Welcome, welcome, everyone, to Know Before You Go. I'm your host, Jamie Skidokataya, CEO and founder of JSA. Know Before You Go is the show that covers everything attendees should have on their radar from insider talking points to conference logistics before attending that next big event. And today, we are spotlighting none other than Metro Connect USA, taking place February 26th through the 28th, Fort Lauderdale. And the Fort Lauderdale, Marriott Harbor, Florida. And guys, the QR code over my shoulder. If you scan that and add the words JSA 10 as your discount code, you're going to get 10% off that registration. So scan away. All right, let's bring in our speaker, our man of the hour. We are joined today by capacity media's James Netherwood to share some tips on how attendees can really make the most of this year's Metro Connect USA. Hi, Mr. Metro Connect himself. Hey, James. Hi, Jamie. Thank you. Oh, thank you so much for being here. And what a busy time for us to steal your wave. We so appreciate it. And as we were talking even before we broadcasted, this conference is huge, expected to be bigger than ever before, which says quite a bit. Can you give us an overview of the conference? What sets it apart from others in the industry? Absolutely. This is the 23rd Metro Connect now. So it's been going for a long time. It's one of the more established events that we run. And it's just growing so quickly. I was looking before at two years ago, the attendee numbers were just over 1,000. And this year, we're expecting, well, probably over 2 and 1 half thousand this year. And it's become such a core touch point for digital infrastructure executives, investors, and so many more people. It's grown out from that small Metro Fiber event of 23 years ago. And we're seeing new attendance from data centers, fiber to the home providers, wireless operators, and of course, those private equity and investment bank folks that are all over the place at the event now. And just a plug for us before I get back to you is that last year, the event won the Best Overseas Conference over 800 people at the Conference and Events Awards here in London, just to shout out for the team there. Oh, amazing news. Amazing news and so well deserved. I've been watching you guys grow and part of the Metro Connect history, if you will, for over 20 years, too. So I've watched it grown and become just such a hub. People talk about it as kicking off their new year, really. And with that influx of investment bankers, you guys really have something special going on, such an ecosystem now. So I understand, of course, the presence of the venue has had to grow, increase to match this growth of this conference. Can you share any specific areas that attendees should have on their radar or key locations to visit? Give us a new sense of the location. Definitely. So this year, we have full buy out of the whole venue, whereas last year, we were sharing it with another event. And that means we've been able to expand the exhibition and the conference room. So for those who were there last year, the conference room is now down the floor in what's called the Caribbean Ballroom. And it's going to be much larger and I think much nicer for everyone. And the exhibition then is taking up the whole of that grand ballroom up on the first floor. So there'll be more space for meetings, more exhibitors to meet with, more lounges, more meeting rooms, more of everything really. So I think you should really see the difference this year. And then with all these changes, we've spent a lot of time looking at how we're sign posting everything across the event. So there'll be more signage all over the place making it much easier to get around the hotel. And if you head to our website for Metro Connect, you can see the floor plan up on that website for anyone wanting to check it out before you get there. Oh, I love that. It's such a great visual too. I highly recommend that. All right, so I know there's a lot new and improved here. Can you share insights on any of the new features or changes that participants can expect at Metro Connect USA 2024, especially for those guys like JSA and our clients who are returning, coming back from previous years. What's new? Absolutely. So I think the big change from at least my side on the content is that we've moved away from that sort of infrastructure only day at the start of the event. Meaning now that all the sessions on the main stage in that Caribbean ballroom are gonna be open to everyone. And there's a lot more space to match for that. So for anyone wanting to catch those sessions, I recommend getting there day one, bang on time before we kick off and they're open for everyone now. And at the same time, we're creating curated meetups for specific groups like Fiber to the Home, which are gonna enable those sort of candid conversations that really make in-person events that just so important for everyone to be out. So a lot going on for us. Huge, a lot going on. I love those curated meetings. Also, I noticed on your site, speaker lineup is A1 as always. Tell us a little bit about the speaker lineup and what are the key themes that Metro Connect aims to address this year as part of their speaking agenda? Absolutely. So we've got a great group of speakers. I'd just like to thank all of them. We're really ramping up on the preparation at the moment. And some of those discussions we're gonna be having, and they're gonna be really, really great for everyone. We've got the major operators. We've got Zayo on there. We've got Winstream, AT&T. Everyone's on there really from that sort of big carrier group. Then this year, we've got the state broadband offices. We've got leading investors, bankers, big data center operators. You name it almost, and they're on the agenda. As part of that, we've expanded the scope of the agenda. So we're covering those big hot topics like meeting demand from AI, touching on the unprecedented amount of public funding through the BEAD program with a couple of sessions there. I think really the point here is that the agenda at Metro Connect has something for everyone. We've got sessions on fiber financing, automating wholesale processes, applying for that public funding, to getting the data center of the future built. There's really just, yeah, something for everyone. And then with all these expanded focuses, we still have those real staples of Metro Connect. We've got our CEO panel, our M&A panel, a state of the market address. And of course, we've got a big opening keynote from Mark Ganzi that I think is really one of those unmissable things at Metro Connect. I couldn't agree more. Mark Ganzi keynote, yeah, sign us up. Absolutely, AI, BEAD, like tell us everything. I can't wait to attend. How can participants really take full advantage of these networking opportunities at the conference? We're already talking multiple opportunities. How do we take advantage? So throughout the event, we've got sort of networking receptions in the morning and the afternoon. There'll be breakfast on offer in the exhibition hall, which really gives everyone a chance to grab a coffee, a bagel, whatever it might be between sessions and just have a chat. It's always a staple of Metro Connect. We've got the beer and barbecue reception on day one, which I think, given the weather here in London, I'm really looking forward to out in sunny Florida. And then on day two in the evening, we've got a networking reception, which is being sponsored by Bank Street and Winstream. And that's going to be out on the Ocean Terrace, which is absolutely beautiful space. There's a lot to be doing on the networking side this year. Oh, and you know, I just bring in the sun, bring in the barbecue. And thanks also to Bank Street and Winstream. I know they're doing that beautiful Ocean Terrace networking reception as well. Just so incredible. And again, unbelievable networking opportunities, unbelievable brands available and attending. Can you share with us your three tips for getting the most out of Metro Connect USA 2024? Sure. I think we touched on it earlier, but whether it's your first Metro Connect like myself, or you've been going for 20 years and you were there at the first one ever, it's really worth looking at the floor plan. Get a layer of the land before you get on site. I always suggest downloading Swapcard. You can see the attendee list, the agenda. You can plan your meetings before you go. So really to get the most out of it. I suggest getting the app. Finally, I think it's really easy to book back-to-back meetings at these events. But every time I talk to people, they say, oh, I bumped into so-and-so. I've not seen them for years, or we had an impromptu meeting and some really great new business to sort of stumble along. So I think it's really good to sort of block out a bit of time, just to explore, say hi to people, and make the most out of the event. I love that. I always love this question, like, what are your top three ideas? And to reiterate, floor plan, review that, know where you're going, makes total sense. Swapcard at, download that guys. That's critical for a successful event. But yours is beautiful. Make time for the unexpected. I love that. All right, my last question here, before I let you go, I know it's a busy day for you, but what is the best way for attendees to keep up to date on the latest as we lead up to the arrival here at Metro Connect USA? We're packing, we're getting ready, but give us a few tips before we board. Yeah, I think follow us on LinkedIn. I think that's where we're the most active. We've got sort of sessions being promoted, useful information that we're putting out forever on before you get there. Watch out for the service emails from us. They'll have the QR code so that you're ready when you get there so we can print your badge straight away. You can get through and get cracking with Metro Connect. And I think I mentioned it already, but download that Swapcard app. People have probably reached out already trying to have a meeting with you or connecting with you there. So it's really worth getting that out, which makes everything much smoother for you. That's it for me, really. Yeah, I wanted to say app, app, app guys, go ahead and make those meetings. That's really part of the magic behind Metro Connect. You guys serve up all the information ahead of time. It's such a well-organized event. So kudos, kudos to you, James, and your whole capacity media team. Always top notch events that we love and really just helps grow and support our industry in such a beautiful way. So thank you so much. No, thank you, Jamie. It's been great hopping on here with you and such lovely things you say about Metro Connect. So thank you. No, it's really true. For my heart, to yours, it's part of what keeps our industry growing. So thank you. And guys, go ahead and scan that code over our shoulder. 10% off your registration of Metro Connect USA. And to get all the proper details, including a good look at that floor plan, make sure you check out the URL for Metro Connect USA as well. And make sure you're on social, LinkedIn, and sharing all the love. All right, thanks, everyone. I am Jamie Scott-Octaya of JSA. Go ahead and follow JSA on LinkedIn or find out more about us on jsa.net. Thank you for tuning in to know before you go. And as always, my friends, happy networking and see you in Fort Lauderdale.


السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته الصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا ونبينا وحبيبنا وشافيعنا وقائدنا وسيدنا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوحة العارفين اللهم مع اللبنا ما ينفعنا ونفعنا بما علمتنا يا أرحان الرحيمين يا رب العالمين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته سوف نتحدث about the third wife of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم سيدا عائشة بانتو أبي بكريني الصديق رضي الله عنها وارضاها وارضي الله عن والدها وارضا سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم نعرف that after the death of سيدنا سيدة خديجة رضي الله عنها سيدة خولا رضي الله عنها came and asked سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم why you don't get married and then she said you can get married to a virgin and to a married woman whose husband died to a widow so he said who are these and she says the virgin is عائشة بانتو أبي بكر the daughter of your truthful friend and the widow is سودة بانتو زمع so when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said to her go and talk to the to the parents go and mention mention that to them so this this lady went and she talked to she went to سيدة أم رومان was the mother of خديجة أفعائي شرطي الله عنها and she she said said to her رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم has sent to you and you have got a lot of blessings and she said what is it and she says سيدنا محمد is asking for the marriage of عائشة and سيدة أم رومان رضي الله عنها said to her but she was surprised actually and she said to her okay my husband is coming you can talk to him so سيد خملة talked to سيدنا أبو بكر and سيدنا أبو بكر she looked at her and he said how can this happen I am his brother so go to him and ask him that so she went back to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she she said to him this is what's what's happening this is what أبو بكر is saying how can you marry he is your brother and is his daughter so she will be your niece how can you get married to her and he said to her he is my brother and in Islam and his daughter I can be I can marry her so she went back to him and she told him but أبو بكر رضي الله عنه had given a promise to when he asked that his son marries so أبو بكر never broke a promise so what happened أبو بكر رضي الله عنه went to المطعم عدي and المطعم's wife was present so he said to her he said to المطعم what do you think of my daughter and he looked المطعم looked at his mother at his wife and he said to her what do you say so she said she said to أبو بكر maybe if we get our son to marry your daughter then she will make him change his religion and he will be in a new religion so his father the father of the boy المطعم looked at أبو بكر رضي الله عنه and he said you hear what she says so أبو بكر went out he left them and he was released of his promise so أبو بكر رضي الله عنه was told by her mom that someone is coming so I said to محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم came to their house and she was still 7 years old when that when she was mentioned by جبريل عليه السلام to see محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to get married to her so when he went to them she was playing on a swing and her mom called her and then she she came to her mom and her mom water and she wiped her face and then she come to her and she got her to enter into the house and in the house there were men and women and was there so she her mom sent her daughter محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she said those are your family رسول الله this is your family so may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless you bless her and that was it then سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم waited until عشرة الله وانه was nine years old and then he consumed the marriage عشرة الله وانه said on that day the day of her marriage there were no camels slaughtered nothing except for the pot of food that Sa'ad now bada used to send to sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so so so this was the marriage of sayidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to عشرة الله وانه and someone might say why would sayidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم get married to عشرة الله وانه he was about 53 years old she was nine years old so when he died he was 18 years old so but to get married 53 years old to a nine years old so many questions were asked about about this this marriage so why would sayidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم get married to such a young girl as i just mentioned that prophet محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم married before عشرة الله وانه he married خديجة الله وانه she was 15 years older than him and she died at the age of 65 so 25 years that sayidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم lived with خديجة رضي الله وانه and he did not take any other wife with her then sayidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم married صودة رضي الله وانه a woman of his age and when so that marriage same age that's understandable what happened when he got married to عشرة الله وانه at that time at their time it was so normal that a girl would get married at the age of عشرة الله وانه so between 9 and 13 between 9 and 12 that's the norm for them and we know that when sayidina عمر رضي الله وانه when his daughter when her husband died sayidina عمر went to Abu Bakr رضي الله وانه and asked him to marry his daughter Abu Bakr was older than عمر رضي الله وانه so this was the norm that someone older would marry a younger girl and there was no problem with that so when sayidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم got married with this big difference of age that was okay that was normal normal at that time so who was عشرة الله وانه عشرة الله وانه at her at the when she was still so young she was a very smart girl and when she got older then she was the most knowledgeable of all women and sayidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم knew how knowledgeable she was she was the most knowledgeable of all women she was confident she was assertive she was knowledgeable she was eloquent and some narrations say that she was the most knowledgeable of all the wives of sayidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she was so eloquent when she speaks so عربن الزوبي رضي الله وانه he said I heard the speeches of Abu Bakr Omar of man and Ali and none of them was as eloquent as Aisha رضي الله وانه and by the way Aisha was the aunt of sayidina عوروة so she was the most the most knowledgeable in فقه in حديث in inheritance and she excelled everyone else in poetry and medicine so أبو موسى الأشعري says رضي الله وانه when we could not figure something out when there is a problem when there is an issue that would bewilder us that no one can understand that no one can solve so when there is an issue we would go to Aisha رضي الله وانه and of course that was after the death of sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so we would go to Aisha رضي الله وانه and she would clarify everything for us and it is known that she told a lot of the companions of sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم whoever was seeking knowledge would stop by Aisha رضي الله وانه to get the exact knowledge and she narrated 2210 حديث about sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so her narrations gives us access to the life of sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she would explain the life of sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she told us how he slept how he prayed how he fasted how he prayed at night she told us everything about sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to love Fatima used to have deep love for Aisha رضي الله وانه they both had deep connection and he used to have fun with her and we know that she was so young she is sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم would allow her to watch the Abyssinians playing the spears and she would be behind them and she would be watching them and she would enjoy her time also sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم in one of the occasions she was with sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he he used to race with her so he said to her let's race and she she was very thin she was young so when they raced they سبحان الله she was faster than him so she won the race and they were laughing then later she sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said to her let's race and he beat her he won and she said I gained some weight and I am not as fast as I used to be so he said one by one so you beat me one and then now I am beating you sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم as I mentioned he used to have deep love to at his death sickness at the very last days he asked the permissions of all his wives so that he would be at his house and it is known that sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she was taking care of him during these days the last few days and exactly before his death she saw him looking at her she was having a piece of سواق and he looked at the سواق and she immediately understood that he wanted the سواق and she said he wanted and he said yes I wanted so she softened it with her saliva and she gave it to sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and that was the last thing that was in his mouth before his death so she said after sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away she said that was the last thing my saliva got united with his saliva سبحان الله and sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away in his lap she was with him all the time later on she had a dream and she saw three moves fell in her lap then she went to her dad and she said she said the dream to her dad and sayidina أبو بكر she interpreted it that you will get good news so sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was buried in her house which is her room actually and then when her father died he was buried next to sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and later on when sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم before he died he asked permission that he is buried next to them of course she had in mind that that spot would be her grave but when sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم asked her to be buried there she couldn't say no and she knew that this was the interpretation the three moons fell falling in her lap so the three important figures were buried in her house in her room سبحان الله we all know about the incident of the slander which was made by the head of the hypocrites عبد الله ابن أبيني and he intended with this incident to hurt sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so in one of the expeditions in one of the battles she was the wife company sayidina وحمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and it was late when she wanted to use the to relieve herself so she left the army and that was after they won the battle and everything so she left the army and went a little far just to relieve herself at that time the army got ready and they left so when they lifted the when they lifted the special cabin where عايش رضي الله عنها used to sit on the camel it was they did not notice that she was not there she was very light