[Wikimedia Kenya] Coming out and to birth!
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 never knew about this white elephant.They hate me because of this humanitarian movement that I dropped both my feet into... I paid for some of your escapades with your girlfriends using the donors money. I was so naive and effed up. As far as Dubai since local was too mainstream I financed you and some of you and your girlfriends. That is for the inner cycle and for some I have decided to donate the money since you have never appraised the debts till now. I still have the statements till now from equity bank and KCB bank. I have all the records with me.the statements, withdrawals and everything else as shocking as the next line. I hate myself and I still love sharing free knowledge. It is the key to love and live that keeps me going. EFF you and me. Yours faithfully, Stephen ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: Get in touch asap
Done... Interview called off till notice is served. Cheers On Jan 22, 2013 12:38 PM, Kosgei Isaac kipchogekos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve, As Oscar said, I feel that now is not the right time tell him that we will get back to him when we are ready. On 22 January 2013 10:29, Stephen wanjaus...@gmail.com wrote: So no interviews! Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. Stephen. On 01/22/2013 09:17 AM, David Mugo wrote: Oscar, I think you have a point. The website did not crash, the domain was overdue for renewal. I got the money late but I already started the process. David. On Jan 22, 2013 9:15 AM, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: In my opinion we should pass this interview. Now is NOT the ideal time to do a spotlight on WMKE, not with the recent unresolved issues... Just my 2 cents PS: Our website crushed again, 1 week running On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:34 AM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, Do they have someone specific they need to talk to or at least a criteria for the interview? David. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Stephen wanjaus...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks! I hope you are doing well. Sometime last year I mentioned that the Nation Newspaper was interested in running an article about Wikimedia Kenya and what the WMF does in Kenya. The Daily nation is among the top 3 newspapers in Kenya. An editor with the newspaper just sent me an E-mail which I have forwarded below for your 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 permission to feature the Wikimedia Kenya chapter. I request that you be the one to help me get in touch with other members of the team. I need to know of your organisation structure and what you are working on. It's urgent because the deadline for submission is tomorrow (Wednesday). My number is 0729371254. I have misplaced yours and will be glad to have it. Thanks and regards. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- - David Mugo, Adviser to Kenya's VP on Digital Media Technology, CEO Board Chairman, Wikimedia Kenya http://mugo.me Twitter: @raidarmax ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, Dream.Believe.Becomea world of endless opportunities I will open the book. Its pages are blank. I am going to put words on them myself. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is the dawn of every New Day. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing listWikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] WMKE Financial Status
Hello! I hope this finds all of you well. I have sinned against humanity with my recent action of being silent about the standing of the chapter. This is owed to the fact that some members were alleging I do not have the total sum of funds which at this stage I have to admit is the truth!! I have failed everyone who trusted me. I hope to salvage some of that trust and the friendship because it makes me feel bad and sick when I sit and think that someone somewhere is undergoing a rough time as a result of my actions. If anything I would want the world to be a better place for everyone. I had previously took the stance that the funds were intact which was the natural thing anyone would do to maintain their name in the good books.To speak the truth, some of it is intact and in liquid form while another chunk was used by me at my time of need as I was in a very tight spot and am ashamed I made a wrong decision that is haunting me now. This was neither intended nor planned. Chapter activity that requires financing has been getting it well until there was an impasse recently when the per diem issue arose which I cleared by paying the concerned parties. I have lived through a test of my time, done a mistake, learnt my lessons and am now trying to get my life back on track. I am sincerely sorry for putting everyone through this. I have had to learn this the hard way but I hope this is the first step towards resolving the stalemate. More importantly,I hope the lessons drawn shall assist to develop guidelines to ensure such is not repeated anywhere else given such a situation. Things are not working as intended for a mistake that I fully acknowledge is on my part. I still feel I must apologize, not because this is the right thing to do, but because I am sincerely sorry for what happened and I would never wish that to happen again and generally to anyone else. Advice you will share on how to handle this will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely sorry, Stephen. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Oliver Stegen i...@oliverstegen.netwrote: ** ** ** Dear all, ** ** Sad as this episode in the beginning history of WMKE has been, we’re at least one step further now than we were a month ago. Rather than culprit-bashing, I’d rather prefer to see us utilizing this as an opportunity to inspect ourselves and our motives. Let’s recognise that each of us is easily tempted (granted, everyone in different domains) and let’s rectify ourselves where we have selfish motives and don’t contribute to WMKE for the common good. We have already been told that “it will be Stephen's responsibility to return the amount”. Let the remainder of the board decide on a time-frame for that. Only if Steve does not fulfill his responsibility, can next steps be called for but certainly not just a couple of days after the initial announcement of what has happened. Don’t fall into the trap of revenge and escalation but rather concentrate on what is needful now to keep WMKE moving towards our common goal of the sum of human knowledge being available to every one of our fellow citizens of this planet. ** ** Grace and peace, Oliver (aka BT) ** ** -- *From:* Kosgei Isaac [mailto:kips8505...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 05 October 2012 09:19 *To:* **The discussion list for the Wikimedia Kenya chapter.** *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] WMKE Financial Status ** ** Hi, Abbas, I agree with you on this. It is a shame that after all the Mess at Wikimedia Kenya, Steve has not issued an apology on this. In my opinion I think WMKE should take action because embezzlement of chapter funds is a crime that should not go unpunished. I have copied Steve on this thread and I stress that action should be taken. On 5 October 2012 09:00, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, ** ** (I've cc-ed Steve, just to make sure he gets this message: I'm not sure whether he's still subscribed to this list). ** ** Steve: After keeping up with this whole charade for months now, and being the primary cause of this mess that we’re Wikimedia Kenya is in, the least that you could do is issue a public apology for your heinous actions. ** ** Sincerely Abbas Mahmood -- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:10:09 +0300 From: xelaw...@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] 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 that he has used part of the funds for personal non-chapter expenses amounting to approximately USD. 800 and resigned from the Board effective immediately. We will now move to wire back
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum
