Wiki Update

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. 

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.

In the latest episode of Wiki Update we had the opportunity to speak to  Ndahiro Derrick Alter, lead for Rwanda Wikimedia Community, shares more insights and details about Wiki Indaba 2022.

In this episode of Wiki Update, join Ruby Damenshie-Brown as she shares the same space with Alex Stinson having a session on Growing WikiForHumanRights: Learning from a Global Topics for Impact Campaign at this year's Wikimania 2022:The Festival Edition.

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

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 - olga@wikimedia.org

In this episode of Wiki Update we had the opportunity to feature Alice Kibombo; sharing insights on the Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention. Read more:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%2BLibraries_International_Convention_2022/Organization

In this episode of Wiki Update; we had the opportunity to speak to Antone & NANöR who are part of the Core Organizing Team (COT), sharing insights on the design or the building blocks of Wikimania 2022 and how it is going to impact community.

A Talk With Euphemia Uwandu On Reimagining How The Open Movement Can Widening Participation, Creation & Accessing Solution To Climate Issues.

In this episode of Wiki Update, we had a conversation with Faisal Ali aka DaSupremo on an Emerging Language for the community known us Ghana English Pidgin. We talked about the impact and the future of this emerging language in the wikispace. At the end of the conversation we literally spoke Ghana Pidgin English and afterwards I explained what we said.

In this episode of Wiki Update, we had the opportunity to speak to two amazing women from the Wikidata Community and they are in the persons of Lydia Pintscher & Lèa Lacroix. They share their thoughts on the up and coming event that is going to have an impact on the community. Event link: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Quality_Days_2022

In this episode of Wiki Update, we had the opportunity to speak with Richard Nevell (WMUK)& Lea Lacroix (WMDE). This talk was basically about the Celtic Knot, much insights were shared by both of them.  Get excited by reading more on the Celtic Knot here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022

In this episode of Wiki Update we had the privilege to speak with Julian Asiedu-Akrofi on World Environment Day. He talked about its significance, measures, and impact on the global community.

Hi community, my name is Jesse but the community calls me Jwale. In this episode of Wiki Update, we had the opportunity to speak to Eugene Kafui Masiku, the communication lead for Open Foundation West Africa, who shared light on the Africa Wiki Challenge in June 2022 and the opportunities it will provide for volunteers and communities in the diaspora.

In this episode of Wiki Update, we had the opportunity to speak with Pamela Ofori-Boateng with the pseudonym Wiki Diva, giving us insight on the project she ran at the University of New Mexico, which at the end of the campaign had an impact on her student. Music Credit: PJ Haward, Issa Vibe

In this episode of Wiki Update, we had the opportunity to speak with Joris Darlington Quarshie, a developer, data scientist, and the Wikimedia technical community manager in Africa. He shares insights on the Wikimedia Hackathon Global event and spoke extensively about the local hackathon event organized by him and his team.

In this episode of Wiki Update, we had a fantastic opportunity to speak to Robert, the project lead for the Fante TranslateWiki Workshop, which is part of the local Wikimedia Hackathon event. This event seeks to train indigenes of the Fante dialect on how they can contribute to the project and grow the Fante dialect

In this episode of Wiki Update, we had the opportunity to speak to a biochemist who is a chemistry teacher, she is Onome Angelle, and she shares her story about her foundation, its impacts, and the wiki's.

In this episode of Wiki Update, we had the opportunity to feature a talk of our very own, Otuo Acheampong Boakye who is a Wikipedian Green activities and part of the core organizing team of the Wiki-Green Conference, he happens to have an amazing presentation at the Tree Talk session at The XV World Forestry Congress 2021.  Credit: XV World Forestry Congress

In this episode of Wiki Update, we went out to the street of Ghana to speak to an amazing personality who is an average income earner who is in the person of Theophilus and how he and his community use digital tools to make life simpler by linking Wikipedia to it.