Open Foundation West Africa Satellite Event (Wikimania 2021)

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Open Foundation West Africa Satellite Event (Wikimania 2021)
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Open Foundation West Africa would be organizing a Wikimania satellite event for it's community. The reason why we are hosting this event is to ensure community growth and have African representatives at Wikimania 2021 which has gone virtual this year.

Also all regional hubs affiliated to OFWA would also be hosting a satellite event. The code of conduct and friendly space policy would be observed.

Remo

Remo is virtual event platform that would be used in this years wikimania,the platform will enables participants to be fully immersed or engaged in the event. Take a tour on how to use the platform here

OFWA Block

Participate and engage in OFWA's event at Wikimania 2021, thus:

• Leveraging on Local Holidays as a Topical Campaign to Bridge Content Gaps on Wikipedia
• Using Kiwix as a Tool to Enhance Equitable Access to Educational Resources During the Pandemic

Program Outline

Also find the program outline here

Sessions

We encourage you to attend as many sessions as you can if you have the time and connect with the larger community. This is our mini select list from speakers and members from our community.

	14/08/2021			15/08/2021
Time	Session Join in Remo or	Building	Time	Session Join in Remo or	Building
13:50 14:00	From Encyclopedia to Big Data: Past, present and future of Wikipedia data as a research source	3	15:00 15:30	WikiCite-Recent achievements, what happens next?	4
15:15 15:32	Education, Wikimedia Projects and Digital Literacy during COVID-19 Pandemic	2	15:30 16:00	Editing with machine learning: a case study on link recommendations	4
15:35 15:55	How to innovate in free knowledge? – New pathways to promote new projects and attract innovators for free knowledge from across the world	3	16:05 16:20	Attracting experts to contribute to Wikimedia movement	4
15:45 15:55	Wikimedia and GLAM in the Global South	5	16:45 17:15	Wikilearn: pilot results and open questions on a new online learning platform for the movement	4
16:15 16:25	Importance of reliable sources: citing dictionaries, glossaries and atlas as an example	3	17:15 18:15	Indicators for the Wikimedia Projects	5

	16/08/2021			17/08/2021
Time	Session Join in Remo or	Building	Time	Session Join in Remo or	Building
17:20 17:40	Contribution Gamification in Wikimedia Projects - The Chinese Wikipedia Experience	3	14:30 14:50	Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom - learning from a pilot project in Bolivia, Morocco and the Philippines	2
07:30 07:40	For Grandmas, Girls and GLAM-Queens: WomenEdit	5	15:15 16:00	One country in six pictures	4
08:10 08:20	Automatically maintained citations with Wikidata and Cite Q	4	15:00 16:00	The Future of Wikimania	5
09:30 09:40	The experiences of WikiGap and WikiForHumanRights. Working with UN experts on topics for impact	3	16:15 17:00	VisibleWikiWomen community meetup: how far we’ve come, what future we want to build together	2
10:45 10:55	Introducing Curated Commons: A social curation plattform for freely licensed images	4	17:00 17:20	Partnerships for content, on a global level	5

Scholarship

There would be data scholarship for community members who have keen interest in partaking in the entire wikimania meetup this year. (CLOSED)

Apply for data scholarship here

Event Schedule

• Day - Saturday, 14 August, 2021 UTC
• Time - 9:00 - 6:00pm UTC (Accra Hub)
• Time - 9:00 - 3:00pm UTC (Affiliate Hub)

Register here to attend the event

OFWA Regional Hubs

• Wa Wiki Hub
• Kumasi Wiki Hub
• University of Cape Coast Campus
• Accra Wiki Hub opposite Bosphorus Restaurant

Team

• Ruby D-Brown - Project Lead
• Kafui - Communication Lead

• Jesse - Wa Coordinator
• Max - Kumasi Coordinator
• Pamella - UCC Coordinator

Hub Leads

• Gameli & Stephen- Accra
• Otuo Acheampong - Kumasi Hub
• Ibrahim - Wa Hub
• Kojo & Michael - UCC Hub