[Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship applications

2012-01-16 Thread stephen wanjau
Hi, You can now apply for Wikimania2012 scholarships...see message below. Thank me later and all the best. best, Stephen -- Forwarded message -- From: Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:54 PM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012 now accepting

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Urgent :Chapters Conference Represenative inBerlin

2012-02-04 Thread stephen wanjau
Thank you Anne;)... Your comment is loved by me. best, Stephen. On 2/4/12, Ann Njeri njeria...@gmail.com wrote: I love your Bio Steve, very impressive!!! On Feb 4, 2012 9:26 AM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Nice people, Bio postedherehttp://wikimedia.or.ke

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY

2012-02-07 Thread stephen wanjau
Hey Ednah, We are meeting as from 9am. best, Stephen. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Bureaucrat access

2012-02-08 Thread stephen wanjau
bureaucrats are: Oscar Limoke, Stephen Wanjau, Oliver Stegen (Baba Tabita) and Alex Wafula. If you feel anyone else needs bureaucrat access, let me know (or ask one of the new bureaucrats! :)). However, as Spider-Man's uncle said: With great power comes great responsibility -- so please don't fool

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Internal-l] Congratulations to Wikimedia Kenya!

2012-02-08 Thread stephen wanjau
Sijambo, This in deed is great news. //Stephen. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

[Wikimedia Kenya] BERLIN CONFERENCE

2012-02-08 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello Nice People, I would first like to congratulate me then you who in one way or the other had a contribution to the making of the newest Wikimedia Chapter. I have created the pad below to start populating it with stuff about our chapter events and projects since the previous chapter's

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY

2012-02-09 Thread stephen wanjau
on 0722334955 if anyone needs directions. Or Twitter: @raidarmax David. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:57 PM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, After negotiations with the iHubbers, the consequences are quite dreadful since the venue shall

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY

2012-02-09 Thread stephen wanjau
,Steve your canon will do.[?] On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:32 PM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Nice people, I Wiki-fied our meetup minutes like other Chapters do, Please link you names to your various user pages so that we can get to know each other better via our user pages

[Wikimedia Kenya] WikiWomenCamp

2012-02-13 Thread stephen wanjau
I came across this and I would like to share. click herehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Perspectives/Kenya //Stephen -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Outreach 2012

2012-02-17 Thread stephen wanjau
Thats great news Oscar. I will post the minutes to our home page here http://www.wikimedia.or.ke I would like to suggest that we have some kind of follow ups after our outreach talks and hands on practices at these workshops. This shall be like a form of mentor-ship to newbies who might be

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Photo Walk

2012-02-18 Thread stephen wanjau
? If so, it's fine to pay it. If it really is a bribe, we cannot cooperate with it; supporting corruption is not a legitimate use of our donor funds. A. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Nice people, Asaf, I sought some advice from a local

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk

2012-02-23 Thread stephen wanjau
several groups, I could only accompany one). Hope the photo walk doesn't die on us for Saturday. Oliver (aka BT) -Original Message- From: stephen wanjau [mailto:wanjaus...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 February 2012 14:57 To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk

2012-02-23 Thread stephen wanjau
@Isaac, I would not want to cross paths with the City Council Askaris. The lingo Kanjo is populous in Nairobi. //Stephen. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:49 PM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I appreciate the fact that Oliver has stepped in to salvage the situation

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] First Outreach 2012 to Mombasa

2012-02-26 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello, As we love to got to Mombasa;) We can find some outreach material in the links below. Some might be used at the conference booths since they are real time or as eyecatchers. Truth is in the numbers remember;) 1. Wikimedia counter - http://toolserver.org/~emijrp/wikimediacounter/ 2.

