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Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

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)

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

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

Community Notification: Kwara State University Photowalk

Dear all,I wish to notify the WikiProject Nigeria of the proposed Kwara State University Photowalk a project aim to enhance and improve library and other Wikimedia projects and campaign in Kwara State. See details of this project via this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Omolarabasirat/Kwara_State_University_Photowalk If you would love to participate, please kindly reach out to me via my talk page Omolarabasirat (talk) 12:26, 11 October, 2021. (UTC)

FIRST ANTI-BULLYING DAY HELD IN LAGOS, NIGERIA by Dr.NIYI OSILAJA

Leadnow Youth Development Initiative In conjunction with the Lagos State Ministry of Education held its first ever anti-bullying campaign to mark the 2022 International Day Against Violence, Bullying At School Including Cyberbullying; perhaps the first of its kind to assume its loudest in Nigeria since its observance across the world.

The event which was held at Ikeja Grammar School had in attendance about 300 students. Guests speakers from all walks of life including the schools' counsellors and teachers as well as representatives from the Lagos State Ministry of Education.

The theme of this year's event is: Lift Each Other Up.

The theme, though borrowed from Canada where the celebration originated, is being adopted to mark this year's anti-bullying day. The theme portrays elemental significance of tolerance, love and care for young people including adults who are faced with threats of bullying, that in the face of circumstantial ordeals in which they have been maltreated and traumatised, suffered maganalisation and discrimination, they can be strengthened, and in addition, that prevention and elimination of violence and bullying related attitude is possible in our society

Speaking at the event, the initiator and the head of the youth organisation, Dr Niyi Osilaja said that the time has come now to give anti-bullying vigorous campaign and serious sensitization. Young people were asked to speak up and report bullying cases in the anti-bullying box shared and given to schools by the organisation. A book entitled: Overcoming Bullying in School - a parental, teacher and social responsibility was launched, together with Leadnow Club.

Since Sylvester Oromoni saga that took hold of the social media in 2021, which apparently caused commotion in the nation, bullying has gained a nationwide attention with Lagos State Government making a serious move against it.

On the 10th of December, 2021 Governor Sanwo-Olu led a massive campaign against bullying in schools while at the commissioning of a hostel and block of classrooms at Lagos State Model College, Ikorodu. The Governor said, "Let us all stop bullying, we would not allow bullying in any of our schools. If you are in a senior school, you are not meant to bully your junior pupils. You are meant to encourage and support them. You should never bully any students because they will also grow up to become senior students. So, say it out, if anybody is unnecessarily bullying. It is when you support each other that you will grow to become great students and citizens of this nation.” This is a social problem in our society today which remains a thing of great concern to everyone. It is believed that this will curb bullying and all sort of violence in schools and promote peace and development. 105.112.75.83 (talk) 15:48, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

How does this concerns WikiProject Nigeria, or even Wikipedia as a whole?? Maybe you should create a Wikipedia username so I can get more historical context to this.HandsomeBoy (talk) 10:17, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Help with this draft page: Yonov Frederick Agah

Dear all, I hope that you are all fine? Please note that the Wikipedia page of Yonov Frederick Agah, was moved to the draft space. It was stated that "incubate in draftspace, BLP for active diplomat that badly sourced. Great article apart from that". In this case, as Wikipedia articles that have not been improved on will be deleted after six months - I wanted to kindly request help in improving the page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Yonov_Frederick_Agah thank you. Planetearth285 (talk) 11:40, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

@Planetearth285: I have added the article to my watchlist. I will make some contributions as time permits. But a quick one, instead of writing Teaching, 1978 – 1982 as a section header, I think 1978 - 1982: Academic engagements is more in line with our manual of style. You also need to limit the content to very key information, it needs to be trimmed down a bit. There are unnecessary information in the article. Then lastly and probably the most important are your references. Some sections in the article do not even have a single reference. Many have just one reference with a lot of text and multiple paragraphs. You need to make it clear where you are getting those information from. Regards.HandsomeBoy (talk) 10:14, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi @HandsomeBoy: thanks a lot for your response, and for agreeing to contribute to the draft, I really appreciate it. On changing "Teaching, 1978 – 1982 as a section header, to 1978 - 1982: Academic engagements" - the suggested change is very fine with me, I can update it accordingly. Regarding references and cutting things down, I also agree with you. At the moment, I am actually working on gathering more references, but this has been challenging tbh, but I will edit the page as advised. Lastly, please I would love to collaborate with you on this page. So, I really hope that time permits you to make changes. Thanks once again Planetearth285 (talk) 12:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

