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Wikimedia ZA Annual General Meeting 2017

This is just to let everyone know that the Wikimedia ZA AGM will be taking place in November 2017 in Cape Town. See below for more details.

• Time: Sunday, 26 November 2017, starts at 14:00 to 17:00
• Location: 6 Spin Street Restaurant (in the Tutu room at the back), ground floor, 6 Spin Street, in the Cape Town city bowl area.

If you would like to attend digitally we will be broadcasting the event over Google Hangouts, to join click on the link here.

The event page can be found on the Wikimedia ZA website here.

The AGM is open to all South African based Misplaced Pages and other Wikimeddia project editors. Membership is required to vote on resolutions but not required to attend. People are able to sign up as members at the AGM or they can signup before hand at the details on the Wikimedia ZA website.

5th Meetup

Everyone is warmly invited to attend the 5th South African online discussion held on Zulip.

Date and time

• Date: Saturday, 26 September 2020
• Start time: 10:00 AM SAST
• End Time: 12:00 PM SAST
• Location: Online Meeting
  • Platform: Zulip (text chat)
    • Server: Wikimedia ZA (note: registration is necessary)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

Wikimedia ZA Annual General Meeting 2021

This is just to let everyone know that the Wikimedia ZA AGM will be taking place on 25 September 2021. See below for more details.

• Time: Saturday, 25 September 2021, starts at 10:00 to 16:00. With intermission at 13:00
• Location: held digitally online this link

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Misplaced Pages!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

Romansbaai and Hydra Bay

Can someone check if Hydra Bay and ceb:Romansbaai are the same thing? Both list the opposite name as an alternative name, but their coordinates are listed as different places on Wikidata. If this is a single bay, what are the correct coordinates? Batrachoseps (talk) 15:19, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

It looks like the previous map on Hydra Bay was wrong, and the Wikidata coordinates have been corrected, and the two articles have been linked on Wikidata. Batrachoseps (talk) 18:34, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Nice to see that the correction was done. After I saw your message here, I went to check the Wikidata Item for both pages and found them the same. I guess somebody quickly made the correction after reading your message. Google Maps has indeed convinced me that they are the same place. GeographicAccountant (talk) 18:43, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Maintenance templates

Good Day I hope you're doing well. I'm currently working on improving the article (Thembu Kingdom) and noticed that a maintenance template has been added. I've reviewed the issues raised by the template and have made the necessary improvements. However, I’m unsure if the template can now be safely removed.

Would you be able to review the page and confirm whether the issues have been resolved, and if so, assist with removing the template?

Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Best regards, Getrude89 (talk) 23:47, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Homevale High School

This stub is rated mid-importance yet has been unsourced for-5 years and was proposed for deletion in the past 4 years. Please find and add sources. I see some online. Bearian (talk) 21:09, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

We should start an article on Ingoapele Madingoane

We should start an article on Ingoapele Madingoane - "Poet and social activist Ingoapele Madingoane is considered the doyen of modern, politically conscious oral poetry. The late Madingoane was a formidable member of the 1976 Black Consciousness Sowetan poets.He wrote the famous, evocative, mini-epic poem, Africa my Beginning, which was published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg in 1979 and banned by the apartheid authorities two months later. Madingoane performed the poem widely in Soweto, accompanied by Mihloti Black Theatre’s flutes and drums. It became a regular feature during the protest rallies and funerals of anti-apartheid activists. He has had an indelible impact and influence on the post-apartheid generations of poets, including world-renowned poets Lesego Rampolokeng, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya, and Kgafela oa Magogodi. Madingoane was honored with a SALA Literary Posthumous Award in 2007, nine years after his death"

- 189.122.84.88 (talk) 15:04, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Film year problem

I've come across a South African film, The Demon (1979 film), with a significant problem — the title says 1979, but the release date in the template says 1981, and it's categorized as a 1981 film rather than a 1979 film. The few sources that are readily available on the web say it's 1981, but there's been edit-warring in the past over unsourced claims that it premiered in South Africa in 1979 with 1981 pertaining to a later US release rather than the premiere, which is how the current conflict arose.

But the article has to be internally consistent — if it really did premiere in SA in 1979, then the article text and categories need to be modified from 1981 to 1979, and if it didn't, then the page title needs to be moved to 1981, and the current situation where the article is contradicting itself cannot continue. So, as I don't have access to the kind of archived South African media coverage it might take to verify whether the claims of a 1979 release are accurate or not, I wanted to ask if somebody here who does have such resources could look into this and figure out which way to fix the issue.

Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 16:17, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

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