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Wikimania scholarship application for SA and SADC
The South African Wikimedia chapter is awarding a limited number of full and partial scholarships to attend Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town to SADC and South African based Wikimedians. The due date for applications is 30 May. You can get more information by clicking here. Don't waste time APPLY NOW! (Google docs form provided by WMZA) 20:36, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia Capacity Building Workshop
Wikimedia South Africa will be hosting Asaf Bartov from the Wikimedia Foundation for 5 days where he will be conducting a series of Capacity Building Workshops in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The workshops are aimed at addressing challenges faced by African Wikimedians and share tools that will enable them to better increase African content. In Johannesburg the workshops will take place on 25 - 26 May 2018 at the Goethe Institut, and in Cape Town Asaf will be meeting Wikimedians on 29 May 2018. Come and join us either in Johannesburg or Cape Town, we can pay for your travel to attend in either of these cities. You can click here to see more information or you can contact info@wikimedia.org.za. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:28, 20 May 2018 (UTC), delivered on behalf of

Application for WikiIndaba Steering Committee Open
The due date for applying to be part of the WikiIndaba steering committee (WISCom) is this Friday the 22nd. Apply now and be part of the African Wikimedia Movement. (Message from 10:57, 20 June 2018 (UTC))

Invitation from Wikimedia Portugal
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Olá. A Wikimedia Portugal é uma associação portuguesa sem fins lucrativos, fundada em 2009, reconhecida pela Wikimedia Foundation como "chapter" de Portugal. A nossa missão é, em geral, contribuir para a disseminação generalizada do saber e da cultura, através do incentivo à recolha e criação de conteúdos isentos de restrições de utilização, modificação e distribuição, e da difusão dos mesmos; e em particular, promover e apoiar os projetos da Wikimedia Foundation, entre os quais a Wikipédia, com ênfase para os projetos nas línguas faladas em Portugal, o português e o mirandês.

Gostaríamos de contar com o apoio de (e reciprocamente apoiar) todos os voluntários naturais, residentes ou simplesmente interessados em Portugal. Embora fundada em 2009, a associação teve um largo período de inatividade, que estamos agora a ultrapassar. Vimos por isso convidá-lo, caso nisso tenha interesse, a inscrever-se como associado da associação, demonstrar apoio à existência de um "chapter" em Portugal, e a envolver-se em atividades futuras inscrevendo-se na lista de distribuição de email. Recentemente, a Comissão de Afiliações da Wikimedia suspendeu o apoio à Wikimedia Portugal, pendente, entre outras coisas, do apoio da comunidade de editores portugueses. 

Agradecemos desde já!

Hi! Wikimedia Portugal is the Portuguese chapter of Wikimedia, founded in 2009 and recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation. Our mission is to contribute to the general dissemination of knowledge and culture through the incentive to the collection and creation of content without restrictions on use, modification and distribution, and promote their difusion; we promote and support the Wikimedia Foundation projects, among which Wikipedia, with emphasis on projects in Portuguese and Mirandese.

We would like however to count on the support of (and in turn ourselves support) all volunteers that are citizens, resident, or simply interested in Portugal. Despite being founded in 2009, the chapter has gone through a long period of inactivity that we are trying to overcome. We have sent you this message to invite you, if you are interested, to enroll as associate to the chapter, demonstrate your support to the existence of a chapter in Portugal, and get involved in the discussion of future activities by registering in the mailing list. Recentely, the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee suspended support to Wikimedia Portugal pending, among other things, the support from the community of portuguese editors. GoEThe (talk) 14:19, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

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Ghaleb Cachalia
If you don't mind my asking, where did you get the source material for the article on Ghaleb Cachalia, an article which you started? It seems somewhat promotional, so I am curious if it was from DA party materials, or somehow sourced from material written by the subject themselves. See early revisions: Park3r (talk) 22:25, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
 * You can see the references under the article. I am not affiliated with the DA, if that is what you are implying. AWildAppeared (talk) 15:56, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

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Copyright problem on Racism in South Africa
Content you added to the above article appears to have been copied from http://www.sahrc.org.za/home/21/files/Health%20Report.pdf, which is not released under a compatible license. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed. Please let me know if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 13:51, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Diannaa I have no idea what you removed, so I can't fix the problem. Next time, if you want to actually be useful, you can indicate to people which paragraphs in the original are supposedly being infringed. As it stands, thanks for nothing. AWildAppeared (talk) 14:21, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Your addition was flagged by a bot as a potential copyright issue and was assessed by myself. Here is a link to the bot report. Click on the iThenticate link to view what the bot found. The source where the overlap takes place is not the same source as the one you cited. Neither of the two potential sources is compatibly licensed for us to copy from unaltered. The content was in the Racism in South Africa section. I actually removed only a little text and paraphrased the remainder.— Diannaa (talk) 15:31, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

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August 2021
Your recent bold edit has been reverted. Per the bold, revert, discuss cycle, after a bold edit is reverted, the status quo should remain while a discussion is started instead of edit-warring, and it should be resolved before reinstating the edit, after a needed consensus is formed to keep it. Woodroar (talk) 21:14, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Grace Randolph for deletion
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Grace Randolph Controversy Section
I see that back in August you were thinking of removing this section, and I agree as it encourages trolls to add other controversies. As the original creator of this page I think it would be really helpful if you were to follow your original instinct. So I hope you'll reconsider. I'm a fan of Randolph's and its brutal to see some of the unfair trolling on her page. Thanks either way. ChromaticaCali (talk) 01:48, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
 * User talk:ChromaticaCali, I did some editing on the article today to remove unwarranted edits. Some of the stuff is notable enough now that it will remain. Thanks for the prompt. It probably needs a reorganisation of the "controversies" section ... If someone hasn't fixed it by the next time I pop in, I'll do it. AWildAppeared (talk) 10:32, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Just saw them! Your revisions look totally fair to me, super appreciate you stepping in as you have a lot more experience and weight to your edits than I do. Thanks! ChromaticaCali (talk) 23:16, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
 * FYI some of your edits were undone, including the Lady & The Tramp section put back in by the editor who originally added it. Since I agree with you that section in particular is very poorly sourced, I've submitted it to the Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard with a detailed explanation and evidence as to why that section should be removed. Again, if you wouldn't mind weighing in there it would be appreciated. Whatever you feel comfortable doing. Thanks again. ChromaticaCali (talk) 13:44, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikimania in South Africa
Wikimania 2022 is almost here (11-14 August 2022) and will be held entirely online this year with the exception of a number of local mini-Wikimania's for local community members. I just wanted to let you know that two local Wikimania mini-events will be happening in South Africa; one in Cape Town and one in Johannesburg. Participants will be able to attend both the international event from these local events. If you are interested, available and in the area at the time we would be delighted to have you join us. For more information please checkout the South Africa mini-event page here. You can also fill out the interest form here. Discott (talk) 09:33, 15 July 2022 (UTC)