On Tuesday 30th of August 2016 at the regional cultural delegation in Douala, Georges Fodouop made an intervention during the seminar on ‘skills reinforcement’ of the ligue des photographes camerounais from the coastline region. It was about trying to inform the photographers about the opportunity to upload content about important women in Cameroon and Cameroon … Read More
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Wikimédia Côte d’Ivoire starts the « Contribution parties » aimed to Wiki Loves Women project
On Friday 14th of October 2016, the agency E-voir, Wikimédia Côte d’Ivoire Head office, hosted its first ‘contribution parties’ session as part of the Wiki Loves Women project. Aimed at encouraging the contribution of content for the project Wiki Loves Women, the first session of the ‘contribution parties’ managed to gather around ten wikimedians who … Read More
Capturing the attention of photographers to upload new content
On Tuesday 30th of August 2016 at the regional cultural delegation in Douala, Georges Fodouop took part in the seminar aimed at Cameroonian photographers. He managed to capture their attention to produce more content on important women from Cameroon and on Cameroon through the Wiki Loves Women project and the photo competition Wiki Loves Africa.
Public event linked to Wikipedia
In collaboration with the person responsible for the communication of the projecton Saturday 10th of September 2016 at the Wikpedia’s ActivSpaces, of Wiki Loves Women. Photo competition Wiki Loves Africa and Writing competition WikiVillages.
Back to creating articles…
It was on Saturday 24th of September 2016 in ActivSpaces in Douala where during the wikithon, we created the article aboutDora Decca, Cameroonian artist and we trained to learn how to insert a photo in an article after uploading it in Wikimedia Commons.
First workshop on creating new articles in Douala
After launching the first public event in Douala on the 6th of August 2016, it was important to move to a more practical phase and start creating encyclopaedic articles. The meeting which took place on Saturday 13th of August 2016 helped us creating the article on Elisabeth Medou Badang.
Digital Thursday welcomes Wikipedia and Wiki Loves Women in Douala
Digital Thursday is a community network pulled by businesses, investors and innovators to discuss digital orientations, share knowledge, stimulate new ideas and move things along. To this effect, a monthly event is organised each Thursday in a shape of an afterwork and regrouping all the digital actors wishing to exchange about new trends and latest … Read More
Introducing Wiki Loves Women project at the Goethe Institute in Yaounde.
Saturday 25th of June 2016, a edit-a -thon took place at the Goethe Institute in Yaoundé in Cameroon, with the main themes being : creating articles in wikipédia, introducing Wiki Loves Women project and the writing competition Wikivillages. It was the first time most of the volunteers working on the different projects and activities organised … Read More
Workshop on writing new articles
Following the wikithon on Saturday 16th of July, the participants decided to meet up on Saturday 26th Of July at the Goethe Institut Kamerun in Yaoundé. During this meeting, the article on Pascale Obolo, artist, producer and director from Cameroon has been created.
Introducing Wiki Loves Women at the Africa femmes digitales forum
Invited as a panelist on Tuesday 26th of July 2016 at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé as part of the “Africa Femmes digitales” forum, Georges Fodouop was asked to talk about the Wiki Loves Women project through the theme: Women and their visibility on Internet: Wikipédia’s case. The main theme of the forum was … Read More