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 (900pm Local time) Go to: webchat.freenode.net Channel: #kiwix regards Stephen On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.kewrote: Hello Folks! In pursuant of the subject of this thread, I have been exchanging Emails with Emmanuel who will be assisting us to compile a new ZIM based on list at [1]. What I have garnered so far is that we overlooked the technicalities surrounding the addition and removal of articles from an existent ZIM file. His request is to have a list of articles that we want in a new ZIM rather than a revision of the UK based ZIM. Read his reply below though I think his mail was not under cc-by-sa ;) I think what you want to do is not so simple for many technical reasons. For example, I assume I will have to re-render all articles (old and new), otherwise we won't have all links between old and new article working. If I do that, the indexes links to the articles won't work anymore... I do not have the same naming nomenclature probably than the UK team. And that brings me to the question. What next? 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics ?stephen On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Kosgei Isaac kipchogekos...@gmail.comwrote: I am definately attending presentation. Good work Oscar. On Jul 3, 2012 11:38 AM, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: Great, And I have a presso at Wikimania about Offline Wikipedia on Saturday 1. Itinerary: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule#Saturday.2C_July_14(last one on *Research, Analysis, and Education IV)* * * 2. My Submission: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Taking_Offline_Wikipedia_to_Schools On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:51 AM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Asaf, We are just about done, hopefully by end if this week it is finalized. We have also started communication with the Kenya ICT board and other government bodies on distribution but we are still trying to create a workable roadmap on the same. David. On Jul 3, 2012 6:16 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Are we done? Are we waiting on additional topics (by Dennis?)? If/when the list is completely done, we'll proceed with creating an updated ZIM file, and then we can think about ways to distribute the Kenyan Offline Wikipedia. Asaf On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello! From my action points here [1] on our May meet-up regarding the compilation of the Kenyan curriculum, I just finished working on the last subject which is Agriculture. Approximately there are about 600 suggested additions of topics at [2]. Next steps? //Stephen. 1. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmke-meeting-26-05-2012 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello! I will send the school the latest release of Kiwix (which is version 0.9 RC1). BTW,am informed that it will be released today. It has some new nice feats that I bet they will find useful some plus bug fixes. To mention just but a few; - Has a new theme that a user can switch to called ''Evolution'' - Html5 Video support - Indexing improvement..so much more To view the change log go to [1] and you are also welcome to test the new version that can be downloaded here [2] Cheers, //Stephen 1. http://changelog.kiwix.org 2. http://download.kiwix.org/bin/nightly/latest/ On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Branton Obwari bruceobw...@gmail.com wrote: indeed its encouraging to note that we having positive feedback from the WFS ,now i have encountered three cases in Western emanating from Kakamega pilot ,managed to reinstall the same having formatted their PCs , For the Mombasa one because of the logistical matrix involved i explored possibility of sending the DVD via dropbox n other large file sending methods but she could not understand how to go about that . My Question:Now that we are in the process of updating our Kiwix is it still prudent to continue re installing that one ? , regards bruce. On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello Nice people, It is really reassuring when you receive that phone call from someone with thirst for free knowledge which is the main mission of Wikimedia. One teacher from a school that benefited from the Wikipedia for Schools pilot that was accomplished in Mombasa, Kenya, gave a call to Bruce (Member of WMKE
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya News Agency archive
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 /photos *Almost certain(since I can't speak on behalf) that the Foundation shall put up a blog entry highlighting the donations. *And the recent punchline by the US Archivist ,David Ferriero; : If Wikipedia is good enough for the Archivist of the United States, maybe it should be good enough for you. Twende mbele. //Stephen. On 8/2/12, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Sorry, the earlier report had some minor corrections. Below is a rectified version. Thanks,Abbas. From: abbas...@hotmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 09:33:48 + Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya News Agency archive Report: Digitization of the Kenya News Agency Archive Prepared by: Abbas MahmoodPrepared for: Wikimedia KenyaDate: August 2, 2012Background Context I was invited to join a digitization working group created by the Kenya News Agency the Kenya ICT Board that was aimed at laying a strategy for the digitization of KNA's content. Last week, the working group had our first meeting, and my main goals were to 1) talk about non-commercial use of content, 2) use the Aljazeera Creative Commons Repository as a case study, and 3) learn from other stakeholders that were involved. KNA has a repository of (mainly) photos (6,000+) related to Kenya’s history and culture dating back to the pre-colonial era. But due to budgetary constraints, the photos are stored in non-ideal conditions and their risk of damage or deterioration is therefore high. Moreover, their content is currently underutilised due the difficulty in retrieving the photos and lack of public awareness. The working group has around 20 members with folks coming from different backgrounds: studio producers, film makers, Kenya National Archives staff, AMREF Library staff, Bank of Africa staff, Creative Commons staff, freelance photojournalists, Ministry of Information Communication staff, Kenya ICT Board staff and myself. Summary It was agreed that one of the potential customers of this project will be Wikipedia; and that some of the content will be donated to Wikimedia under a free licence. (Note that the digitized repository will be used for commercial purposes, but we’ll get a small content donation for purposes of publicity and awareness). Also, some of the photos that KNA has are caption-less or lack the relevant metadata. It was suggested that we(the working group) explore the use of online collaboration (such as wikis or social media) to engage with the public and inquire about photos which don’t have known descriptions. We therefore expect citizen engagement to help us in identifying some of the photos. [We discussed lots of other issues which I have intentionally omitted since 1) the final report is not out yet; and 2) it’s not relevant to you guys.] Conclusion We are now creating a proposed roadmap on the way forward which will be presented, next week, to the Permanent Secretary of Information Communication, Dr. Bitange Ndemo, for final approval before we proceed with this project. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] URGENT MEETUP and WMKE Financials
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: GOOD,the whole board has confirmed attendance and so the meeting is up. BIG AGENDA is Financials and questions. Via my Xperia On Jul 19, 2012 3:29 PM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I will attend the meeting by skype. Means I have to wake up really early, but that is alright. There is a need to separate any current state with finances and the board. David. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Ann Njeri njeria...@gmail.com wrote: I suggest we just meet and ask all the questions we have then. I propose we don't discuss the matter further since nobody seems to be addressing the financial questions that are being posed. Meanwhile Steve can prepare himself by getting all the documents requested, hopefully he can make some copies of the statements so that we can evaluate them on Saturday. Even better if he can send the statements to our inbox( those who requested) so that we can have questions ready when we meet. see you then On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Grace Kariuki gkariuk...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Team, abbass might not come,Oliver is not coming,David isnt in the country-who exactly will be the signatories of the new account?coz i am thinking it should be the treasurer(who first needs to clarify on the issues currently),the chairman and a 3rd party whom we can trust well enuf(Oliver). On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.comwrote: Oscar, Personally, I don't need a meeting to get hold of the financial statements or digest them. Financial statements and reports can be emailed to members and they can read them at the (dis)comfort of their homes. I need a meeting to get justifications, answers, and accountability -- for I have failed to get answers and accountability via email. If this upcoming meeting wouldn't be a QA, then count me out. Thanks, Abbas. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- - David Mugo, Adviser to Kenya's VP on Digital Media Technology, CEO Board Chairman, Wikimedia Kenya http://mugo.me Twitter: @raidarmax ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! All our projects. www.wikimedia.org Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wiki-Loves Monumnets
