem. Based on the survey you filled out agreeing to provide your insight on the experience, I drafted a short write-up from your submission. As mentioned on the survey, the goal of the bio is to make the scholarship selection process more transparent by providing examples of the types of candidates who have been selected in the past.

If you would be so kind as to:

1) confirm that we may feature your bio by emailing me at syap@wikimedia.org

We would only list your Username (not your full name).

2) Review your bio below and submit any edits to it

3) Confirm that it’s fine to post a picture with your bio

4) (Optional) share a photo with me (syap@wikimedia.org), personal or one taken at Wikimania (via Commons with the link) by November 24th, 2011 (Thursday), that would be great (the sooner the better). We really appreciate your contributions to the community and helping us make this a greater global resource!

Please review this and let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

(Feel free to send me your edits)

• Name: User:Xelawafs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Xelawafs
• Location: Kenya
• Projects: Meta, Offline Wikipedia, Wikimedia Kenya, English and Swahili Wikipedia
• Languages: Swahili and English
• Best Wikimania Memory:

“The best part of the conference was meeting the attendees, sharing ideas, experiences, making new friends and acquaintances. I took a lot from this to share back home! Contributing to Wikimedia has become an important part of my life and so I have ample time set aside to participate in various projects. My best takeaways as a contributor are meeting, sharing and working with the great people of this community, empowering and changing people’s lives through the work we do.”
Sky2105 (talk) 17:48, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Hey Sky2105, I've just emailed you!

Barnster for you

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This is for your tireless efforts in Wikimedia Kenya, you built the website plus your tireless contributions as the project lead. Cheers stephenWanjau Talk to Me. Email Me. 06:32, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello Xelawafs, and Welcome to WikiAfrica!

Welcome to WikiAfrica! I hope you enjoy the incubator and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page — I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the Incubator help desk.

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Here are some more resources to help you as you explore and contribute to the world's largest encyclopedia...

Finding your way around:

• Get started

• WikiAfrica projects - Categories under WikiAfrica.

Need help?

• Guide to use of incubator - Guide on how to use incubator
• Cheatsheet — quick reference on Wikipedia's mark-up codes.
• Incubator help desk — a guide on where to ask questions.
• Wikipedia's 5 pillars — an overview of Wikipedia's foundations

• Article wizard — a Wizard to help you create articles
• The simplified ruleset — a summary of Wikipedia's most important rules.
• Guide to Wikipedia — A thorough step-by-step guide to Wikipedia.

How your organization can help:

• Share Your Knowledge - Share Your Knowledge

• More About WikiAfrica — Rationale for WikiAfrica

Additional tips...

• Please sign your messages on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~). This will automatically insert your "signature" (your username and a date stamp). The or button, on the tool bar above Wikipedia's text editing window, also does this.

• If you would like to play around with your new Wiki skills the Sandbox is for you.

Xelawafs, good luck, and have fun. --₫ӓ₩₳ _{Talk to Me. Email Me.} 10:01, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

₫ӓ₩₳ _{Talk to Me. Email Me.} 10:01, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Logo at Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments Kenya

The logo at Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Monuments Kenya should have the words "Kenya" in UPPERCASE. ₫ӓ₩₳ _{Talk to Me. Email Me.} 21:27, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Well most of the localized logos are in small caps so that's waht I followed, check these out [1] Xelawafs (talk) 21:40, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

hi Xelawafs I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. I would be very grateful if you could spread this call far and wide among your networks to ensure that both projects get excellent candidates. Here is the link for the information page http://www.wikiafrica.net/two-wikipedians-in-residence-for-africa/

Isla Haddow 09:28, 8 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Islahaddow (talk • contribs)

Hey Islashaddow thanks for the update. I'll definitely share it around

Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

Hello,

I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. If you are interested, please contact either Marilyn [marilyn.doualabelldoualart.org] for the WikiAfrica Cameroon call or Isla [islahfafricacentre.net] for the WikiAfrica position in Cape Town.

If you are not interested in applying, I would be very grateful if you could spread this call far and wide among your networks to ensure that both projects get excellent candidates. Here is the link for the information page: http://www.wikiafrica.net/two-wikipedians-in-residence-for-africa/

Best regards, Islahaddow

(This message was sent using Lucia Bot at 22:36, 16 November 2012 (UTC))

Hey Islashaddow thanks for the update. I'll definitely share it around

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Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!

Hi Xelawafs! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the World Digital Library, a project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO. I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about history & culture to participate in improving Wikipedia using the WDL's vast free online resources. Participants can earn our awesome WDL barnstar and help to disseminate free knowledge from over 100 libraries in 7 different languages. Multilingual editing encouraged!!! But being multilingual is not a necessity to make this project a success. Please sign up to participate here. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 22:37, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership Newsletter

Expand Wikipedia's free knowledge with WDL resources!

Hi Xelawafs! Thanks for participating in the World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership. Your contributions are important to improving Wikipedia! I wanted to share a few updates with you:

• We have an easy way to now cite WDL resources. You can learn more about it on our news page, here.
• Our to-do list is being expanded and features newly digitized and created resources from libraries and archives around the world, including content from Sweden, Qatar, the Library of Congress, and more! You can discover new content for dissemination here.
• WDL project has new userbox for you to post on your userpage and celebrate your involvement. Soffredo created it, so please be sure to thank them on their talk page. You can find the userbox and add it to your page here.
• Our first batch of WDL barnstars have been awarded! Congratulations to our first recipients: ProtoplasmaKid, ChrisGualtieri, TenthEagle, Rhyswynne, Luwii, Sosthenes12, Djembayz, Parkwells, Carl Francis, Yunshui, MrX, Pharaoh of the Wizards, and the prolific Yster76!! Thank you for your contributions and keep up the great work. Be sure to share your article expansions and successes here.

Keep up the great work, and please contact me if you need anything! Thank you for all you do for free knowledge! EdwardsBot (talk) 16:46, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia in schools in rural Ghana

Hi Alex

I read about your work on the Wikimedia blog, great work. I have a friend (not a Wikipedian) going to rural Ghana in a few weeks, I may be able to get her to take some USBs or DVDs with Wikipedia on. Would this be useful? Would this be any more useful than just posting them?

Thanks

--Mrjohncummings (talk) 16:26, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it will be more useful than posting them. Post tends to get lost in Africa so whenever you have someone travelling here, sending them with the USBs/DVDs is probably the best. I hope that helps. Let me know if you have anymore questions around this.

Xelawafs (talk) 16:44, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Contests

User:Dr. Blofeld has created Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:39, 21 July 2016 (UTC)