@ Planetearth285, I would advise not editing the page per concerns on your talk page. If HandsomeBoy is willing to contribute I think it best to make suggestions and let that editor make changes. Otr500 (talk) 14:20, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Otr500: ahh, I am getting different advises. I was told by a different editor that in the draft, I could edit it. However, in this case @HandsomeBoy: or Otr500, please make the changes as suggested by HandsomeBoy. Thank you Planetearth285 (talk) 16:43, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting open from 7 to 21 March 2022

Hello everyone,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) is now open! Voting commenced on SecurePoll on 7 March 2022 and will conclude on 21 March 2022. Please read more on the voter information and eligibility details.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire movement. The revised enforcement guidelines were published 24 January 2022 as a proposed way to apply the policy across the movement. You can read more about the UCoC project.

You can also comment on Meta-wiki talk pages in any language. You may also contact the team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Sincerely,

Movement Strategy and Governance

Zuz (WMF) (talk) 10:44, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Wikimedia for Digital Literacy: NLA @ 60th Anniversary

Hi Community Members,

I am writing to notify this community of the grant proposal. The projection is aimed at consolidating the success recorded so far and engendering Wikimedia projects as a veritable tool for promoting digital literacy LIS educators, Librarians and Library students. See here for do

Kind regards

1. Atibrarian (talk) 16:24, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Community Notification

Hello all,

I am writing to notify you all about the 2022 Hackathon in Kwara State proposed grant. Click here to view the proposal.

Kind regards, Favourdare123 (talk) 16:24, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

@Favourdare123: Thank you for the notification. You should consider adding your username as a member of WikiProject Nigeria, it helps in facilitating progression and on-wiki developments.HandsomeBoy (talk) 10:57, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

AWC in Nigeria

Good day to you all,

I am using the medium to inform you all about the proposed Africa Wiki Challenge grant. You can check here to view the grant page.

Thank you very much.

Best regards, Major Lyte (talk) 09:15, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

@Major Lyte: Thank you for the notification. You should consider adding your username as a member of WikiProject Nigeria, it helps in facilitating progression and on-wiki developments.HandsomeBoy (talk) 11:17, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia Awareness for Library and Information Science Students in Nigeria

Hello All, Here is a notification and link to my grant proposal here You are welcome to endorse it. Thanks Linason Blessing (talk) 20:11, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

@Linason Blessing: Thank you for the notification. You should consider adding your username as a member of WikiProject Nigeria, it helps in facilitating progression and on-wiki developments. My challenge is - before endorsing I always have suggestions/questions/etc. Sometimes it is best I don't endorse. HandsomeBoy (talk) 11:03, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

Okay, i have done just that sir Thanks for the observation.. Linason Blessing (talk) 15:39, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Federal Medical Centres, University Teaching Hospitals and Federal Specialty Hospitals in Nigeria Contest

A contest will be organized for Nigerian editors on English Wikipedia to create articles about Federal Medical Centres, University Teaching Hospitals and Federal Specialty Hospitals in Nigeria.

The contest is expected to run from 1 June till 30th June 2022.

Your comments and feedback regarding the contest are duly welcome. Thanks everyone. —Nnadigoodluck███ 11:15, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

This is a good one. I love how you limited to only a certain category of hospitals that should be automatically notable as long as verifiable content can be found about them. HandsomeBoy (talk) 19:41, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

HandsomeBoy Thanks for your feedback. —Nnadigoodluck███ 19:43, 8 May 2022 (UTC)