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Bonsoir Commons:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa page traduite vers arabe et français (pour le français a )complété à 100 % --Bachounda (talk) 22:58, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

super ! Anthere (talk)

par contre je constate que la traduction est loins d'etre finie dans les pages commons -- donc je continue a suivre la traduction; fr et arabe selon les cas j'ai laissé dans ma page discution des réponses pour toi bonne journée

--Bachounda Med. (talk) 13:16, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Orange fondation

bonjour

-- c'est fait :)

pour la fondation reste a rediger un "about Fondation Orange" en fr et en en de ma part je traduit en ar

s'agit'il de ce lien ? http://www.fondationorange.com/

bonne journée --Bachounda Med. (talk) 09:55, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

salam

le developpement des dit topos retirés --Bachounda Med. (talk) 18:57, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Problème avec suppression de documents malgré mails

Bonjour,

J'ai trouvé votre contact sur https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Personnel

Je me permets donc de vous écrire car je suis un nouveau contributeur sur Wikipedia (fetebeaupont). J'ai écrit un brouillon (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Fetebeaupont/Brouillon). Malheureusement, plusieurs de mes documents ont reçu une menace de suppression si je n'obtenais pas les autorisations. J'ai envoyé un premier mail le 8 décembre avec le courrier type à "permissions-commons-fr@wikimedia.org." Après une semaine sans réponse, j'ai relancé avec un deuxième mail le 14 décembre.

Surprise, ce mardi, wikimedia m'indique que mes fichiers ont été supprimés car ils n'ont pas reçu de mail d'autorisation !

Voici les 4 fichiers :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bulletin_municipal_de_Beaupont_1982.pdf

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bulletin_municipal_de_Beaupont_1998.pdf

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%A9moires_de_M._Roger_Bourgeon.pdf

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:M%C3%A9moires_de_M._Roger_Bourgeon.pdf&page=2

Pouvez-vous m'aider ? Que dois-je faire de plus ?

Sur le forum, un utilisateur m'indique qu'il fallait que je vous contacte suite à ce problème.

En vous remerciant d'avance,

--Fetebeaupont (talk) 15:27, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

fait :) Anthere (talk)

Happy new year 2015!

Happy New Year to you Dear Anthere --Grind24 (talk) 23:30, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Beautiful one ! Thanks Grind24 ! Anthere (talk)

WLA Fashion and Adornments

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yes. It was done. Anthere (talk) 20:19, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

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 Done

Could use your assistance, please

Anthere,

I saw your name on the Wikipedia Embassy list, hence this email. We have an issue concerning | Pierre Balanger on the BLP board. An editor has placed in highly questionable content about him in his article and sourced it to two online publications written in French. Althought Google translate does a fair job of translating, it would be better for a native French speaker to look at the article and verify that it says what the editor stated, second, to insure that the magazines (sources) themselves are not known as tabloid magazines as well. You expertise would be appreciated, just follow the link above for more details.

Thanks! Necromancer Wekeepwhatwekill 16:55, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

I answered. Short summary : sourced and relevant. Sources are perfectly fine. Anthere (talk) 17:37, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Je vous remercie ! I saw it on en.wikipedia! Necromonger Wekeepwhatwekill 19:40, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

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I need your opinion about this project Wikipedia African Academy 2016 --Touzrimounir (talk) 08:06, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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Bonjour, j'ai téléchargé cette illustration File:Stratobus artiste.jpg mais elle a été mentionnée avec informations insuffisantes. J'ai demandé aux créateurs de me faire parvenir un mail avec mention de la licence Commons adéquate. Ce qu'ils ont fait. J'ai transmis ce mail le 8 avril à l'adresse indiquée. Depuis je n'ai pas eu de réponse ni d'accusé de réception. Sur un article, j'ai lu que le délai pouvait être très long (71 jours) mais que je pouvais contacter un Utilisateur dévoué pouvant accélérer la procédure. C'est vous que j'ai choisi. Que pouvez-vous faire ?--Kasos fr (talk) 07:01, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

fait Anthere (talk)

#Love for african women (challenge)

Coucou à vous (toi) ! Je reviens à la charge concernant mon projet que je mets sur les rails, aujourd'hui ! Ce sera la chalenge #Love for african women (ça se passera ici). Je viens de créer la page (il me reste beaucoup à faire avant de lancer le chalenge). Peut-être t'intéressera-t-il ? L'idée est d'inciter les participants à créer, sur 52 semaines, 54 articles (un par pays Africain) sur une femme africaine. Peut-être accepteras-tu de corriger mon anglais et de faire quelques suggestions. Je suis preneur (tu sembles plus expérimentée que moi). Ne t'inquiètes pas, une fois créé, je piloterai le projet. Voilà, je ne fais pas long car tu ne réponds pas à tous les messages ici !Hop, hop ! Sg7438 (talk) 11:46, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Re:email