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk

2012-02-26 Thread stephen wanjau
knowledge available to every single fellow inhabitant of our planet, Oliver (aka BT) ** ** -- *From:* stephen wanjau [mailto:wanjaus...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 24 February 2012 20:34 *To:* i...@oliverstegen.net *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia Kenya

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-03-05 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello, Karibu Abbas. The last time I checked Dennis was still working on these topics. I gave him a copy of the New Kenyan syllabus which had Maths, Chemistry, Physics,Biology and Agriculture - that was December last year. So that implies that we do not have the syllabus for Geography,

[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: Register: Learn Wikipedia editing while you sit at home

2012-03-05 Thread stephen wanjau
[image: WordPress] http://uwanja.wordpress.com My latest post:39th Chapter of the Wikimedia Foundationhttps://uwanja.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation/Today we find ourselves today in the midst of an exciting time. Discussions of the precedences th... Read

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-03-06 Thread stephen wanjau
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics#Categories On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:54 AM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, Karibu Abbas. The last time I checked Dennis was still working on these topics. I gave him a copy

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Ihub call for Organized group meetups

2012-03-08 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello, This is great news to our community. Ihub ni yetu;) Best, Stephen. On Mar 8, 2012 11:53 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Fantastic news! A regular venue is a big step forward. Congrats, WMKE! :) A. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Abbas Mahmood

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Introduction.....

2012-03-08 Thread stephen wanjau
Welcome Nelson. Visit our home page at www.wikimedia.or.ke for some more info about our chapter. //Stephen On Mar 9, 2012 9:51 AM, Nelson baras...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I would like to introduce myself to the entire Wikimedia Kenyan Chapter. I have been keen following on the progress of

[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: Meta e-mail from user 06Ivonne

2012-03-15 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello, Below is a forwarded message form Ivonne of Wikimedia Indonesia. //Stephen -- Forwarded message -- From: 06Ivonne ivonne_kristi...@yahoo.co.id Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:54:04 + Subject: Meta e-mail from user 06Ivonne To: Stephenwanjau wanjaus...@gmail.com Hi Stephen,

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] BERLIN CONFERENCE

2012-03-20 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello Folks, FYI, the two delegates to Chapters Meeting were granted the hard-to-get Schengen Visa and they will travel to Berlin on Wednesday the 28th March. Thanks to BT (Oliver) as he played a great part to facilitate the processing of these applications. To that end there is an ether pad (

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] The Elections Programme

2012-03-20 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello See My concerns embedded below the Email. The team in charge of overlooking the election process managed to meet yesterday for the first time. The team is composed of Branton, Cliff and I, and the meet-up was aimed at brainstorming on how the upcoming election will be conducted and to

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] The Elections Programme

2012-03-20 Thread stephen wanjau
as the Interim Treasurer before the week ends so that I can leave things in order while I will be away. Nice job folks. Regards, Stephen. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Ann Njeri njeria...@gmail.com wrote: yep, that's a true observation On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:13 PM, stephen wanjau wanjaus

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] self description

2012-03-23 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello Lisper, It is great to see you here... Visit our homepage www.wikimedia.or.ke to get a glimpse of what we do around here. //Stephen. On 3/23/12, Lisper Mwende lispermwe...@yahoo.com wrote:   A lady who is hardworking, disciplined and ready to know more and meet many new friends also an

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-03-26 Thread stephen wanjau
copies. There is a million of those and they are quite accurate. David. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:02 AM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Nice People, We were adding article links that are covered in the Kenyan school syllabus that were non existent on the SOS version

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Antw.: [Announcement] Wikimedia Kenya's New Board

2012-03-31 Thread stephen wanjau
, It is with great pleasure for me to announce the inaugural Wikimedia Kenya board that comprises of: Alex Wafula Ann Njeri David Mugo Oscar Limoke Stephen Wanjau The Board's got a diverse range of experience -- with folks working in the government sector, internet industry, financial

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-04-17 Thread stephen wanjau
. On 4/7/12, stephen wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hi Folks, I understand that the syllabus compilation was procrastinated to 21st of March 2012 for reasons I don't know. However, I have a concern about this. The 'how-to' of this process is such a cinch and having a separate

