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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) 21:29, 20 May 2018 (UTC), delivered on behalf of Bobbyshabangu[reply]

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 Bobbyshabangu 10:57, 20 June 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Hi and politician wikidata

Hi there!

If you're not already part of the local wikidata chapter, it sounds like you might be interested.

I'm working on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_every_politician with mySociety and YaguraStation told me about https://www.meetup.com/Wikimedia-ZA/events/qzqrnpyxnbbc/ in October 2018.

We've created #wikidata on ZATech Slack where you can meet us and share experiences which the local wikidata community might value.

Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbothma (talk • contribs) 11:12, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Cape Town elections

Hi Htonl

From what I can tell from IEC data, there was 4 defections from the NNP to the ID in 2004. So ANC ended up with 104 seats instead of 108. I don't know how to update the map to show this, and was wondering if perhaps you could help me? -- Darthdyas (talk) 22:48, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching that - I have corrected it but you may need to refresh to make sure the new image appears for you. - htonl (talk) 07:20, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the quick response -- Darthdyas (talk) 20:12, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

R215 (South Africa)

Hi, wondering if you could help with this. I was hoping to de-orphan it, but List of regional routes in South Africa doesn't include any routes designated R2XX. I'm not sure if it's deprecated, renamed, or a hoax. Any idea? ♠PMC♠ (talk) 16:23, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Closest to hoax, I think. The RDDA, which is the document that describes route numbers, doesn't show an R215 (or any route R2xx). The SADC Road Traffic Signs Manual states on page 8.6.1 that "At the time of publishing no routes have been allocated numbers in the R200 to R299 [...] groups." Salt Rock and Sheffield Beach are right next to each other on the Dolphin Coast, so you wouldn't expect there to be a numbered route for such a short distance. And I can find no evidence of such a route number on any map of the area. Would you like to nominate it for deletion, or shall I? - htonl (talk) 07:54, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I'll {{G3}} it with a reference to this discussion :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 15:03, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]