so they left and they went and they did not notice that she was not there so when she came back she realized that they left they already left before before leaving so when she relieved herself and came back she noticed that she lost her necklace so she went back and searched for the necklace during this time the army left so when she came back she did not find the army and she stayed in a place where she would know for sure that as soon as they realized that she was not there with them they would go back so when so she stayed in the same place that they left صفوان was the one person the one companion who used to stay behind the army just to search the place before he goes on before he leaves so that if there is anything they forgot so he would take it and he will bring it to the to the army so he was searching and he saw without talking to her he got the camel he made the camel kneel she went over the camel he led the camel and it was not a far distance when they arrived so now who noticed that the head of the hypocrites ابن أبي سلول الله ابن أبي سلول so he accused that she had an affair with that person that person the news reached صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and it reached her parents she was sick at that time and she asked the permission of صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to go to her parents to be nursed over there and he accepted he was not talking to her صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم stopped talking to her she didn't know what was going on she felt there was something strange but she was sick so she couldn't understand it when صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to come over just to check on her used not to talk to her and after days of that past she heard of what everyone knows because the news spread and she started crying and crying and crying her mom was so sad to see her daughter crying so much so finally صيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم came one day and he couldn't take it anymore so he said to her if you did something bad just repent الله will forgive you and she looked at him and cried more and she said I am not going to repent to a sin that I never did and if I say yes I did then you will believe me if I say no I did not you will not believe me I will do as what يعقوب عليه السلام as what he did when he lost his when he lost his two sons he said حسبي الله ونعم الوكير I depend on Allah سبحانه وتعالى only on Allah so that he will answer and he will prove my innocence so she said as سيدنا يعقوب صبر جميل والله المستحان وعلا ما تصحفون I am going to be patient and I am seeking the help of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to clarify the matter and she was crying and crying and she was asking الله سبحانه وتعالى to to show that she was innocent and suddenly the سيدنا جبير عليه السلام came down to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and it was just a few minutes that الله سبحانه وتعالى gave the glad tidings through جبير عليه السلام that his wife was innocent and immediately سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم after resting it was immediately he said to عائشة رضي الله عنها أبشر يا عائشة فقد أنزل الله برأتك يا عائشة you have the good news that Allah سبحانه وتعالى revealed the ayahs that would indicate that you are innocent and the the ayahs are الله سبحانه وتعالى that he revealed they were in سورة النور when الله سبحانه وتعالى said إسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إن الذين جاءوا بالإفكيع أصبتهم منكم لا تحسبوه شران لكم بل هو خير لكم لكل مريئ منهم مكتسب من الإثب والذي تولا كبراه منهم له عذاب عظيم so Allah الله سبحانه وتعالى said indeed indeed those who came with falsehood are a group among you do not think it's bad for you rather it's good for you for every person amongst them is what he has earned from the sin and he who took up on himself the greater portion for him is a great punishment then Allah سبحانه وتعالى said there should be four witnesses to such accusment لو لجاءوا عليه بأربعة شهداء فإذا لم يأتوا بالشهداء فأولئك عند الله هم الكاذبون and when they could not when they do not produce the witnesses the four witnesses then it is they in the sight of Allah are the liars so Allah سبحانه وتعالى gave gave the glad tidings gave the Bushra to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and to عائشة رضي الله عنها and to her parents and to those who love them that she is innocent so عائشة رضي الله عنها was a very special woman and as I mentioned سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to love her a lot once سيدنا عمر ابن العاص he used to think that سيدنا محمد loves him the most so he went to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he asked him يا رسول الله من أحب الناس إليك oh prophet of Allah who is the most beloved to you and he immediately said عائشة so she was the most loved by سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم among the people who were alive so he said what about from the men he was hoping that he would say his name so he said أبوها her father he said who else he said عمر and then who else and he did not hear his name and so he decided to stop but everyone who knows سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to think that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to love him the most and that was of the good character of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم was a special woman and she excelled in so many ways so the first thing is when we saw how سيدنا جيبريل صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه السلام he told سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to marry Haisha and later on she was given the title السديقة و بنت السديقة the truthful one the daughter of the truthful one and she was very assertive woman very intelligent she was a scholar in different fields and there is one incident that we need to talk about and that was the the war that happened after the death of محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم of course between و عائش رضي الله عنها on one hand and on the other hand of course their army and on the other hand سيدنا علي والمقداد والقاعة and their army on the second hand on the other hand so what happened what is موقعت الجمل what happened during that battle we know that سيدنا علي رضي الله عنها became the caliph in دلحجة in the year 35 هجري اسمان رضي الله عنها so it was not 100% clear for سيدنا علي who killed سيدنا عثمان so he postponed the matter of getting revenge for سيدنا عثمان والزوبير و عائشة they met in مدكة and they talked about this issue about the the murder of سيدنا عثمان and what happened and they mentioned that علي رضي الله عنها did not do anything yet for that so they decided to take an army and to go from مكة to حراق so that they would ask for the killers of عثمان رضي الله عنها so they came to they arrived in البسرة and عثمان بن حليف was the governor of البسرة some people say that سيد عائشة طلحة والزوبير and the army they went against علي رضي الله عنها and they fought سيدنا علي and that was completely wrong because when if they wanted to go against علي رضي الله عنها they would go to مدينة where سيدنا علي was but they went from مكة they went to عراق to بسرة and they did not think that علي رضي الله عنها would oppose that or would prevent them from doing that so when those people who killed عثمان رضي الله عنها knew about them they collected the army and they they fought them and it was the name of that battle was موقعة الجملة الصغرة the battle of the camel the small battle of the camel طلحة والزوبير وعائشة رضي الله عنهم and the army got victory over them and the the governor immediately sent someone to سيدنا علي to tell him of the issue of what's going on so علي رضي الله عنها went from مدينة with an army they went to كوفا and listen to this he went to كوفا he did not go to بسرة he did not go to بسرة where سيد عائشة and the army is so when they got there سيدنا علي رضي الله عنه he sent المقداد والقاقاع رضي الله عنهم he sent them to طلحة andزوبير and he asked them what they want so why are they with an army over there so they said we want the people who we want to get revenge for عثمان رضي الله عنه who passed away so they said they said to them leave this matter علي is going to take care of that the caliphate is going to take care of that so they both agreed the both parties agreed to go back and to leave the issue to سيدنا علي to take care of it the سبقين who were under the leadership of عبد الله بسبق and those are the people who killed عثمان رضي الله عنه so they knew that when طلحة زوبير and عائشة as the first group would agree with المقداد والقاقاع and سيدنا علي on the second group then that will be something bad against them they will be known for sure and they will be punished later on so what they did they decided to have a fitna and a group of them went out at night and they killed some people of the army of عائشة رضي الله عنه سيدنا طلحة سيدنا زوبير and the army they said this is treason we just had an agreement what happened why would they kill us at night so there was a fight they attacked and موقعت الجمد الكبر took place the big camera battle took place between علي رضي الله عنه and his army and عائشة رضي الله عنه and her army زوبير رضي الله عنه and طلحة رضي الله عنه they did not want the fight so they asked that the people stop don't fight and they both retreated they did not fight the زوبير was hit with an arrow and he died طلحة was hit with an arrow and he died and at that time of course they were shouting at people go back we are not here to fight علي رضي الله عنه we are not here to fight علي go back so they got killed while they were urging people to go there to go back then the camel of عائشة رضي الله عنه was hit with an arrow and the camel kneeled down at this moment the brother of عائشة رضي الله عنه was with the army of علي رضي الله عنه and he went and he raised to the camel of عائشة رضي الله عنه so he he just looked at her and he was happy that she was safe at that moment when the camel kneeled down of عائشة رضي الله عنه the mother of the believers the wife of sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم immediately the battle stopped علي رضي الله عنه was so sad for what happened especially when he heard طلحة والزوبير and a lot of companions were killed so the one who killed sayyidina علي sayyidina أزوبير he came to sayyidina علي and he said to him I killed أزوبير and this is his his sword so he looked at him sayyidina علي and he said don't be so happy I heard sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم saying بشر قاتل ابني صفية بالنار give glad tidings for that who kills ابن صفية the son of صفية that he will be in hellfire and of course it was a battle out of control sayyidina علي did not want the battle to happen طلحة والزوبير did not wanted that battle to happen and as a result sayyidina علي prevented that there should there are any captives same as in any battle or any booties in that battle because it was a battle between two groups of Muslims sayyidina علي making sure that sayyidina علي was safe he sent her back to medina to her home with a group of a group of companions taking care of her and until she got into her home and then sayyidina علي whenever i remember that day i would weep i would cry none of the two parties wanted to fight each other and Allah SWT knows how truthful both parties are but those who were against the