Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda

2014-02-10 Thread Florence Devouard
Great ! I forward the information to Erina. Indeed, I saw that these two guys were key points fostering an increase of edits on the Luganda version. Erina should only be back in Uganda in a month, but sharing of information by email could be nice as well. How long are your ambassadors staying

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda

2014-02-10 Thread Jan Ainali
Unfortunatly they will go back to Sweden on Sunday (that part of the project was only one month). However, our local project manager is still left, and he has a IEG grant [1] from WMF to setup a Wikipedia Center in Mbazzi which will continue during the year. They too should probably get in touch

[Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda

2014-02-09 Thread Florence Devouard
Hello everyone I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in Community for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta Muhame. Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her first childhood years in a small village called kilembe and later

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda

2014-02-09 Thread Jan Ainali
That is great news Florence! We have two Wikipedia ambassadors in Uganda right now (they actually had a workshop at the Makerere University yesterday). I will ask them to contact Erina, it might be valuable if they could share their experiences face to face. *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*