Hi! No I did not get it. :O Raystorm (talk) 10:07, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Grrrrrrrr mediawiki. I am not sure I have your email. Can you drop me a message at fdevouard ééé anthere.org ? Thanks Anthere (talk)

Re: User digest presentation at Wikimania

Hi Anthere. Sorry for the delay (vacation/wikibreak). Unfortunately, I won't be attending Wikimania this year. And I'm not sure who else from the Foundation to recommend... not sure who's going. But if you're still looking for someone, I can ask around. Best, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 19:57, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

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Where is the best place to discuss Wikipedia Primary School? I don't see any page at English so is it just at meta? I still can't figure out what the project is intending to do. It has identified a number of key basic articles that seem to be part of any primary school curriculum but I don't know if the goal is then take the primary schoolbook material into those articles (hence the expertise I presume) or use the articles for the material or what. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:06, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

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African images

Hi. I honestly think there was a misunderstanding on the contest proposal page Anthere and Rosie is the type who would greatly support and approve of what has been achieved to date. Belting was not intentional I'm certain, so let's move on from that.

All right.

Anyway, on the images, Agree completely on this, We badly need to increase African editors and images created within Africa. A few years back I proposed that Wikimedia supports a globalized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geograph_Britain_and_Ireland which would allow people to photograph their own village etc and photograph the entire planet geographically. I believe at one point Geograph were planning on merging with us It has been extremely productive for British villages and landmarks. If you would like to see this made global and people in Africa encouraged to photograph their communities let me know. You seem like you'd have good contacts as a former chair of the Board of Trustees, so can we try to garner support for a global photographing project which would benefit Africa too?

I think what you describe already exist. It is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa. Why would not you join to help ?

Honestly, I think that your desire to do things is great. But you have not taken the time to simply explore what is currently done. By chapters, by UserGroups, by regular wikipedias. You did not explore the context so it is not surprising that you bruise your peers on the way.

That doesn't try to photograph every grid square does it? Dr. Blofeld (talk) 07:29, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

As for increasing African participation, I think if we could find more funds injected into Africa we could potentially run a scheme in which we help out African students with university grants in return for writing for wikipedia. One big prize to perhaps pay for course fees for a year or something might work. I know Jimbo said a month or two back he'd support $1 million of WM funds going into African education. Anyway, I understand your doubts and dislikes, but please work with me on this as we can really start to change this with the right funding and contacts. If you were involved in the Wiki women drive, I'd like to thankyou, Merci!Dr. Blofeld (talk) 10:36, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Just for the record, Jimbo is Jimbo and what he says does not always come true. I am not very excited at the prospect of paying people to edit, as it comes along a whole bunch of issues. The role of WMF is not to support African education, it is to preserve our global asset, facilitate its growth, facilitate its reuse and lead the way on a bright and probably disrupting future. I'd rather WMF spend a few millions on disrupting technology that would make us climb next step than spending it paying course fees of Africans in exchange of new articles. I am not very excited either with the idea of a big monetary price for a contest. We want people to get excited and feel good about writing. The first goal should be to enjoy being together. I am a bit perplex as well as to how to give a big prize to an author of an article when our whole concept is carved upon collaboration and multiple people writing the article together.

You've got the wrong idea on the prize winning, see this for example. The funding would be split into smaller prizes, which any contributor could reasonably win on any one day by destubbing/improiving the most articles. It gives everybody a chance to win, so the idea that just one editor would get $1500 and the rest nothing isn't true. And that's the very reason I created this 10,000 series, I know what motivates people to produce and get excited about contributing, as I agree that's really what we want to achieve!Dr. Blofeld (talk) 07:42, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

However, to be on a positive note, here is a proposal to you. Reuse percentage of images following photo contests (Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth) are often quite low. Either because the article where the image would fit does not exist at all, or because no-one has given energy to try to "link" current articles with relevant images on Commons. Can you imagine a mean to change that ? Why not a challenge with a goal to "categorise properly and integrate pictures obtained from African photo contests into great articles about Africa", based on the pictures collected by the three main photo contests running in Africa (Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Earth). Does that raise your interest ? Anthere (talk)

@user:Dr. Blofeld, @ User:Mjohnson (WMF)

Yes I agree, of course, it is not WM'S goal to pay people to edit or be involved with African education. But I do think we need an incentive to bring in hundreds of new editors and find something which will motivate people to produce content. Substantial prizes do work I think, but we do have to be careful to avoid the "paid editing" stigma. I think for this we'd split the finding into smaller prizes anyway. I do think long term we need to contact educational institutions, particularly language schools and see more translating being done to benefit the African wikis. I think the Wiki Loves Africa is a great scheme, and I apologize if I haven't been fully update on recent developments. If there is a problem with categorization in the commons, and work badly needed for that, sure, why not propose a contest to get those photos categorized?