Muslims those who were against the unities of the Muslims they knew that this should happen so there will be a big problem between the people the companions of sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so these are some points about sayyidina Aisha رضي الله عنها and سبحان الله if we are to say everything about sayyidina Aisha these and weeks and we will not be finished but in these classes it's about 45 minutes class so we will we are just choosing the main points and we are just talking about them and there was a question or a request from one of the sisters online that we wish that to hear more stories about سودة رضي الله عنها the wife of sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم in last class and as I just mentioned we are just saying very very very little about the the wives of sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم just giving the main points about them so عائشة رضي الله عنها was أمة by herself she was a society by herself she was a great person to learn from by herself and learning about her رضي الله عنها about عائشة رضي الله عنها indicates tells us that a woman can have a big role in society she can be a scholar, she can be a speaker she can be a doctor, she can be a teacher and those were the characteristics of عائشة رضي الله عنها she was the most knowledgeable person at her time men used to come to her to ask her the most difficult questions and she would give them the answer and she would explain everything for them so this is what we are going to cover about عائشة رضي الله عنها and Insha'Allah we will be meeting next week with another wife of sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم learning about her learning about her connection and her connection to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and to sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and until them until that time I'll leave you now with a special greeting and special salam to we all send this salam to sayyidina محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله ورحمة الله وبركاته


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Inezor Education. We continue talking about Apollonius problems. Now, the previous two lectures were very important. The first lecture actually talked about how to solve simple Apollonius problems. No, not really supposed to be even called Apollonius. However, they are kind of prerequisites for the real Apollonius problems when the circles are involved. Now, the second lecture was about inversion as a transformation of the points on the plane, which helps to transform circles into lines to help us to resolve these problems. Let me just make a very very brief reminder. The first lecture was about constructing a circle which is either passing through points or is tangential to lines. So, we had four different problems. We had three points and the way how you draw a circle to pass through all these points is to have a segment by sectors. This and this, which is perpendicular to the line which connects these two. And that's why these lines, these segments would be the same. So, that's when three points are. When you have two points and a line, two points and a line, and you have to construct a circle which is tangential to the line and passing through these two points. Now, what I have suggested was, if you remember, there is a theorem about this. Let's say this is P, A, B and this is C, that P A times P B is equal to P C square. So, basically that is a sufficient condition to find the P C. So, if you connect A and B and continue until the intersection at point P with this line, you will find point P and then you calculate P C as P A times P B. And that is, can be done by, for instance, constructing a right triangle with this B and this will be P C. If this is A P and this is P B, then this will be square, P C square will be A P times P B. Now, the third problem was two lines and one point. And two lines and one point. So, what I have suggested was, just construct any circle which is tangential to these two lines and stretch this circle into this. If this is all, this is P prime, let's say, and this is P, then basically O P prime divided by O P is the same as O M prime divided by O M, because these triangles are similar. So, basically knowing O P prime and O P, you can end O M, because this is just a circle which we have chosen. We can find the center. And the third, sorry, the fourth problem was when all three are lines. So, you have three lines here and to inscribe a circle into a triangle, you basically use the angle bisectors. Now, obviously, you can do it externally as well, something like this, when you use these bisectors. All right. So, these are simple problems. Inversion is not involved. There are no circles given only lines and points. Now, then I have introduced the concept of inversion, the most important part of it. Well, after the definition, if you have a point P, this is O, this you find O P prime in such a way that O P times O P prime equals to R square, where R square is the radius of this circle. And what's very important is that if you have some kind of a circle which is passing through the center of inversion, let's say this circle, its image would be straight line perpendicular to diameter of this circle. We have proven that. So, basically, using the inversion, you can convert a circle into a line. Now, obviously, if you have this circle passing through this point, and this point has image somewhere, so the line will pass through this point, right? Or, alternatively, if you have this circle which is, let's say, tangential to this circle, and in another theorem, we have proven that any circle which is not passing through the center will be actually converted, transformed into a circle. Then the result will always be a circle tangential to, in this case, line. So, this circle goes into a line, this circle goes into a circle, but the fact that they are tangential, which means they have only one point in common. Now, if they have only one point in common, then these will have one point in common. You can't avoid that, right? So, that would be tangential ones. Alright, so that's basically the facts, short reminder of what we have learned before. And that's, and the inversion is something which we are going to use in these, well, now relatively simple problems. So, the first problem is, so we'll talk about, we'll talk about points and circles as given to us. And then we have to construct a circle which is tangential to these, or passing through the points. So, we have three elements which needs to be given. So, let's say, the first one is point, point, and, well, and point we have already discussed before when we were talking about points and lines. So, let's just talk about circle, point, point and the circle. So, we have to construct a circle which is passing through two points and is tangential to given circle. Let's say c. So, this is the circle we have to construct. This is the circle which is given and points are also given. Alright. Now, here is what I suggest to do. Let's take this particular point as a center of some kind of a big circle. And what happens if I will transform relative to this circle, this is my inversion circle and this is my center of inversion. So, what happens with this picture? Well, point A, it's a center of inversion, it doesn't participate in anything. Point B would go somewhere here, B prime. Our circle will go into some circle here, whatever the circle is. And what happens with this line? Well, this line in theory will be, since it goes through the center of inversion, it would be a line, a straight line, but it will still go through the point B prime and it will still be tangential to a circle c prime. So, that would be my line somewhere here. So, if I will transform this picture outside of this circle using inversion, point will go to point, circle to circle and line would be an image of this circle which we have to construct. So, what does it mean? It means that if I will transform a point in this circle and we'll be able to draw a tangential line to a circle, then I can transfer everything back and that will be my solution. So, what remains to actually to discuss? Well, number one is how to construct a point which is inverted image of given point and how to construct a circle which is inverted image of a circle. Well, that's simple, actually we were talking many times about this. So, we know that for instance AB times AB prime equals to R square where R is something which I know, that's the radius of this circle, that's my choice how to use, how to choose the R. So, we know AB, we know R and all we have to do is AB prime, right? So, AB divided by R is equal to R divided by AB prime and this is what we have to construct and this is a simple thing, you just have any angle, this is AB and this is R and this is R and then if you have parallel line here and here this would be AB prime from the similarity of these triangles, right? So, all you need to do is to have this segment AB then segment R on both sides actually because it's R and R here and here and then draw a line parallel to this line which is this. So, that's why B star, B prime. This segment is the one which we need. So, that's how you construct a image of the point. Now, how to construct image of a circle? Well, very simply, just go through the diameter, go with the line which connects my point A with the center. So, you have diameter, so you have two points. So, these two points can be separately transformed. This would be into this and this would be into that somewhere. So, you have two points and have a circle as a circle constructed on the diameter and the last but not least, how to construct a tangential line? Well, obviously, we have already discussed this many times but I will repeat. It's good exercise and again very simple one. Okay, so, you have a circle and you have a point and this is a tangential line which needs to be constructed. Well, you know that this is the right angle, right? The radius to the point of tangency makes the right angle with the tangential line. So, which means what you can do is build a circle on AO as a diameter because this is a locus of all points from which segment AO is viewed at angle 90 degree. So, you have two interception points and these are two solutions, obviously. So, this is one tangential line and this is another tangential line. So, that's basically it. So, we had two points in the circle and we have solved this problem using, let me repeat it again.  