Hello! Welcome aboard Caroline :) Just a pointer to an area that might interest you and other students in your line of study would be, see [1] below. You should also consider reading about the upcoming Wikiloves Monuments photography competition at [2] below. If I may ask, I would really like to hear of how the event at Mai Mahiu went, or rather what it involved. Also see the Wikimedia media files repository at [3]. regards, Stephen. 1. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 3. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Caroline Osano osano.carol...@yahoo.comwrote: hi oscar i would like to help as much as possible and i would talk with some of my lecturers to help and some of the production company i know of. AM frm one photojournalism events in maimahiu and naivasha. talk laters -- On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 8:50 AM PDT Limoke Oscar wrote: Hi Caroline, Good to see you volunteer there. From journalist point of views, could you advise us on the viability of the project? Could you also like help /hook us with some Photo and Film Journalist that you know (lecturers perhaps that would sit on the jury for judging the photos? Otherwise thanks once again On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Caroline Osano osano.carol...@yahoo.com wrote: hi @wanjau i am a journalist student and am majoring in film producions 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, Caroline Osano osano.carol...@yahoo.comwrote: I would Like to be amongst the journalist and camera person. I have nice work so far. -- On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:57 PM PDT Limoke Oscar wrote: Hi Team, That would be awesome. So the Plan Lodewijk and I talked is like this( Not exactly , but my thoughts and suggestions added) 1. We hire a travel van with a tour guide 2. we get interested tourists and journalists to sign up to be part of the Guided Museums and Monuments tour of Nairobi 3. We make them take photos with the tour guide explaining all the symbolism and significance of the Monuments. We could make a video of the same tour (am working with some other external folks to finance this) 4. they agree either to submit or surrender some of their best or all photos of the monuments under CC-BY-SA licence or to us WMKE which wil get them into the Wiki Loves Monuments Competition to stand a chance to win some cool prizes that we need to work on, We could try get some external folks onboard too (Samsung, Safaricom, etc) 5. kabom, WML done with all the Nairobi Monuments with their articles and a cool video too of all the monuments :-) So Once again, am calling on anyone who is interested in this simple plan to volunteer in some way to sign up 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/ at the Sarit Centre in Nairobi Kenya that drew exhibitors from the Kenyan IT industry, Film industry,Universities etc. The most interesting and Wikimedian thing about the event is that I attended and I talked to several filming and media houses about the Wiki Loves Monuments plus possibilities of having their journalists involved or even contributing images that they own. Particularly, I spoke to filmbiz Africa, NTV and the Kenya Film Commission. They were very interested about Wikimedia and hopefully they would 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 barnster for that :-) Yes Alex and I got the monuments list which has 300+ entries. These entries are of all sites and monuments in Kenya; some in Lamu, Eldoret, Kericho, Kisumu etc. The ones in the proximity of Nairobi city are about 100. I started compiling the list on Wikipedia [1] and it is a Work in Progress as always is at Wikipedia. I only have one source of reliable information which is the list I personally acquired from
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wiki-Loves Monumnets
Hello! Yes we can. Today I had the privilege to attend an expo http://pluggedexpo.com/ at the Sarit Centre in Nairobi, Kenya that drew exhibitors from the Kenyan IT industry, Film industry,Universities etc. The Wikimedian thing about the event is that I attended and talked to several filming and media houses about the Wiki Loves Monuments plus possibilities of having their journalists involved or even contributing images that they already own. Particularly, I spoke to filmbiz Africa, NTV and the Kenya Film Commission. They were very interested about Wikimedia and hopefully they would 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 barnster for that :-) Yes Alex and I got the monuments list which has 300+ entries. These entries are of all sites and monuments in Kenya; some in Lamu, Eldoret, Kericho, Kisumu etc. The ones in the proximity of Nairobi city are about 100. I started compiling the list on Wikipedia [1] and it is a Work in Progress as always is at Wikipedia. I only have one source of reliable information which is the list I personally acquired from National Museums of Kenya and that possibly explains why I haven't completed/expanded that list!!! //Stephen 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sites_and_monuments_in_Kenya On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: Steve/Alex Today I had an intresting Chat With Lodewijik on the above and we quite come up with interesting ways to work and participate in the global Wiki Loves Monuments. I have a few bright ideas. Let me know where and how far we went with the Kenya Monuments lits? All, Any member keen on supporting the same? please sign up here. -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, *point me to the destiny,and I will curve my own path to it * ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! All our projects. www.wikimedia.org Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, *point me to the destiny,and I will curve my own path to it * ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! All our projects. www.wikimedia.org Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wiki-Loves Monumnets
Hello! Awesome stuff right there. @Mayenge. PS: Caroline, Are you a photo-journalist? //Stephen On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Caroline Osano osano.carol...@yahoo.comwrote: I would Like to be amongst the journalist and camera person. I have nice work so far. -- On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 1:57 PM PDT Limoke Oscar wrote: Hi Team, That would be awesome. So the Plan Lodewijk and I talked is like this( Not exactly , but my thoughts and suggestions added) 1. We hire a travel van with a tour guide 2. we get interested tourists and journalists to sign up to be part of the Guided Museums and Monuments tour of Nairobi 3. We make them take photos with the tour guide explaining all the symbolism and significance of the Monuments. We could make a video of the same tour (am working with some other external folks to finance this) 4. they agree either to submit or surrender some of their best or all photos of the monuments under CC-BY-SA licence or to us WMKE which wil get them into the Wiki Loves Monuments Competition to stand a chance to win some cool prizes that we need to work on, We could try get some external folks onboard too (Samsung, Safaricom, etc) 5. kabom, WML done with all the Nairobi Monuments with their articles and a cool video too of all the monuments :-) So Once again, am calling on anyone who is interested in this simple plan to volunteer in some way to sign up 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/ at the Sarit Centre in Nairobi Kenya that drew exhibitors from the Kenyan IT industry, Film industry,Universities etc. The most interesting and Wikimedian thing about the event is that I attended and I talked to several filming and media houses about the Wiki Loves Monuments plus possibilities of having their journalists involved or even contributing images that they own. Particularly, I spoke to filmbiz Africa, NTV and the Kenya Film Commission. They were very interested about Wikimedia and hopefully they would 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 barnster for that :-) Yes Alex and I got the monuments list which has 300+ entries. These entries are of all sites and monuments in Kenya; some in Lamu, Eldoret, Kericho, Kisumu etc. The ones in the proximity of Nairobi city are about 100. I started compiling the list on Wikipedia [1] and it is a Work in Progress as always is at Wikipedia. I only have one source of reliable information which is the list I personally acquired from National Museums of Kenya and that possibly explains why I haven't completed/expanded that list!!! //Stephen 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sites_and_monuments_in_Kenya On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: Steve/Alex Today I had an intresting Chat With Lodewijik on the above and we quite come up with interesting ways to work and participate in the global Wiki Loves Monuments. I have a few bright ideas. Let me know where and how far we went with the Kenya Monuments lits? All, Any member keen on supporting the same? please sign up here. -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, *point me to the destiny,and I will curve my own path to it * ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! All our projects. www.wikimedia.org Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, *point me to the destiny,and I will curve my own path to it * ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya. Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! All our projects. www.wikimedia.org Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya National Archives and other GLAM projects
