Grants:TPS/Eid John/Wikimania/2018/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2018!

Participant

Iddy John

Outcome

Option 1: Shared Experience: What is one way you shared something from your experience with your community (either locally or globally), after the event?

Add a link here to a blog post or newsletter you wrote about your participation afterwards, or to a meet-up you organized to share your experience with your local community.

Since came back home after Wikimania Capetown 2018, I was quite busy with few deadlines of my own, but this September looking forward to share a lot with my community and local volunteers in Tanzania about new Wikimedia projects, and excited as we will start Wiki Loves Monument and as well as Wiki Loves Africa this month.

Connections

Woubzena Jifar
Katherine Maher
Erina Muhame
lodewijk
Isaac Kanguya
Stefanie Kastner
Bobby Shabangu
Florence Devouard
Isla Haddow Flood
May Hachem
McKensie Mack
Anasuya Sengupta
Siko Bouterse
Claudia Pozo
Kira Allmann
Shamillah Wilson
Zubaida Hattas
Ayesha Davids
Sumaiyah Davids
Amira Dhalla
Anna Torres Adell
Asaf Bartov
Ashwin Mathew
Beatrice Savadye
Ben Vershbow
Bishakha Datta
Carmen Alcázar
Carolyne Ekyarisiima
Christel Steigenberger
Daisy Selematsela
Daniel Bogre Udell
Evangeline Udenyi
Fanelwa Ngece Ajayi
Garfield Byrd
Gavin Weale
Ghiwa Sayegh
Gisela Perez de Acha
Eow
gretchen andrew
Heather Hart
Ivàn Martìnez
Jake Orlowitz
Jasmeen Patheja
Joana Varon
João Alexandre Peschanski
Joy Agyepong
Kelly Foster
Chan
Meral Akkent
Milia Eidmouni
Mmaki Jantjies
Nayantara Ranganathan
Nick Shockey
Nicola
Peter Cunliffe-Jones
Purity Kagwiria
Viktor Semeniuk
Sydette Harry
Jason Hudson
Shun-Ling Chen
Kalli O Pe
Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
Ryan Kaldari
Satdeep Gill

I met with Lodewijk through Florence and Isla, also got introduced to Woubzena and later Katherinie, there were interesting chats and meetups about Wiki projects and how their focusing and helping locals chapters and communities to do more and better. With this discussion we were able to discuss about Wiki Loves Women, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Monuments and even had a chance ti add Tanzania on a map.

Daniel from Wiki Tongue was one key people I met, and we've opened a discussion on how we can spread the words and be part of Wiki Tongues in Tanzania.

Met with Katherine who ended introducing me to Richard, which we happen to discuss and talk about all projects in general and few points were made clear and as well as a promise to stay in touch participate more events and not to hesitate to ask for help or share advice if necessary any time.

I will say in general every I've met on this event are so communicative and friendly, people were keen to help and make sure your issues are settled, without not to mention meeting my Wiki Loves Africa SA and UG team, Florence, Isla, Erina and others, as this it was my first time after being part of Wiki projects for the past four years in Tanzania.

The whole experience was amazing, also met with Issac Kanguya who happen to be my room mate and a friend during the all days of events, he shared with me his experience of editing by using his phone and the number of articles he has added on Wiki, which made re-think of an idea of start writing on my local language "Swahili".

Anything else

This was my first Wikimani, first Wiki global experience, I should thank the South Africa Wikimedia for the Scholarship, and I truly appricoate the effort both Bobby Shabangu and Stefanie Kastner made to make sure my logistic and other arrangement are all settled. I will share my exeprience to others back home "Tanzana" and I believe there will be another room for this type of experience for me and other volunteers, this type of experience are indeed eye opener and they can help number of communities and chapters volunteers understand the main goal and goals of focus of wikipedia.

Lastly, somehting like "Decolonizing the internet" should never die, it was an amazing hack, this type of discussion should always be part of Wikimania Events and other Wiki gatherings.