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-04-17 Thread stephen wanjau
at 1:59 PM, Grace Kariuki gkariuk...@gmail.com wrote: steve,how much are the chareges? On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, stephen wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello Folks, Hope you are doing great and bracing yourselves for this Saturday's edittathon that shall evolve around

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Foundation Board Seats

2012-04-22 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello, I am interested. I could have added my email but can't open the pad on phone.. //Stephen. On 4/22/12, Alex Wafula xelaw...@gmail.com wrote: 2 sounds great. If interested in discussions over this, please post your contact here [1] and I'll send out the first email Tuesday morning.

[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia UK] Welcome to the world’s first Wikipedia town

2012-05-16 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Am cross posting -- Forwarded message - Thanks to Chris Keating of the UK Chapter for sharing this: http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/05/welcome-to-the-worlds-first-wikipedia-town/ You’ve probably heard the saying, “In theory, Wikipedia shouldn’t work, but in practice it does.” Three

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Reminder: meetup on 26th

2012-05-24 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello Nice People, I hope this finds all of you well. In case you would like to attend and you do not know how to get there...You can talk to me via my cell: 0722 238 165 Hope to see you all there. regards, Stephen. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Ann Njeri ann.nj...@wikimedia.or.kewrote:

[Wikimedia Kenya] Website

2012-05-25 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello Folks, Alex and Abbas have been doing a great job changing the structure of our Wikimedia Kenya website which looks awesome[1] as of now. However there various bits that still remain to be fine tuned like various imports of templates and such stuff. If you might notice a link like

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Reminder: meetup on 26th

2012-05-28 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello Folks, We had a very productive on the 26th with attendance by folks all the way from Egerton University and some new faces in the chapter. The minutes will be posted to our website soon but in the mean time you can follow up herehttp://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmke-meeting-26-05-2012 . I

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenyan Wikipedia Stories

2012-05-29 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello Folks, Also in the meantime someone could kindly do some proofreading herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translatetask=reviewallgroup=page-Donor+policylanguage=sw. It was a special request from the MWF via the translators mailing list Regards, Stephen. On Tue, May

[Wikimedia Kenya] List Title

2012-06-05 Thread stephen wanjau
Hello Folks, Our mailing list title still reads; The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter. IMO, we are already a recognized chapter by the Wikimedia Foundation and that name should change;) My two cents. //Stephen Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer

[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Translators-l] Translations wanted for May 2012 Wikimedia Highlights

2012-06-15 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello! Sorry for cross posting. Translators needed to translate the May 2012 Wikimedia highlights. It is also a nice chance to know the status and progress of the foundation plus how the media wiki translation extensionhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translateworks. In case you

[Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Kenya Blog

2012-06-15 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello nice people! In April 2012 immediately after we Boeing-ed (or is it jet back) from Berlin. We had awesome tweets and re-tweets with some WMKE members about the need to have a Wikimedia Kenya blog. See images at [1] and [2] below. First, I endorse this idea and I hope that way we will have

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Cool Projects

2012-06-16 Thread Stephen Wanjau
or left something hanging, let me know and I'll clarify it. Plus you can check out this category: http://wikimedia.or.ke/Category:Projects cheers, Alex On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Sorry previous link broken, use http

[Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya National Archives and other GLAM projects

2012-06-17 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello Folks! I have been physically following up on the subject of this email (together with Abbas and Alex) for sometime now and it seems the logistics and the speed with which these institutions are planning this are so slow that I feel I cant wait any longer. Those of you who have worked in

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-06-24 Thread Stephen Wanjau
will be visiting Kenya after Wikimania. Regards, Stephen. PS: Dennis, How far have you reached with the Syllabus you were working on? On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello nice people! The Geography, History and CRE addition of non

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Mombasa alert: potential terror attack?

