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To apply for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) Regional Committee, please review the general information about the MEA Regional Committee and then submit your application by February 20th, 2023 by providing a statement below with the following information:

  • What country are you based in?
  • Tell us about yourself and why you want to join a Regional Committee. Please consider responding to some of the questions below, but it is not necessary to respond to all of them in your application. Please keep your statement under 500 words.
    • What is your current participation in the Wikimedia movement or the Free Knowledge Ecosystem?
    • How do you think you could contribute towards the committees’ role and ways of working?
    • How do you think the committee could make decision making more participatory?
    • How do you think the committee could improve grantmaking so it has a greater impact?
    • What skills, background or experience could you bring to the committee? You might address grantmaking, knowledge equity, or other relevant areas.
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Applications may alternatively be sent to mea_fund wikimedia org for review. You are not required to post your application on Meta-Wiki. Please use the subject line MEA Regional Committee application and your name or username for clarity (for example: Subject: MEA Regional Committee Application - Jane Doe). Please note that after receiving your application over email, we will publish your username/full name on Meta. This is done to ensure a more transparent application process.

Names of candidates who applied by email

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Names of candidates who applied here

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The following discussion is closed:
  1. User:Macocobovi
  2. User:sadammuhammad11234
  3. User:Rosedesable4
  4. User:Itzedubaba
  5. User:Discott
  6. User:BamLifa

Application submission is completed. --DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 07:22, 14 April 2023 (UTC)


Candidates for the MEA Committee

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LAPANG MARK

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  • I base in Nigeria.
  • I am Lapang Mark from Nigeria, a member of Igbo Wikimedia User Group, I want to join this committee because, I will like to share my previous committee experiences(not Wikimedia) and also learn new one. I am a team player.

Macocobovi (talk)

sadam muhammad

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  • Passionate editor

I'm Sadam Muhammad from Zaria kaduna Nigeria my wiki user name, Sadammuhammad11234,

  • My name is sadam from Nigeria I want be part of this very interesting program and give this great because is help me more in my education thanks

Ratiba

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Hello Everyone, my name is Ratiba,I'm Italian/Algerian citizen. I worked in the past as chemical engineer in oil companies in Algeria, Congo, Italy, for personal choice, I took a career break to raise my 3 kids.I work part-time as volunteer to help minors refugees in studying. I speak fluently four languages; Arabic, Italian, French and English. I would like to join Wikimedia and give my contribution . Best Regards

Itzedubaba

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I'm itzedubaba from Nigerian an experienced Wikipedia also a well learned forensic scientist having hosted and participated in several Wikipedia activities ranges from aweerenes wiki campaign edi a thon and so many things to mentioned I also once served as board of trustee Hausa Wikipedia user group Am also an activist with my experienced and learning from Wikipedia and in my area of specialization I think I have what's it's takes to served as a member regional committee on grants one of my greatest strength is my ability to learn fast on work and teach my self different skills sets and while I don't have much experienced in grants selection team, I think my ability to learn will help me overcome the obstacles quickly I've been exposed to both structured and unstructured work environment so I feel I can easily adapt to this kind of work I've been part of both small and large teams so this seems like something that is right up my alley I think the grants committee should make the decision more participatory by involving more and different people into the team to ensure equity and more inclusive participation of interested people into the regional grants committee team and also the committee should discharged their duties with deligence and professionalism without any fear or favour and also in lined with Wikipedia strategy movements goals when given the opportunity to served as a member regional committee I'll work tirelessly and I'll also employed my knowledge on graphology and personalty trait test into the team. Itzedubaba (talk) 16:58, 16 February 2023 (UTC)


Douglas Scott

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I have been a Wikipedia editor since 2006 and a senior chapter member of Wikimedia South Africa since 2012. I was president of Wikimedia South Africa from 2015 to 2020, helped organised the first WikiIndaba conference and was the lead organiser of Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town. I also currently sit on the WMF Conference Fund committee and am extensively involved in advocacy efforts to make South African copyright law better for Wikipedia editors by adding Freedom of Panorama. In my day job I am a criminologist specialising in the social study of violent crime in urban areas for the Safety Lab. I speak fluent English as well as some Afrikaans and Chinese.

I can contribute my exstensive community experience and commitment to the comittee. This includes my experience as both a grant applicant, a community leader and as a member of a grant awarding committee. I greatly value community health and the sprit of good faith cooperation in growing the Wiki movement in all languages. My experience as a community leader in a country with 9 official languages has given me a strong understanding of the need to support the growth of Wikipedia in languages other than English. To increase impact the committee needs to support people genuinely committed to the open knowledge movement, a strong track record of volunteerism in the Wiki movement is a good indicator of this. We also need to be clear about the need to support mission aligned partners, both with a proven track record and those who have displayed a strong commitment to the open knowledge cause. --Discott (talk)

BamLifa

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I have been a Wikipedia editor since 2015 and a co-founder and chair of the greatest User Group in Central Africa since 2018. I have been involved with Wikiconvention Francophone, the greatest conference for French-speaking Wikimedians, in the scholarship team (2017, 2018).

As an experienced community leader, I have noticed how the WMF grant teams are failing to properly support people from the Francophony region and how fellow wikimedians from this region feel marginalized by the fund committees. I know that much has been done as I said recently to the WMF CEO at Wikiindaba 2022 in Kigali, Rwanda; but still regional context is not yet addressed.

Given my broad experience in the Francophony and in the Africa Wikimedia movement in general, I apply here in order to help the MEA committee fix most of the issues it faces concerning marginalized communities in Africa. I speak both English and French. My country of residence is DRCongo. BamLifa (talk) 21:22, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

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