Hello Wikimedians! As the talks and discussions for partnerships fair on, we also need to be preparing in the background some tools that will be handy during the collaborations with the institutions in question. Such tools include but not limited to; Wikimedia commons KE licence templates, Customized barnster awards for members who contribute to WP:KENYA etc. From my English understanding of the Kenya copyrights act , (since I ain't no lawyer: ) I understand that the copyright act of Kenya has some special provisions for local works of art and photography. You can get a copy of the copyright act at [1]. Please Note: Am not a lawyer and I have no legal background locally and internationally and thereforeany advise that I give should not be taken as any form of legal advise. Have a good day. regards //Stephen 1. http://www.copyright.go.ke/rough/copyright_act.pdf On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Iolanda Pensa iola...@pensa.it wrote: dear all to involve institutions I think a good strategy is - as Stephen suggests - to start. Below some hints related to my experience with GLAMs within Share Your Knowledge and WikiAfrica projects. all the best iolanda 1. if it can be useful we just made two short videos about GLAMs, Creative Commons and Wikipedia (in English, the voice was recorded in south africa by the Africa Centre and one of them is the voice of Francis Awinda - wikipedian in residence at the Africa Centre from Kenya). * Share Your Knowledge WHY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPWc18LswRM * Share Your Knowledge HOW - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpYmtRmPdUc you find the videos also on Wikimedia Commons [1] 2. it can be productive to focus on specific contents. for example you can ask a publisher to release with the open license cc by-sa only the biography of their authors and their book description; for an archive the story of the institutions (often already on their website); for an NGOs some of their promotional publications. those are contents institutions wish to share and they have less troubles in sharing. once they get started is easier to get more because they see how their contents are used. 3. Public archives and museums are often the most difficult institutions to involve in contributing to Wikipedia because - also if they understand - they do not know who can take the decision. Often they also require a formal agreement (which makes the collaboration even longer). it can be useful to target also NGOs, foundations and other private institutions, to get started and to be able to then tell the public sector hey, THEY are already doing it. [1] On Wikimedia Commons - Share Your Knowledge video 1 WHY (with final link to glamwiki.org) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Share_Your_Knowledge_1_Why_glamwiki.ogv On Wikimedia Commons - Share Your Knowledge video 2 HOW (with final link to glamwiki.org) http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 these institutions are planning this are so slow that I feel I cant wait any longer. Those of you who have worked in the Kenyan government or for the Kenyan government definitely understand my concerns regarding the periods that they would take to decide on such a simple thing on what to do - probably call an AGM of the stakeholders. In most of the cases, these guys do not understand the online stuff or even how the internet works let alone Wikipedia (which is our work anyway). At the end they will come to appreciate that it is a good thing - which it is always is.There was a time when we visited the Kenya Railways museum and the curator there was always confusing their institutional website with Wikipedia. He thought Wikipedians job is to improve organizational websites! we clarified and made it clear about this and on the next meeting he was at it again! On our meeting with another directorate of the National Museums of Kenya, he asked whether he could find Wikipedia on Google search. the exact conversation was as below. *Alex*: Hello, My name is Alex and am here with my colleague Steve and we work at Wikipedia. Wikipedia is ...blah blah blah *Museum directorate*: Do you mean if I search Wikipedia on Google I will find it? (Was just hilarious:) Personally, I have not spoken to Kenya Archives about GLAM (though Abbas did). But I think we should just go ahead and organize editathons at this premises and this is why. On Sunday 17th 2012 I was to meet with a friend in town who was running late and so I decided to part with 50 Kenyan shillings ($0.5) and enter the premise (Kenya National Archives) just to see what it holds. Plus I did not want to stand along the streets or sit on the benches due
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya National Archives and other GLAM projects
Hello! Yes, *right to access* is enshrined in the Kenyan constitution. What of how you use the material/information that you gained access to? For instance, photographs of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta while he was in young etc. Yes we can access the photograph but are we allowed to use it in any way we wish (*freely*) and for that matter upload it to commons where we will no longer have control of what and where it will be used for illustrations or any other purpose. IMO, We need to know about copyright expiry of some of these works according to the laws of Kenya, and the authors desired ways of attribution if any to ensure we do not step on anyone’s toes. I would be interested to know whether there is a clause or chapter in our constitution that addresses the issue of intellectual property since it is the supreme law of Kenya. PS: Anyone with a soft copy can as well forward the same. //Stephen On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: I usually use the Kenyan Constitution (Article 35 in the Bill of Rights) to argue my standpoint: ...every citizen has the right to access to information held by the state or any information that is held by another person and that is required for the exercise or protection of any right or fundamental freedom. --Abbas. -- From: stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 09:46:49 +0300 To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya National Archives and other GLAM projects Hello Wikimedians! As the talks and discussions for partnerships fair on, we also need to be preparing in the background some tools that will be handy during the collaborations with the institutions in question. Such tools include but not limited to; Wikimedia commons KE licence templates, Customized barnster awards for members who contribute to WP:KENYA etc. From my English understanding of the Kenya copyrights act , (since I ain't no lawyer: ) I understand that the copyright act of Kenya has some special provisions for local works of art and photography. You can get a copy of the copyright act at [1]. Please Note: Am not a lawyer and I have no legal background locally and internationally and thereforeany advise that I give should not be taken as any form of legal advise. Have a good day. regards //Stephen 1. http://www.copyright.go.ke/rough/copyright_act.pdf On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Iolanda Pensa iola...@pensa.it wrote: dear all to involve institutions I think a good strategy is - as Stephen suggests - to start. Below some hints related to my experience with GLAMs within Share Your Knowledge and WikiAfrica projects. all the best iolanda 1. if it can be useful we just made two short videos about GLAMs, Creative Commons and Wikipedia (in English, the voice was recorded in south africa by the Africa Centre and one of them is the voice of Francis Awinda - wikipedian in residence at the Africa Centre from Kenya). * Share Your Knowledge WHY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPWc18LswRM * Share Your Knowledge HOW - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpYmtRmPdUc you find the videos also on Wikimedia Commons [1] 2. it can be productive to focus on specific contents. for example you can ask a publisher to release with the open license cc by-sa only the biography of their authors and their book description; for an archive the story of the institutions (often already on their website); for an NGOs some of their promotional publications. those are contents institutions wish to share and they have less troubles in sharing. once they get started is easier to get more because they see how their contents are used. 3. Public archives and museums are often the most difficult institutions to involve in contributing to Wikipedia because - also if they understand - they do not know who can take the decision. Often they also require a formal agreement (which makes the collaboration even longer). it can be useful to target also NGOs, foundations and other private institutions, to get started and to be able to then tell the public sector hey, THEY are already doing it. [1] On Wikimedia Commons - Share Your Knowledge video 1 WHY (with final link to glamwiki.org) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Share_Your_Knowledge_1_Why_glamwiki.ogv On Wikimedia Commons - Share Your Knowledge video 2 HOW (with final link to glamwiki.org) http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 these institutions are planning this are so slow that I feel I cant wait any longer. Those of you who have worked in the Kenyan government or for the Kenyan government definitely understand my concerns
[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2011
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 curious about Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2012, the results have been declared: 1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2011/Results 2. Winning file of the yearhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Bondhus_Norway_2862.jpg Wishing to see too many Images relating to India contesting next for the next year :) -- Thanks and regards, (User:Karthikndr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr) *Karthik Nadar.* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Mombasa alert: potential terror attack?