2012-06-26 Thread Stephen Wanjau
to protect their citizens which is their duty anyway. On 6/26/12, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: .It is so unfortunate that the allegations by the US ambassador to Kenya came true. From the Sunday incident 3 people have already succumbed to injury and 30 others still

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] June Meet-Up

2012-06-26 Thread Stephen Wanjau
...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all? I will not be able to make it for the meetup because i have prior commitments on the same day and for which i have been preparing for over a year now, please accept my apology... On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote

[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2011

2012-06-28 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Sorry for cross posting. -- Forwarded message -- From: Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:42 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2011 To: wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all. For all those who had been

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya National Archives and other GLAM projects

2012-07-03 Thread Stephen Wanjau
/2012, alle ore 06:20, Stephen Wanjau ha scritto: Hello Folks! I have been physically following up on the subject of this email (together with Abbas and Alex) for sometime now and it seems the logistics and the speed with which these institutions are planning this are so slow that I feel I

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya National Archives and other GLAM projects

2012-07-03 Thread stephen wanjau
/File:Share_Your_Knowledge_2_How_glamwiki.ogv Il giorno 18/giu/2012, alle ore 06:20, Stephen Wanjau ha scritto: Hello Folks! I have been physically following up on the subject of this email (together with Abbas and Alex) for sometime now and it seems the logistics and the speed with which

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wiki-Loves Monumnets

2012-07-13 Thread Stephen Wanjau
contact me in due course. //Stephen. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Steve, The question is, are we up for the Challenge? WLM??? On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello! Oscar, an Email

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wiki-Loves Monumnets

2012-07-13 Thread Stephen Wanjau
here. PS: WMZA have a very ambitious budget and plan for the WML, abt $60k USD :-) Just to get jealous On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello! Yes we can. Today I had the privilege to attend an expo http://pluggedexpo.com

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wiki-Loves Monumnets

2012-07-14 Thread Stephen Wanjau
and public relations. i can say dat am a foto journalist -- On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 9:35 PM PDT Stephen Wanjau wrote: Hello! Awesome stuff right there. @Mayenge. PS: Caroline, Are you a photo-journalist? //Stephen On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:20 AM

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT MEETUP and WMKE Financials

2012-07-19 Thread Stephen Wanjau
I wonder what questions am not answering on the shared Gdoc with the Board. Probably you should look at the comments in cells that had question marks. If am not wrong, I have answered all of them. Thank you .Stephen. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya News Agency archive

2012-08-02 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Thats tremendous progress Abbas! Some things we can do in return as Wikimedia volunteers: *Perform digital image restorations for free. *DYK's (Did You Knows) are also a good way on Wiki to tell the world of that unique piece of photo we have in Kenya. *Write articles around the media files

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-08-04 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Just a reminder.. Meeting starts in the next hour. //Stephen. On 8/3/12, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello! Emmanuel requested for an online meet - up via free node tomorrow so that we can discuss the way forward with the offline content development. Time is 7pm GMT

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] WMKE Financial Status

2012-10-06 Thread stephen wanjau
] WMKE Financial Status Hi all, As most of you already know, we have had concerns raised over our finances surrounding suspicions of embezzlement of funds by our treasurer. I am sad to confirm these suspicions. Stephen Wanjau, the treasurer has come forward and admitted to the Board

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: Get in touch asap

2013-01-22 Thread stephen wanjau
attention. regards, Stephen. Original Message Subject: Get in touch asap Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:25:03 +0300 From: Elvis Ondieki ondiekiel...@gmail.com ondiekiel...@gmail.com To: stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.com wanjaus...@gmail.com Hi, My editor has given me

[Wikimedia Kenya] Coming out and to birth!

2013-05-01 Thread stephen wanjau
I have kissed ass for more than a year now...I am the most shaded African WikipedianYes I ate the donors money as most allege and so what? I do not wish to take this with me to the grave...hate me or love me now as it makes no difference... I hate all of you. At my tender age my parents