Well, not everything, just this line, you have to transform. How to transform a circle into a line? That's, I did not really say. So, if you have this, obviously this would be your point which should be transformed back here using the same technique which I was talking before about. So, you know AB prime in this case and you know the radius and you have to find AB. So, that's simple and then on AB as a diameter you just draw a circle and that's the circle which we need and that's the circle which would be the solution of our problem. Okay, now let's go to the next problem. So, we had point, point and circle. Now, let's consider point, circle and circle. It's actually as easy. So, you have a circle, you have to construct the circle which is going through the point A and is tangential to two circles, given circles. Let's say this is C, circle C and this is circle D, point C, point D. So, we need to construct this thing. I suggest to do exactly the same. Let's have a big circle around the whole picture with center A. Now, if A is a center then transform everything outside. So, what will happen? This will be a circle, circle C will go, this is D prime, circle C will go into a circle C prime. So, now what you have to do is, now this, since it goes through a center of inversion, it will be a mutual tangential line. So, we know everything about this except how to construct tangential line to two circles. Again, in some previous lectures we did discuss this problem. It's actually a very easy one. But after we construct this, we just transform everything back and that's a solution. So, let me just stop for five seconds how to construct a line which is tangent to two given circles. Well, let's consider you have this and this and you have to construct this line. Now, this is perpendicular, this is perpendicular parallel to each other. Right? So, let's do it this way. Let's reduce, now if this is lowercase r, this is capital r, let's reduce this circle by lowercase r. Basically, what you have to do is draw a parallel line and this will be a new radius. So, new radius would be r minus r, capital r minus lowercase r. Right? Because this is r, so this is r. So, from capital r, we subtract lowercase. Now, what about this line? Well, since it's parallel to this one, it's perpendicular to this one and obviously, it's a tangential line to this circle. Right? So, how the construction supposed to be working? So, this is an analysis. So, construction is you have these two circles, just reduce one of them by this radius, by the smaller one radius, then from the smaller center draw a tangential line and we know before how to do it. So, now, all we have to do is draw this perpendicular here, parallel to this one here and that's the tangential line for both of them. All right. That's all for points and circles given. Next lecture will be lines and circles and then all of them, like one point, one line and one circle given. So, that will be next lecture. That's it. As you see using the inversion, all these problems are really much simpler. All you have to do is to know how to transform from inside of some circle outside the whole picture, points and circles, whatever is given to you. Well, that's it for today. I suggest you to very thoroughly examine whatever the material, whatever the notes for this lecture are on unizord.com and then just put it aside and try to prove everything just by yourself. And it will be very helpful if you remind yourself all these simple problems like how to construct a tangent to a circle given the point and the circle, how to construct tangent to two circles and some other. For instance, how to divide an angle in two, how to divide a segment in two because all these are very elementary things and you just have to basically know it almost by heart. All right. That's it for today. Thank you very much and good luck.


ission and vision of Wiki Media Foundation what we want to achieve as a community so it's worth kind of like coming up with these campaigns I feel to share more information of what the community is all about and what we're trying to to share to make free accessible knowledge for all to empower people across the world so for the internet access we have a problem with internet access because citizens don't really have enough finances to get accessibility to the internet so hence there's a problem with them being able to participate freely as much as they can so we have identified this as a problem that we have within our community the next point there is rare knowledge of copyright so I've realized that a lot of people would try or they haven't understood what it means contributing things that are authentically maybe created by themselves somebody could share for example we come up with a competition maybe to share images about animals and then somebody would go into the internet and try and maybe screen grab one of those animals that they want or they think the picture is beautiful and they try to upload it to the competition that we're currently running that could be about animals at the time so there's really that kind of lack of knowledge of how people should participate in such competitions especially when they're learning from their friends and they don't come to the event or they just see our posters out there on how they can participate but they don't really follow the steps or guides on how they could participate in the right way so with that being said we need more participation for people to come and learn when we host such events and then there's a really low or should I say we need help with convincing local officials that is partners to help us to try and share what we do as a community to the national scale we need more supporters and people who can help us maybe with the lab to host our events or anything that could be relative to us bringing a community together and then we carry out our trainings it could be even the internet provision or anything that could help us just to bring the community together and host a successful event so there's really unclarity or should I say uncertainties around our community and what we do so it would be very helpful for maybe the partners out there who could help us and understand what we do and give us the platform for us to share with them what we really do and then they could also extend that hand to help us host more events we have another issue that is well this is what I've also been saying we need to create more awareness that is people have to understand what we mean when we say we are a Wikimedia community user group of Botswana what do we stand for, what do we do what is our mission how do we want to drive that narrative or instill the mission of accessible knowledge for all what do we mean by that so we need to really when we say who we are people understand exactly what we do and how they can also participate so that they are really not lost so I think more campaigns to do this and instill that awareness would help and also we have a challenge with retaining participants participants usually by competitions because due to lack of funds we were unable to carry out regular workshops or regular trainings because of maybe lack of funding here and there to host such events to keep the community spirit going on and have people really engage and keep contributing to Wikimedia so retaining participants has really been a challenge for us to keep people in the community for them to volunteer throughout without without having something happening like a competition so it would be really helpful to maybe train and have people understand what the essence of volunteering even on that own free time without maybe even a competition running they can still contribute and know that they are doing it for good well it will be amazing to have that and then my next slide here I'll be sharing the impact we're planning to bring to our community so would like to share to create more articles that is around diversity and inclusion increase the number of editors that we have because a really small community at this time and we are also planning to create more awareness campaigns on Wikimedia projects improve and create articles about our native language because that is one of the well that's our first language here so there's a really small number of articles that is written in our native language so it will be great if we could start having articles a large number of them on there and yes we would also want to have more collaborators partners to partner with when we carry out our events and then I would also like to mention share knowledge about Wikimedia and sister projects across the country we just don't want to incline ourselves to currently operating or carrying out projects within Khabroni if it's just not within Khabroni then we're doing online and it's accessible to everyone but we would really like to carry out remote trainings from time to time maybe in different cities or towns just to include everyone and make them understand what we are all about my next slide will be about lessons that I have learned on building a community so I realized that to build a community you'd have to have it's very important to have regular meetups that could be in person or online with your community members just to keep the teamwork spirit alive it's also very important to have everyone included and work as a team not run as an island type of thing so it's very important to work as a team and include people when you carry out decisions and that makes them feel like they are also part of something it gives them a sense of belonging it's also very important to know your community status as I'm saying we're currently a very small and growing community hence I know how much we can do and how far well how far we can go and how far we cannot go and I also understand should I say the skills or talent of my community members I know who can help me with this or that if I need digital skills there's somebody who I can go to if I need maybe an organizer I know who would be good with that so it's really good to know what your community members are really good at so that you can know where you can help them in places or they can also just initiate well initiate the ideas of them participating to help out when events happen the next point there is initiate and invite community members to join meetings and activities this is the same as well it's not the same as organizing in person or online meetups but it's more of like planning activities they should be involved when we plan activities what they foresee for us how to carry out the activities that we plan for the year it's really important to have the community also have a buy-in or they have that voice to say on what they want to see how they want to see the community run throughout the year so it's really lovely to hear what the ideas would be from here transparency is also a very good point to have when you run a community it gives people the sense of trust it builds honesty amongst each other so that there's always that peace and respect amongst the community and just to let go of egos I would say it's also very important no matter if I'm a trainer or not it's always very important to know that I'm a volunteer also and it builds that kind of spirit of the teamwork spirit that I've been talking about one other point is create rules policies workflows in the community so to avoid things such as harassment or any other very disturbing or bad bad harassment issues from happening it's really good to have some rules and policies like the universal code of conduct that we Hi everyone this is Maria from Wikimedia Deutschland and today I want to tell you a little bit more about partnering up for Wikidata and the Wikimedia movement and especially on Wikidata software development I'm a project manager at Wikimedia Deutschland for a couple of years now and at the moment I'm focusing on projects around Wikidata and Wikibase Wikimedia Deutschland has been around since 2004 and currently we're located in Berlin Germany next to supporting communities like the Wikipedia community or like free knowledge communities in general we are also hoping to improve political and legal frameworks for