Hello Folks! I started an article about the blasts herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasts_in_Nairobion May 29, 2012 but I had been covering Nairobi only. Other Wikipedians have raised concerns on the discussion page of the article that it should cover all the bomb/grenade attacks in Kenya. View the discussion page herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Blasts_in_Nairobi I agree that we should write articles of recent events that meet GNGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gng#General_notability_guidelinesince it is easier to find references online since they are still 'fresh'. I am paranoid about staying or going around town nowadays yet am a local citizen. Maybe it is probably because the Moi Avenue blast happened barely before we left town with Alex (a Kenyan Wikimedian) after our meeting with Kenya Railways museum guys. I wonder what the case would be if an explosion goes of and I was in a foreign country! regards, Stephen On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Grace Kariuki gkariuk...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, the topic of discussion is quite sensitive and very subjective and probably not the right forum to discuss it,however thanks steve and Branton for the alert,we cannot ignore security issues baring in mind we have kenya wikimedian brothers like Abbas n others who reside in Mombasa. this is a good topic for editing tho. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Kosgei Isaac kipchogekos...@gmail.comwrote: I dont think this is the right forum to discuss such an issue. That is my opinion. On 26/06/2012, Branton Obwari bruceobw...@gmail.com wrote: Steve ,thats glimpse into our foreign policy , believe me if you are paid to paint a good picture of your country you would do that well , unless you wanna hurt the Economy of your beloved country.During the Sept 11th thing ,the Washington govn were well aware of possibility of attack ,but they wouldn't say anything to that effect ,Me thinks its our security apparatus at the dock ,after receiving 'intelligent' reports from a 'a friendly' state ,America ,its was upon them to act 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 hospitalized 4 of whom are in ICU. It is saddening and shocking yet some top government officials rebuked these claim saying the allegations by the ambassador were an act of economic sabotage to scare away tourists. //Stephen On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Kasia, you've already seen this; but for the others, distressing news from Mombasa: https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=12587 Be well and safe, SJ ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Isaac K. Kosgei. Bachelor of Agribusiness Management +254727553981 SkypeProfile: Kipsizoo http://ke.linkedin.com/in/kipsizoo Twitter: @kipsizoo Blogs: www.kipsizoo.blogspot.com http://www.kipsizoo.blogspot.com/%20 Agribusiness Blog http://www.kipsizoo.wordpress.com/ My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world - Faye Wattleton ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] June Meet-Up
Hi Folks, Meeting space - *Check* Meeting time - *Check..* What remains? I have been compiling a list of articles here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stephenwanjau#To_Do.2FPossible_future_articlesthat I would like to tackle and practise at my sandbox. Hopefully, I shall have made nice stubs at the end of the editathon which I shall import to the main name-space at the end of the editathon. I will also be glad to introduce the Wiki-Africa incubatorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Incubatorand how it works to help new Wikipedia contributors learn the skill of editing wiki and generally contributing to Wikimedia. You can as well research for articles that interest you and ones you think need expansion or clean up on Wikipedia. In the meantime, prepare your laptops and charge the batteries:) regards, Stephen On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Ann Njeri njeria...@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: alll On 6/18/12, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: alll On 6/18/12, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Regarding the registration process, the lawyer is on leave for 2 weeks (until 27th June). I will poke him when he's back in office. Oscar, I only have a hard copy of the revised bylaws, and some of the changes were, I think, recorded on etherpad. I'll carry the hard copy with me at our next meetup, in case anyone needs it. And yes, we've already paid (an installment of) the legal fees, so let's hope that this will expedite the process. Abbas. From: stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:48:59 +0300 To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] June Meet-Up Woohoo! Nice job Abbas for following that up. PS: How far have we gone with the registration process? Thanks. //Stephen. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I've just received confirmation of the meetup: June 30th, 10am to 3pm. Mark your calenders. I'm yet to receive the exact location (whether it's at the Board Room or at the iHub itself). Regards,Abbas. Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:50:43 +0300 From: kipchogekos...@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] June Meet-Up Hi all, Edit only would be a fantastic idea. I second Xelawafs on that. On 09/06/2012, Alex Wafula xelaw...@gmail.com wrote: 30th sounds great. @Abbas, I figured we'd have the last Saturday of the month at iHub permanently booked for us; do let us know. I don't think a morning alone would do, I'd suggest a timing of 10 am - 3 pm should be great (my thoughts) Plus I propose this to be an edit only meetup. cheers, Alex On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:37 AM, raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Morning is better for me... David. -Original Message- From: Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com Sender: wikimediake-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 08:30:04 To: Wikimedia Kenyawikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: The discussion list for the Wikimedia Kenya chapter. wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] June Meet-Up ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Isaac K. Kosgei. Bachelor of Agribusiness Management +254727553981 SkypeProfile: Kipsizoo http://ke.linkedin.com/in/kipsizoo Twitter: @kipsizoo Blogs: www.kipsizoo.blogspot.com http://www.kipsizoo.blogspot.com/%20 Agribusiness Blog http://www.kipsizoo.wordpress.com/ My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world - Faye Wattleton ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum
Hello Nice people, It is really reassuring when you receive that phone call from someone with thirst for free knowledge which is the main mission of Wikimedia. One teacher from a school that benefited from the Wikipedia for Schools pilot that was accomplished in Mombasa, Kenya, gave a call to Bruce (Member of WMKE) and she requested for a copy of the DVD plus the manual of how to make the offline package functional. She had misplaced the copy we left after the pilot and she would like a new copy to install in new computers that the school acquired recently. It is very satisfying to learn that someone found the package useful. I will be sending her a copy during the week plus a manual via a courier service since she availed the school’s mailing address. At this point, I think it is wise for her school to partake in the story telling tour that will be executed by Victor Grigas who 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 existent topics to the current SOS version of off-line Wikipedia is done! As at [1] below. Dennis is still working on the business studies syllabus and as he promised he will be done by the end of this Month. I would suggest we use the talk page [2] for further communications with regards to the off-line project. Thank you everyone who has been working on this! //Stephen 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.comwrote: Asaf, The list of the contributors can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topicsaction=history --Abbas. -- From: abar...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:15:33 -0700 To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum Thanks for this update, Stephen. I'd like to encourage you guys to make progress on this work, so we can finally prepare a new ZIM file (we'll figure out the size problem if we have too. Probably by removing a few pictures.) and start working on distribution. Are you and Deonte the only ones working on this right now? Cheers, Asaf On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello, From my mathematical point of view, I believe that this new set will definitely generate more other articles into our new custom package. My argument being, every new article we request to be added will come with its new blue links which means more articles than what we already have in our not yet completed compilation of topics. This blue links mean more articles! As of now there are 500+ requested additions on [1] and if I do some maths by assuming that each new requested article has a minimum of 10 blue links then we are talking about 5000+ articles being added onto the SOS version of off-line WIkipedia. *Note* that the list is still a Work-In-Progress with more subjects to be added! The SOS version of the offline Wikipedia is 5500 articles which means that our new additions would not fit as an addition to the SOS version and still be 4gb. I met Deonte today and he requested for some pages of the Agriculture syllabus which he is working on right now. I still have the Business Education syllabus and the C.R.E. syllabus which I secured last week. //Stephen 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Grace Kariuki gkariuk...@gmail.comwrote: oh!okay. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:11 PM, stephen wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Thanks Sarah for the Clarifying. //Stephen. On 4/17/12, Sarah Osano sarahos...@gmail.com wrote: Grace, I think he is talking about laptop chargers not charges . On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Grace Kariuki gkariuk...@gmail.com wrote: sorry, i meant charges? On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 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 but not limited to the subject of this Email. We shall cover the remaining bit of the Kenyan syllabus as a basic intro to Wiki and later on do more editing on Wikipedia. My proposal is we could as well engage in the April Wikification Drive (see [1] below) but of course not limit ourselves
[Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya National Archives and other GLAM projects
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 the Kenyan government or for the Kenyan government definitely understand my concerns regarding the periods that they would take to decide on such a simple thing on what to do - probably call an AGM of the stakeholders. In most of the cases, these guys do not understand the online stuff or even how the internet works let alone Wikipedia (which is our work anyway). At the end they will come to appreciate that it is a good thing - which it is always is.There was a time when we visited the Kenya Railways museum and the curator there was always confusing their institutional website with Wikipedia. He thought Wikipedians job is to improve organizational websites! we clarified and made it clear about this and on the next meeting he was at it again! On our meeting with another directorate of the National Museums of Kenya, he asked whether he could find Wikipedia on Google search. the exact conversation was as below. *Alex*: Hello, My name is Alex and am here with my colleague Steve and we work at Wikipedia. Wikipedia is ...blah blah blah *Museum directorate*: Do you mean if I search Wikipedia on Google I will find it? (Was just hilarious:) Personally, I have not spoken to Kenya Archives about GLAM (though Abbas did). But I think we should just go ahead and organize editathons at this premises and this is why. On Sunday 17th 2012 I was to meet with a friend in town who was running late and so I decided to part with 50 Kenyan shillings ($0.5) and enter the premise (Kenya National Archives) just to see what it holds. Plus I did not want to stand along the streets or sit on the benches due to the frequent IED attacks in Nairobi. It is rich in artifacts and even books about history of Kenya, royal visits to Kenya, Kenyatta's famous chair and to crown it all they have a library with articles about all these treasures. The receptionist in fact encouraged me to take photos with a camera even before I asked for permission. She even encouraged me to become a member of their library and I only needed to part with 200 KES for a year as subscription to access the material plus the artifacts of course. My question is, can't we pay for this subscription and start using the library to write articles about Kenya now that they have offline references there? Probably on Weekends or even weekdays depending on the time one is free. I think the chapter can cushion the subscriptions if that would hinder any Wikipedian from accessing the facility. The internet shall definitely be provided. Kenya is still dark and still in the dark continent. Can't we illuminate it with some light..? My thoughts. //Stephen -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Cool Projects
Hey Folks! Since the deadline to submit cool projects is imminent. Are we still expecting the various versions of cool projects from the list members or we can just go ahead and post the ones openly mentioned in this thread? //Stephen On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Alex Wafula xelaw...@gmail.com wrote: Just to clarify, minutes for the meetup were posted here: http://wikimedia.or.ke/Minutes/26May12 Any/all updates of current projects have been posted on this list and/or mentioned during our meetups as well as on the board mailing list so in case I missed any updates of projects 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://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmke-meeting-26-05-2012 //stephen sent from my $100 gadget On 6/15/12, Stephen Wanjau stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hello! Dead drops were discussed during our last community meetup on 26th May at the Mlab and there was even an awesome video that I showed to the members present and everyone was convinced it was a good project that we could undertake. The same applies to GLAM plus other projects on the etherpad here http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/ wmke-meeting-26-05-2012 The minutes are yet to be posted on our website by Anne but every detail was documented on the pad including the snack munching session;) I thought the essence of using the etherpad was for members to follow the meeting proceedings remotely plus as a form of temporary documentation. We have to save the trees and let them live as we share in the yet to be sum of all human knowledge! cheers, Stephen. sent from my $100 gadget. On 6/15/12, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: Team While at it, It goes without saying, (though you said) our community runs on the virtue of openness and the following is what I filled as my taking as our cool projects. Could we please loop in the members on the current projects we are involved on? I am sure very many are hearing of some of this of for the very 1st time like Geo Dops, Railways , GLAM and if possible updates on the doings as they happen just that all of us are on the same page?? My Cool Projects are: - Heathers Meetup at iHub where we explained the reason why we need/dont need sw:wp or why it does not work (My favorite meetup and fruitful discusion) - The Photo walk that culminated on the current discussions with the Railway Museum - And of course the current efforts to have a localized Offline Wikipedia -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, *point me to the destiny,and I will curve my own path to it * -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Translators-l] Translations wanted for May 2012 Wikimedia Highlights
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 encounter any difficulties feel free to contact me. //Stephen -- Forwarded message -- From: Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org Date: Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:12 AM Subject: [Translators-l] Translations wanted for May 2012 Wikimedia Highlights To: Wikimedia Translators translator...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, as every month, translations are wanted for the new edition of the Wikimedia Highlights, consisting of the most relevant information from the Foundation's general and technical monthly reports for April, with a short selection of other important news from the Wikimedia movement. Please consider helping non-English-language Wikimedia communities to stay updated on the most important WMF activities, MediaWiki development work and other international news from the past month, by providing a translation at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012 For Danish, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Dutch, Polish, Vietnamese, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian, Macedonian, Tamil and Turkish, it is useful to compare the earlier translations ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights#Previous_issues ), as the Data and Trends and Financials sections contain a lot of recurring vocabulary. As usual, it is planned to announce the translations - i.e.those which have been completed at that point - on the general Wikimedia announcements list Wikimediaannounce-l, on Wednesday, June 20. Of course translations will still be welcome after that announcement. We are also posting the translated versions as language- and country-targeted updates of the official Wikipedia Facebook account, which reaches a large audience, and recently started promoting them on other social media channels as well (e.g. https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/201975842472067072 ). Many thanks! Regards, Stephen. Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Kenya Blog