My approach to this really doesn't mean I'm trying to "save" the situation or am trying belittle the work alreayd done to date. I'm not American either ;-) BTW, if you're concerned that I'm invading turf or trying to belittle the efforts you and Isla have achieved to date I've left this message. You have experience lecturing in Africa I believe. You, Isla and anybody else is welcome to take the responsibility for running these regional African contests and the 10,000 drive for Africa. I would show you the points system and how the British ones work and then they can be run. I think we really need more funding going into development on these as Africa overall is really one of the weakest areas of the project, and we need something which is going to cover the entire continent.Dr. Blofeld (talk) 07:12, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Take a look at what has been achieved with the British one [1]. The majority of the content from that was produced from just two regional contests for Wales and The West Country. We've got nearly 100 Good articles out of it too and hundreds of core articles improved which would likely have never been improved otherwise. In total about 1800 articles now including stubs in just a few months. The same mechanism with prizes would be applied to Africa with five regional contests and to fuel reaching the 10,000 goal. I can see that you have the tendency to see the negative aspects on things first, but there's nothing negative about what has been achieved with the UK in just a few months, and it should be scaled to other countries like France, Germany and Italy and Africa too. Obviously eventually we hope there are enough contributors to sustain national drives for countries like South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt etc, but we have to start from somewhere. It really motivates people to produce content they might otherwise not produce. One of the hardest things to do on wikipedia is to motivate people to cleanup and develop poor stubs and bloated articles. The points system and prizes directly provides a mechanism for that, and I think it's what we need for developing a lot of the poorer articles we have across the African continent. Dr. Blofeld (talk) 07:24, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

I've withdrawn my Africa proposal. If you're still interested in this and you and Isla might be able to run them we can repropose it later but I've not been impressed with the hostility I've faced in trying to help here.Dr. Blofeld (talk) 15:33, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

user:Dr. Blofeld Gosh, I have not been there for 24 hours. Looks like stuff happened in the meanwhile, but I have no idea what... weird. Well... I had a long and tough day and must get up very early tomorrow. Will answer and comment tomorrow. Anthere (talk)

Check your main wikipedia user talk page, I'm thinking of a general destubbing one instead, and I'd like you and Isla to hold my hand as I launch it.;-) You're invited to be a lead coordinator of it, and you can even get French wiki in on it too if you like. Seriously though, I do respect what you've achieved to date, and I want your full support on this, and no negative comments!Dr. Blofeld (talk) 07:12, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

I've sent you an email from wikipedia!Dr. Blofeld (talk) 07:16, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Ok; I thank you deeply for this User:Dr. Blofeld. I appreciate and accept the apology.

For the email... I actually see the notification and the first few words of the message in the notification system on the English Wikipedia... but no email in my mail box. I have noticed several times that the email system actually often does not work, so it does not really surprise me at all (several times, I sent email to users who told me they got nothing). If you have a copy of this email, please sent it again at fdevouard ##@#@ anthere.org Thanks. I am leaving home in a few hours and will be away for 3 days for family issues. Do not take it personally if I do not answer. Anthere (talk)

This Month in GLAM: August 2016

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue VIII, August 2016 Headlines Argentina report: Workshop: ONU Mujeres; Case study: Digitization Project Basque Country report: Donostiapedia goes on Belgium report: Wiki Loves Art in Belgium finished, Wiki Loves Monuments started Brazil report: UG Wikimedia in Brazil: GLAM initiative with the Museum of Veterinary Anatomy will load hundreds of valuable images Estonia report: GLAM summer seminar France report: Belles and Bye Germany report: Cinamas in Cologne Italy report: WikiTrip and edit-a-thon at Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics Macedonia report: 42 audio CD's of 2000-hour recorded dialect speech Mexico report: Documenting Tolerance; Murals in Sonora Netherlands report: The Netherlands and the world Norway report: Monuments, music and books Republic of Srpska report: Wikimedia community of the Republic of Srpska continues GLAM cooperation with City of East Sarajevo Main Library Spain report: Wiki Loves contests and Royal Spanish Academy Sweden report: Craft and collections UK report: Liberal Club Edit-a-thon & Wellcome Training USA report: New York & D.C. events; Philadelphia events Open Access report: Wikiversity Journal of Medicine; WikiCite; Collective respiration in bees Wikidata report: New team members and lots for you to read! WMF GLAM report: IFLA #WLIC2016 & Updates Calendar: September's GLAM events Read this edition in full • Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

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