the free knowledge movement and also are developing software for Wikimedia projects among others we are doing the software development for Wikidata and Wikibase since 2012 and since then like a super vibrant community of volunteers other affiliates movement groups, data enthusiasts has been growing around this product the partnership I want to talk about now has the starting point of our movement strategy which I hope everyone heard about by now our strategy process and our movement strategy that includes among others again for example that we want to invest more in skills and leadership development in the movement or to increase the equity in decision making and what we've been wondering is like what can we do what can we change about the things to breathe life into those strategy recommendations and what we came up with is to create a prototype of collaboration with another community or another movement group and have them enabled to contribute to the software development of Wikidata and Wikibase preferably in a sustainable and scalable way we are able to do this because we have received a grant from the Arcadia Foundation in the last few years we spent the first 12 months of this to focusing on finding a movement partner or movement groups who are willing to commit to such a partnership but also to figure out the whole setup and establishment of this partnership among the organizations to then focus on the actual implementation in the next couple of years and to connect all of this to the bigger ecosystem of Wikidata and Wikibase the kind of stuff we've been doing for the past 12 months was to reach out to the Wikidata community to make it known that we're looking for such partners to then after we've received some interests from movement groups to spend time on getting to know each other getting to know our ideas about the possible projects about our communities we also had to figure out how we want to set up those things what kind of processes we need what kind of rules and documents for documentation and monitoring and also to fulfill the duties from our grant giver the Arcadia Foundation when it was time to make a decision we were faced with the plan that we were setting out to find one partner but have actually decided at this point that we want to partner up with both interested groups that reached out to us even though we're going to do this in different ways and which is ongoing now is we have that kind of knowledge sharing we want to build up capacity for software development and other communities and continue doing this in the next couple of months the kind of things we learned while the first 12 months have now kind of come to an end is having an open call and just like putting your idea out there and make people come to you you will you will get aware of communities and people you haven't worked with in the past one thing we also learned is that there's no one size fits all partnership we kind of figured out the kind of projects and the kings of the partnership as we were getting to know our potential partners which made the kind of setup we have now fit very well I think we should plan in all those knowledge sharing activities because if you don't you just won't have the time and also be aware that not all movement groups are so privileged this is coming from Wikimedia Deutschland which is rather big and has a lot of resources that not all groups and communities can spend that much time on preparing such a partnership and with this I'm happy to have you introduce to our both partners Wikimedia Indonesia Wikimedia Indonesia non-profit organization based in Jakarta Indonesia is indicated to encourage the growth development in the dissemination of knowledge in Indonesia and other languages spoken in Indonesia as one of the local chapters active in the Asia region Wikimedia Indonesia has supported 14 Wikipedia in languages spoken in Indonesia 12 regional based Wikimedia communities spread across the country and also to other Wikimedia project-based communities along with this development there are needs that arise from the communities regarding technical support for Wikimedia projects there are challenges that need to be faced like differences of languages spoken in each community lack of internet access the absence of guidelines especially for newcomers and also the editing method for Wikimedia project so far which tend to vapor the contributors from Europe and North America one of Wikimedia Indonesia visions for the next two years is to increase our technological capacities for our organization and also for the communities in Indonesia in line with this vision we are very excited to work with Wikimedia Deutschland for this collaboration project we are really looking forward for this project because Wikimedia Deutschland has capacities related to the technologies with this opportunity we are very grateful to be able to learn from Wikimedia Deutschland on how to develop open source software that can be beneficial to the Wikimedia movement together with Igbo Wikimedia's user group we will collaborate on Wikidata software collaboration project within the next two years we will build our own software team the software team will be focusing in helping the community to solve their needs and then also to helping under resourced language communities to contribute in flourishing their languages online through lexicographical data and also involving the communities in contributing to lexims on Wikidata there are total four language that we plan to develop lexim in Wikidata namely Indonesian language Minangkabau language Sundanese language and Makassari language through this project we are very eager to learn not just in terms of increasing our technological capacities but also in building a sustainable and scalable software development environment that can be useful to the Wikimedia movement therefore with the software collaboration project we hope that this will emerge as a step for us to strengthen our movement and also for us to be together in freeing the knowledge Hello everyone, my name is Benedix Fudeh from the Igbo Wikimedia user group and the Wikimedia Africa program coordinator with me I have 30 precious who is the co-founder of the Igbo Wikimedia user group who is coordinator for Wikimedia Africa before we start I would like to give us an overview of the Igbo Wikimedia user group Thank you Benedix, hi everyone so the Igbo Wikimedia user group is a group of volunteers seeking to advance the free knowledge sharing mission using various Wikimedia projects and we do this in form of clubs, fun clubs in form of fun clubs and fun clubs are university clubs in tertiary institutions only in secondary schools then we also have hubs these hubs are kind of thematic hubs, kind of thematic clubs in the sense that it could be a group of librarians it could be a group of Wikidata enthusiasts it could be a group of Wikicommons enthusiasts so this is what the Igbo Wikimedia user group is talking about to the Wikimedia Africa program where Benedix is going to be telling us more about the program Hi Benedix Thank you very much Titi for that very brief overview of the working days ago so Wikimedia Africa what is the Wikimedia Africa program all about the Wikimedia Africa program is a program that is designed to help new and inexperienced developers, programmers how to make edits on Wikidata but mentoring Africans on building and maintaining Wikidata tools as well as other Wikimedia tools by pairing them with more experienced Wikidata tool creators and contributors so how do we achieve this how do we do this we do this by having experienced technical Wikimedia's common board on our platform as mentors and we in turn we organize two to three of these online events monthly these events are monthly and the aim of these events is to just reveal the participants or the mentors the opportunity to meet the mentors as well as the mentors the opportunity to meet the mentors next we'll be talking about the collaboration we have with the Wikimedia Deutschland our last 30, do you want to talk about this yeah the collaboration is something I was always proud of so our collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland started this year and Wikimedia Deutschland is collaborating with the Igbo Wikimedia and Suzer Group as well as the Wikimedia Indonesia and for this I'm going to be talking about the collaboration with Igbo Wikimedia and Suzer Group the essence of the collaboration is to enable the Wikimedia Africa program to make greater impact and this collaboration is both in form of a multi-year funding program support and as well as guidance so sometimes we meet to discuss how the program is going we have full-on meetings to discuss the challenges we have and we get advice, suggestions and comments in this regard and we get to improve on the program including various aspects the collaboration has actually been a very great and helpful one so next I'm going to give it back to Benedikt he's going to talk about our achievements so far and this achievement is also based on the collaboration we have through Wikimedia Deutschland hi Benedikt, thank you thank you very much like Dutty said so far we've had a couple of achievements and this is as a result of the collaboration we have with Wikimedia Deutschland we've had four editions four successful editions by editions I mean the four monthly we've had four monthly events that we've organized and in these events we've had three mentors come on board and these three mentors are not just from one particular place countries, the one country on the continent so we've had mentors from Germany from Belgium, from Cameroon who have come on board and these mentors have adopted some of the mentors, 11 to be precise so far over 200 participants as well across these editions have joined us across these various editions we've had and also we've had these participants from five different countries from Nigeria, Cameroon Ghana, Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire and so with these achievements what are we planning to achieve next what are we looking forward to in the future so what we are looking forward to in the future one of the major things we are also looking forward to in the future is to get more experienced software developers more experienced technical writers more experienced programmers come on board to be mentors we are also looking forward to having to develop and maintain at least one community that is inclusive we are not just looking at having mentors and maintenance come from mentorship we are also looking at having a product that will be beneficial to our community to the African community also another thing we are looking forward to is to get more African communities on board like I said earlier on super we've had five five African communities on board we are looking forward to having more on board and then also we are also looking forward to of course funding we are looking forward to access to more funding to keep these these initiatives sustainable we don't want to just have this for one year or two years, we want to have this ongoing so that we can at some point move from Africa to a global initiative and yeah I know you are wondering how can you get involved and so Titi can you tell us how you can get involved Titi so if you are wondering this is beautiful how can