Wiki Update

Wiki Update

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Wiki Update episodes

  • Ghana Histo Cita-thon Insight With Efua Mansa Ayiah

    In this episode of Wiki Update, we had the opportunity to speak with Efua Mansa Ayiah from the Library department of the College of Languages Education at the University of Winneba. She shared her taught on citation and also gave us something interesting about women in the month of Women.


    6 min
  • The Ghana Pidgin Community Discussion With Maxwell Beganim & Faisal Ali

    In this episode of Wiki Update we had to amazing personalities in the persons of Maxwell Beganim & Faisal Ali who are the Co-founders of the Ghanaian Pidgin Wikimedians Communities. They shared insights on the emerging communities and how best these new emerging language community can have effect on the youth and the generation to come. We also spoke extensively on their major event happening on 7 January,2023. This event seeks to recruit and also have changes in the language space looking at the pidgin language as a whole. 

    33 min
  • Celebrating International Podcast Day With The Wikimedian Communities

    We rap-up the year with an episode which has been pending;thus International Podcast Day. Wiki Update as a community podcast seeks to celebrate the day by inviting lead speakers from the open community and beyond to tell engaging stories that has led to impact of the open community and beyond.

    We had Dave Lee the founder of International Podcast Day giving the keynote address for the day, We had Maxwell Beganim who is a climate activist given us insights on the importance of podcasting and climate activities, We had Ruby Damenshie-Brown the executive director at Open Foundation West Africa giving us insights on the Universal Code of Conducts & it's importance & the African Wiki Challenge which is an annual campaign that seeks to promote African culture by engaging contributors to ensure that at the end of the day more contribution are made in relation to the African context and skills are acquired at the end of the day, We also had a Mohammed Sadat Abdulai who also spoke extensively about wikidata birthday and it's benefits to the community at-large,Collins Ohene Aboagye a Dr.in training gave us insight on Wikipedia and how it has affected health and it having a good number of articles on health related issue and how it has now become a useful tool to the ordinary person to access, finally we spoke to Amire where he share insights on language and how language is important for doing podcasting.

    1 hr 28 min
  • Wikimania 2022 Hackathon Short Insight By Haley Lepp

    In the latest episode of Wiki Update which is dubbed the Wikimania Edition, we had the privilege to have Haley Lepp (Developer & Advocacy WMF); she gave us a brief insight on why you need to join Wikimania 2022 Hackathon:The Festival Edition & the impacts it would have on most importantly the newbies and also harnessing the skills of old and active community members

    3 min
  • The Skin of Wikipedia With Olga Vasileva

    In this episode of Wiki Update we had the Opportunity to speak to Olga Vasileva a Product Manager of the Wikimedia Foundation, sharing insights on the new skin of wikipedia and how community appreciate this innovation to have an impact.

    send her an email if you have further questions - [email protected]

    42 min

About Wiki Update

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The podcast seeks to update, educate, train and engage listeners or community members on the use of Wikimedia projects.