I get involved there are various ways you can join us in this program of project first of all you can join us as a mentor you can help us train the community members you can also help us to adopt mentees you can also tell someone to tell someone about the program even though we might from there get more mentors as well or even participants also you can also help us reach out to other mentors or maybe you can tell us how we can reach them and we are happy to reach out to more people who can get involved in the program because from what we are seeing it's going to be something that would bring a whole lot more people and if you feel you can be a mentor you can tell someone else if you feel free to join us as a participant so you can get to our project page to see how you can sign up or you can read more about the mentor Africa project so Titi thank you very much Titi like Titi said you can go maybe if you are still on the side we are not sure if the program is for you just visit our page visit our project page WikiMentor Africa the link to the page which is dropped on the chat also visit if you after visiting it if you are visiting for me I want to reach out we have a telegram group which the link is also dropped there and just in case you want to visit our previous editions you can also so having said all this thank you very much for listening thank you all right hello everyone and a very warm welcome to this session about knowledge equity on this year's Wikimania this session is called knowledge power equity a Wikimedia Deutschland event series on issues of the equitable distribution of power I work here as the head of the team politics and public sector and together with the team we are primarily working on communicating and developing policies that are intended to strengthen the political and legal framework for free knowledge and to communicate them to policymakers to associations to the media and one of the crucial issues when it comes to the future of our movement is the strategic goal of knowledge equity so I'm really happy to be able to present this project and this event series that we came up with here at Wikimedia Deutschland to you and I'm really curious to hear what you think about it your feedback and your approaches to knowledge equity afterwards but let's get started now I will share my presentation with you just a second there it is in the next 15 minutes you will hear about the concept of this event series knowledge power equity you will hear about the topics and the guests that we invited so far we will hear about the media collaboration that we succeeded in winning for this event series and you will also hear a little bit about the intended impact that we try to achieve here for the strategic goal of knowledge equity so let's get started coming back to knowledge equity just for a second as we all know this is one of the fundamentals of the 2030 strategy and the distribution of knowledge is a matter of power and it's also a matter of equity and I think it's really a crucial issue when it comes to the future of our movement so another fundamental question inherent in many aspects of knowledge equity that you are also working on is how can we distribute power more equitably and of course this is not exclusive for the Wikimedia world especially in recent years there have been louder voices in many contexts calling for more equitable distribution of power I'm thinking of the Me Too movement for example which has made unequal power structures more visible and society more sensitive to them and I think it's really important to build on this growing social sensitivity in order to make knowledge equity better known and also to generate understanding and mobilization for it because we will be all more successful if we connect the idea of knowledge equity with existing louder voices and in social discourses around diversity and a lack of representation of different kinds of knowledge in politics, in media and also in Wikipedia of course so the second question was how can we connect to existing discourses on unequal power structures we then came up with the concept for a discussion series to explore these questions further and to discuss them with people working in different fields of knowledge equity so the concept is we are organizing a series of conversations called knowledge power equity in German this is Wissen macht gerechtigkeit and it takes place every two to three months and in a moderated discussion two to three guests are talking about an issue from the spectrum of knowledge equity these discussions are always moderated by Deutschlandfunk and also produced by Deutschlandfunk who we succeeded in winning for a media cooperation Deutschlandfunk is the biggest broadcaster in the German speaking area and they would broadcast the conversations on the radio and afterwards we then have the podcast for our own communication channels and for communicating it further for example also to policy makers so let's come to the topics and guests the topics come from the context the spectrum of knowledge equity and also the fundamental question of how digital public sphere should be shaped and designed to be welcoming and safe for all people and for our pilot episode we had Christian Humburg who is the executive director of media Deutschland and also we could win Dr. Imidia Waak who is a political scientist based in Berlin and in France she's the author of Why We Matter and the founder of the Center for Intersectional Justice which is also based in Berlin so the two of them we're discussing a little bit about how knowledge of domination or dominating knowledge through time, how it is changing through digitization and also through projects like Wikipedia of course our second episode was about disinformation in election campaigns and this was at the time when there was the federal elections here in Germany last year and we were particularly interested this time in the question who is particularly negatively affected by disinformation so we discussed this with Ingrid Brotnich who is a well known journalist based in Austria and an author also and she is an expert for disinformation and we had also a journalist and writer, Yasin Muschalbasch who is working a lot in this field of disinformation and then Professor Martin Emmer communication science and journalism and a founding member of the Weizenbaum Institute which is the German Internet Institute our next episode was about the concept of a post-colonial museum and this is a very timely and very super relevant question for cultural institutions cultural heritage institutions in general and museums in particular for the whole glam sector actually so the question was is there already a post-colonial paradigm shift visible in museums and what post-colonial concepts and what specific examples are there for the cooperation of museums with representatives of so-called societies of origin for this we had Jan Sakizah Bandi who is a curator for colonialism and racism at the Anne Frank education center we also had Christopher Nixon who is a curator for colonial past and post-colonial present at the foundation of historical museums in Hamburg and another curator Kevin Bres who is responsible for the reinvention of the Grasny Museum for Völkerkunde in the city of Leipzig so this was truly a super interesting conversation our next episode and the last one we did so far is called public money public good so this is one of the core demands that we have facing the public sector we think that what is finance primarily or fully with public money must be freely available to all people and the question is how can this be implemented politically and this is also relevant for knowledge equity or it has a huge knowledge equity dimension because the question is how can it be ensured that content produced by the public sector does not only benefit the public sector itself or policymakers but also all people the broader public and all people in general for this question we had the brilliant Lilith Wittmann who is a net political activist specifically on this topic also and she's also a software developer and an IT security expert we also had Max von Rekaiser who is the spokesperson for digital policy for the liberals here in the German Bundestag and then Alexander Hanschuh who is the spokesman for policy issues at the German Association of Towns and Municipalities let's take a look at the next episode which will be broadcast in August so this month actually and this episode will ask do we need a feminist digital policy and the most important question here for me is how can feminist perspectives be made useful for current digital policy challenges such as you know the advances for systematic surveillance or also the fight for digital violence in general and for this episode for this issue we have the deputy chair of the digital digital committee in the Bundestag as well as the founder one of the founders of a fantastic initiative based here in Berlin it's called Superlab and it's an interdisciplinary group of people working on policy recommendations specifically designed for shaping more equitable digital futures so that's what we did so far let's take a look at the intended impact now that we aim to achieve so the question is what are we supposed to achieve through this and can a series of events even explore knowledge equity and maybe even strengthen it and as I said before I think it's really important that we communicate well what we do to the outside world in order to avoid working in silos and also for a long-term impact of our work for the society so I think it's really important that we communicate also the efforts towards knowledge equity in a way that is effective for the public and effective for other initiatives doing similar things and we would like to discuss the possible aspects of knowledge equity with people who already work in different fields that are connected with knowledge equity but who are working on knowledge equity from very different perspectives and to bring them on one table and discuss the things to develop them further especially from a political, from a technological and from a social point of view what are the next topics that we are planning coming up next is the topic of the so-called community capitalism so this is about how we can prevent politics that has a tendency to more and more delegate public responsibilities to volunteer engagement which we can see happening in different sectors and also in the digital volunteer engagement and another topic will be how the knowledge of Omnia and Sintessa can be represented more effectively so this is it I hope you found this interesting thanks so much for your attention I would be happy if you contact me with feedback, if you get back to me if we can get in touch about other formats around knowledge equity and I hope you will have a simple and insightful wikimania see you Hey everyone, so welcome for this session about the Wikipedia in French that has deleted pages for pages for deletion so why, how, what impacts what happened before what led to the decision, how the decision happened and then we are we share link to one case of notability debate about an article in Wikipedia that got not really deleted so let's start right now so who I am so I'm Jean Squire I'm going to take my own slide it will be easier for me to read so I'm Jean Squire I joined Wikipedia in French in 2009 and Wikipedia in France in 2018 I'm also on wikim data and commands Morally I mostly translate from English articles like moon coyote, etc I also have ADHD and autism as per girls so I try to promote accessibility in the projects so it can be visual in learning our process between the editors too so it's not taxing and we don't lose conflicts so I'm also one of the many editors to the main page overall of Wikipedia in French 5 years ago and of course one of the people that contributed to the page for relations reform last year and this year so this is a quite difficult topic I don't know if you can see the image I shared I know you can't it doesn't share well I shared a funny image anyway so I am you will be about to find this slide on the at the end of the session on the session page on the Wikimedia website so let's go directly to how we began and we will start with before the reform the very origin of the procedure and it has been created the 5th October 2002 2002 by Anthair which later became became the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation but later no template it was just text with returns to the line under and just passing with the Anthair K and over there we got 6 major issues raised by the community because it led to a lot of conflicts a lot of grief and it remained in other spaces so we are going to the next section there were a survey helping to shepherd this back to 8 years ago and that concluded that the procedure name was no longer redevent because it was more supposed to be it evolved to notability debate for pages and not something for just for deletions there are speedy deletion process too now and this procedure was used to discuss the merits of categories template and other meta pages. This is more a discussion than a vote and there is an everlasting debate under Wikimedia in French about just voting or studying the merits of the statements of the debates made the comments of course in other wikis it's often the comments the quality but it doesn't work like that for everyone because some people are very strict they are very square in a way to think that it should be votes we say it's supposed to be deleted or not it's also used by default it's used by default as a maintenance of natability banners that are named in French admissibility a vérifier and they have to be checked quite often we have editors creating we got editors creating pages for deletions quite often but they were not really for deletion they were just to be checked for their natability nobody really wanted them to be deleted they were just just a question like there doesn't seem to be enough sources next we also have the templates what they were saying so we had suppression templates that talks about natability and so those have other templates like which is for page kept and it says translated after we propose for natability this page has been kept you can view the no clause and outshift natability sorry it's bad translation also it was not a comment for the for this procedure to cause conflict and resubmit amongst contributors newbies are not where felt very hurt to see their page labeled to be deleted it was something that was very hurtful and it was not very well understood in their guts for newbies it was more interesting because they were often just starting to contribute sometimes they didn't understand very well how Wikipedia works sometimes it could have just be an article moved into their draft space in their own user space so a discussion opens in February the 10th 2021 and is closed back in mid-Generate 2022 and the voting opens soon after we said the voting period for about four weeks ending at midnight at Paris time because most of the contributors are living in France just statistics so the there is a timeline yes it was a very complicated process it started too really they were conflicting with other initiatives like for example I I posted first in the bistro the equivalent of the Village Prep there asking for opinions about ideas for alternate names or the procedure and meanwhile someone else with a lot of enthusiasm shake and just launch the process the discussions for the voting without checking this first it was quite discouraging there were a lot of tags with hide and love periods and activity it was very very dried out there were a lot of topic executions because the topic was just redaming and avoiding very very conflicting propositions for reform of the process itself yes it was over 11 months and it was almost abundant and at the end we just said you know what just just launch the vote let's just set a threshold for voting and let's just launch the vote it was a vote with the black method by the way it was ABUC to chose an order in the preference number with superior or inferior or equal so the goals were to remove the stigma or injunction like nature of the current page for deletion Pacha Suprimi designation and when it's debated without a page it's acceptable or not able or not it's mistranslation for me my bad and the deletion debates can result in the page being retained too there were a lot of options like moving the page to another sister project like the week there were things like just a split or a merge and this procedure was used instead of the regular merger split procedures it could be just a renaming it will be moved I improved a little the page the template for this quite recently by getting inspired by the Wikipedia by the way so we got the results so there were two questions and for the first question there were the Wikipedia page for deletion that will be not titled Wikipedia not ability debate sorry mistranslation with our retracting renaming and the division there was a proposal that was kept in the discussions and also put into the voting pages about whether or not keeping the division for expressions opinions to keep deletion etc like merging and other options and people prefer to keep this while personally while I understand it can be too cluttered with too many comments I think the choice to put the keep and delete options first is rising the debate because it suggests it should be these two options and maybe it could be proven in some way with more user interface tools in the future maybe I don't know and so we had consequences with the case study with an notability issue with the page named macronate or in English the verb to macron and I'm going to try to share this to Michael I'm going to share the link for the chat for so everyone can see this this page and how it's ordered currently and so you can see how it works so I posted the link to telegram or maybe I can paste directly to so how does it work I just try to open feed loop virtual I'm going to just one feed loop tend sorry Michael I posted the link on your telegram maybe you can open in the tabs please it's just a page of the Wikipedia in French so macronate was a verb about something about a world known in the world of Ukraine and it was a world mostly created by the Ukrainians in their own world in their own language there were Emmanuel Macron the French president currently that appeared and said it was very deeply concerned and it was not something about very direct consequence very outcome basically the person is very concerned says is talking a lot, discussing a lot but there is no result at all from this talks and just talking talking and just nothing and actually the page was better suited for the machinery in French and if you screen to there were discussions and there were the opinions named Avis in French and there were some kept and massively massively the delete option was chose for a page that was supposed to be moved to a sister Wiki so this is an interference issue maybe there is an EBIT issue from everyone that just used to post the error to delete and without really preceding the outcome in the delete you have a lot of to transfer to move the page to post it under the wrong section it should be posted under the other issues so it's not really suited it's sorry so what I mean is a lot of people on the page voted for a transfer voted for a deletion but it wasn't really for a deletion it was mostly to move the article to the Wikipedia sorry the dictionary in French so now it was we had the results and it was deleted and I'm not sure whether or not it was it was really kept so yes it's not on the dictionary in French so I'm going to share this with Michael so you can have the link too and so yes so Macron it's a neologism and it can mean to show to be worried about a situation but doing nothing concretely or faking help and it was already present in the French media and it was already kind of transition in French to and it's also a word available in Korean so yes in conclusion it's a process that was the change of the name quite led to a lot of changes in the template it helped a lot to streamline what we mean with the procedure but people don't seem to quite understand how the page of the process to give opinion, to give discussion is working there is a lot of text and the user interface doesn't seem very friendly for this and I think a lot of and I think a lot of things are still complicated and some point of tensions between users still exist but at least one point of tension is solved and I think I remember that some named up the procedures in other language Wikipedia are more about notability and real discussions than votes or to delete pages I think it would be quite very useful for communities that still have the page for deletion name to today to consider for to change their name too for example the Wikipedia in English is it worth it to keep search name isn't it confusing for newbies and maybe helpful in general for any kind of editor to say hey I past I started a page for deletion process for your page but it's just it's not for deletion it's just for checking it's still helpful so I'm finished here so I think we only have a few minutes left so if you have questions for me so please write them down do page still get deleted is it just cosmetic pages still get deleted but the presentation the section where a little change for example I added a lot of changes with an overcontributor that should have the cost speaker with me but couldn't make it unfortunately and we change quite a lot at the starting templates used to initialize the page the notability debates so we made the language simpler I think it's better worded now but it's still I think too chatty it's not very well organized there are not images to lead people to have something clear and easy to read it's not very accessible I think other questions I'm going to check also the etherpad we don't have anything for question for the speaker there question answer tab has nothing so I'm leaving you one minute to write down any possible long question there's a lot of ribbling noise is it better now what is the speaker under our username please GN square I'm going to write it down myself doesn't work speaker of GN square I've got a few compatibility issues if you want to talk with me I'm going to be available in the networking space so we could chat more freely without the time constraint so thank you for everyone thank you for bearing with me despite the issues with the slide and the screen sharing and see you in the networking space bye


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