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 all our updates and progress in what we are doing in an elaborate manner and style. Emails are not that refined especially to new members and to the international community who are part of this list and the whole Wikimedia fraternity. Secondly, we will request to join chapters planethttp://www.chaptersplanet.org/which aims to facilitate information sharing about the work of the Wikimedia chapters http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chaptersand the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org by aggregating their blog feeds in one place and providing translation services. This way other chapters will know what we are doing and we will also get free translation services to other languages like Chinese now that they are building Thika road and they need to know about Wikimedia Kenya:). (Decided to use Chinese as an example) For my part, it will be a part of my signature in all emails and where necessary point to it if an email am writing has a blog post up for clarity and further reading which I will definitely help. See [3]. Looking forward to your feedback about this. 1. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/swanjau/7377793604/in/set-72157630140607210/ 2. https://secure.flickr.com/photos/swanjau/7377794504/in/set-72157630140607210/ 3. It will really really help. regards, Stephen Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] List Title
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 ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenyan Wikipedia Stories
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 29, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Alex Wafula xelaw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I've posted Victor's message here: http://wikimedia.or.ke/KenyaStoryTelling#Victor in preparation for when he'll come to Kenya this August. I'll soon have it up on Wikipedia en and sw. I need a Swahili translation for the message so anyone up to it, do write one on the talk page, I've provided a link. cheers, Alex ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Reminder: meetup on 26th
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 also uploaded the pictures to commons under the category Wikimedia meetups in Kenya.http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_meetups_in_KenyaImportant to note though there will be an exclusive editing session soon! Watch this space soon. //Stephen. On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Moffat M.Ngacha moffa...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I'll be attending. see you all. Moffatmn. On 5/23/12, Ann Njeri ann.nj...@wikimedia.or.ke wrote: Hi all, This is just to remind all of us about the meetup this Saturday that is going to be held at I-Hub on 3rd floor in Bishop Magua Building along Ngong Road. Please indicate your attendance on the ether pad. Whether attending or not please point out some action items that you believe we should discuss. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmke-meeting-26-05-2012 PS: Meeting starts at 10am in the Boardroom. Regards, Ann -- Moffat Ngacha. Web and Mobile Software Developer. Google SSA Student Ambassador. EUCOSSA | Egerton University,KE www.moffatmn.com | http://gplus.to/moffatmn (+254) 726 560 655 | Twitter @moffatmn ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] Website
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 http://wikimedia.or.ke/Events is showing that it is pointing to an external page 'Asaf's visit to Kenya' yet that very same page is within our Wiki website. Input in that line would be highly appreciated and is anticipated. There are definitely other structural bits that are still been fine tuned and hopefully the site shall be complete in due course, like importing some templates blah blah Otherwise, I look forward to meeting all of you tomorrow, Oh! Not all but those who have RSVP'ed to the event:) Ciao! //Stephen 1.http://wikimedia.or.ke/Main_Page ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Reminder: meetup on 26th
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: Hi all, This is just to remind all of us about the meetup this Saturday that is going to be held at I-Hub on 3rd floor in Bishop Magua Building along Ngong Road. Please indicate your attendance on the ether pad. Whether attending or not please point out some action items that you believe we should discuss. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmke-meeting-26-05-2012 PS: Meeting starts at 10am in the Boardroom. Regards, Ann ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Wikimedia Kenya Board Member Treasurer ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia UK] Welcome to the world’s first Wikipedia town
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 of the things that contribute to make Wikipedia work are topic-specific WikiProjects (“let’s write about a town), Wikimedia chapters (“let’s organize throughout the United Kingdom”), and unique ideas (“let’s use QR codes to share content”). This week these three things successfully came together to create Monmouthpedia, “The World’s First Wikipedia Town” in Monmouth, Wales. The idea for Monmouthpedia began at a TEDx talk in Bristol when John Cummings, an occasional Wikipedia editor, suggested from the audience that the UK Chapter use QR codes to “do a whole town.” That challenge was handed to Cummings when the Wikimedia UK chapter backed the idea. He then moved to his home town of Monmouth where he assembled an ad hoc group of supporters who wanted to participate, including the local County Council. The project has taken six months of preparation, including a commitment by the town to install a free, town-wide wi-fi network (the first of its kind in Wales). On 19 May the entire town will be bedecked with banners declaring Monmouth as the first Wikipedia Town in the world. The Monmouthpedia project uses QRpedia to allow visitors to scan QR codes that link directly to the Wikipedia article in their own language. Because of Monmouth’s efforts to provide free wi-fi and implement QRpedia, the town is likely the only place where a visitor can tour in Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Welsh, or numerous other Wikipedia languages using QR codes. Much of the success of Monmouthpedia comes from its ability to capture the imagination of the Wikipedia community, which has embraced the town virtually. Wikipedia volunteers have contributed nearly 500 new articles in over 25 languages, as well as videos on topics such as the historic Chartists movement. The project also has a long list of partners, including 200 businesses, several universities and nearly every school and community group in the area. Wikipedia has partnered with museums and other institutions before, as in Derby, but in Monmouth you will see over 1,000 QR codes on every school, every important building, and hundreds of shops. The County Council itself has a QRpedia code in its reception that takes you to their Wikipedia article. Lest you think this is a passing interest, the town of Monmouth is in it for the long haul. Many of the QRpedia codes are printed on ceramic plaques that should last for decades. The information in articles is backed by the Wikipedia community and will be continually improved and expanded. Physical guides and maps will become outdated, but the Wikipedia articles will always be able to be updated. This potential for on-site access to up-to-date information in any language is what makes the Monmouthpedia model so exciting. How long can Wikipedia defy the theory and continue to deliver free information to the planet in over 280 languages? We think the Monmouthpedia story provides a very optimistic outlook. If you want to find out more, visit the Monmouthpedia website and take a look at the associated articles on Wikipedia. Post written by Roger Bamkin, Director of Wikimedia UK (Victuallers ) *Can this be done in Nairobi? At least for the monuments* //Stephen. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Foundation Board Seats
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. [1]. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmke-WMFboard-selection On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Alex, We have WMF Board Members, WMF Staff Nominees on this list. So we have 2 options: 1) I can temporarily remove these people from our mailing list, and add them back later on. 2) Have this discussion off-list, with discussions being sent over batch emails to interested chapter members. I'd personally go for Option 2, since even if I remove members from this list, the discussion archives are still publicly available and therefore easily accessible. What do others think? Abbas. -- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:12:06 +0300 From: xelaw...@gmail.com To: i...@oliverstegen.net; wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Foundation Board Seats Hi BT, Yah, the editathone never happened. We had a good quorum of around 10 guys but unfortunately, unforeseen events at Mugo's place (the venue) left us without a venue. We tried looking for alternatives but didn't get a workable one so we had to abort it. It was decided that we move the editathone to 30th but later on suggestions of just having someone work on the list came up considering the number of times we've had to postpone this. I'll have a new thread for a followup. So back to WMF chapter selected seats. It's common that chapters discuss this off list or on internal lists, do you think we can do it on this list because I don't foresee a meetup before the 5th of July. cheers, alex On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Oliver Stegen i...@oliverstegen.netwrote: ** ** ** What, the editathon never happened? Or just the discussion during the editathon? If the editathon happened, updates please J Oliver (aka BT) ** ** -- *From:* Alex Wafula [mailto:xelaw...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 22 April 2012 15:19 *To:* **The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter.** *Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Foundation Board Seats* *** ** ** We already have recommendations as a board on this thatt we'd like to passby chapter members before passing a resolution. We hoped to have a light discussion yestrerday during the editathon which never happened. We have till 5th of May for consensus by chapters for these seats after which chapters will have to vote incase a consensus isn't arrived at. Feedback from the board is coming up soon... cheers, Alex On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, ** ** Could we get Wikimedia Kenya's Board to select it's prefered candidates in the Chapter-Selected WMF Board seats: http://chapters.wikimedia.ch/Appointment_process/2012/Chapters_Resolutions ** ** Thanks, Abbas. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ** ** ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum
Hello Folks, Hope you are doing great and bracing yourselves for this Saturday's edittathon that shall evolve around but not limited to the subject of this Email. We shall cover the remaining bit of the Kenyan syllabus as a basic intro to Wiki and later on do more editing on Wikipedia. My proposal is we could as well engage in the April Wikification Drive (see [1] below) but of course not limit ourselves to that as well. The venue of the Meet up is at the environs of Upper-hill in Nairobi at Mugo's place which is near the public Service Club. For those who do not know how to get there please contact me off-list for prior arrangements on how to get there. The edittathon starts at 600PM local time and runs through the Night till Sunday Morning. *What to Bring:* * * 1. Laptops plus the chargers of course;) See you soon. PS: There is an experienced Wikipedian who is in the country on a short private visit and he tells me that he would like to be part of this edittathon on 21st and to meet other awesome Wikipedians. //Stephen 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Stephenwanjau#Invitation_to_the_April_Wikification_Drive On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Chris Riwa chriwaus...@gmail.com wrote: Hi steve, I gave the syllabus copies to Dennis during our last meet-up. Regards, On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Branton Obwari bruceobw...@gmail.comwrote: Steve , i agree with you we don't need a separate meeting to do that ,for starters like ME ,we need the 10minutes 'how to' demo ,so can we do it right here?, Chris has a copy of it, i can catch up with him. Otherwise am glad you are back i love the positive energy you inject into WMKE. My regards! Branton. 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 meeting to learn how to compile it on Meta sounds ridiculous. I remember it took me 10minutes to give a demo to Dennis on how to do this. (Dennis correct me if wrong). Folks it is wise to maximise on the time that we usually meet in covering/discussing all of our projects since we do not have F2F meetups that often and they are expensive in terms of resources that volunteers put into attending these meetings. (sad truth!) Without much ado, I would like to get my hands on the syllabus. The last time I checked, Chris had the copy. Is he the one who still has it? //Stephen. On 3/26/12, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:58 AM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Folks, I have finally secured a copy of the Geography Syllabus that was still lacking. It is a 130 page document and I will talk to the owner to allow me have it until next week hoping that you will find time to work on it on 31st after the board elections. It is so detailed and that's why it is at 130 pages otherwise it should take around 2hours to have the list on meta once apportioned among the attendees. Excellent! If need be, you might perhaps spend some chapter money on photocopying the whole thing. Would this conclude the preparation of the Kenyan Curriculum topic list, allowing to move forward with preparing a new ZIM file? Thanks for pursuing this! Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Chris A. Riwa* Research Specialist and Consultant Mobile: *+254(0)725-930-850 *e-mail: - *chriwaus...@gmail.com* - *otieno_ch...@yahoo.com* - *chriwaus...@facebook.com* Skype: *chriwaustin* Twitter: *@chriwaustin* Facebook: *facebook.com/chriwaustin* ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum
Thanks Sarah for the Clarifying. //Stephen. On 4/17/12, Sarah Osano sarahos...@gmail.com wrote: Grace, I think he is talking about laptop chargers not charges [?]. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Grace Kariuki gkariuk...@gmail.com wrote: sorry, i meant charges? On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 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 but not limited to the subject of this Email. We shall cover the remaining bit of the Kenyan syllabus as a basic intro to Wiki and later on do more editing on Wikipedia. My proposal is we could as well engage in the April Wikification Drive (see [1] below) but of course not limit ourselves to that as well. The venue of the Meet up is at the environs of Upper-hill in Nairobi at Mugo's place which is near the public Service Club. For those who do not know how to get there please contact me off-list for prior arrangements on how to get there. The edittathon starts at 600PM local time and runs through the Night till Sunday Morning. What to Bring: 1. Laptops plus the chargers of course;) See you soon. PS: There is an experienced Wikipedian who is in the country on a short private visit and he tells me that he would like to be part of this edittathon on 21st and to meet other awesome Wikipedians. //Stephen 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Stephenwanjau#Invitation_to_the_April_Wikification_Drive On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Chris Riwa chriwaus...@gmail.com wrote: Hi steve, I gave the syllabus copies to Dennis during our last meet-up. Regards, On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Branton Obwari bruceobw...@gmail.com wrote: Steve , i agree with you we don't need a separate meeting to do that ,for starters like ME ,we need the 10minutes 'how to' demo ,so can we do it right here?, Chris has a copy of it, i can catch up with him. Otherwise am glad you are back i love the positive energy you inject into WMKE. My regards! Branton. 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 meeting to learn how to compile it on Meta sounds ridiculous. I remember it took me 10minutes to give a demo to Dennis on how to do this. (Dennis correct me if wrong). Folks it is wise to maximise on the time that we usually meet in covering/discussing all of our projects since we do not have F2F meetups that often and they are expensive in terms of resources that volunteers put into attending these meetings. (sad truth!) Without much ado, I would like to get my hands on the syllabus. The last time I checked, Chris had the copy. Is he the one who still has it? //Stephen. On 3/26/12, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:58 AM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Folks, I have finally secured a copy of the Geography Syllabus that was still lacking. It is a 130 page document and I will talk to the owner to allow me have it until next week hoping that you will find time to work on it on 31st after the board elections. It is so detailed and that's why it is at 130 pages otherwise it should take around 2hours to have the list on meta once apportioned among the attendees. Excellent! If need be, you might perhaps spend some chapter money on photocopying the whole thing. Would this conclude the preparation of the Kenyan Curriculum topic list, allowing to move forward with preparing a new ZIM file? Thanks for pursuing this! Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Chris A. Riwa Research Specialist and Consultant Mobile: +254(0)725-930-850 e-mail: chriwaus...@gmail.com otieno_ch...@yahoo.com chriwaus...@facebook.com Skype: chriwaustin Twitter: @chriwaustin Facebook: facebook.com/chriwaustin ___ WikimediaKE mailing list
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Antw.: [Announcement] Wikimedia Kenya's New Board
Hello Everyone! Thank you for the congratulatory messages. In my part am happy to be on the board and with a great team. Manuel, I would prefer stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke best, Stephen On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Branton Obwari bruceobw...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations are in order! ,indeed we have a board in place whose members have diverse experience in different spheres ,to Ann,Alex,David,Oscar Steve members have so much confidence in you i know you will perform ,There you go ! good luck Branton On 3/31/12, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, That is ok with me. David. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: Hi, congratulations to the new board and my special thanks to Abbas and all the others who supported and facilitated the process of establishment of Wikimedia Kenya. You achieved something and did a great job. As soon as I am back from the Chapter Meeting I will set up a wmke-bo...@wikimedia.or.ke and personal e-mail adresses for all board members in the scheme firstname.lastn...@wikimedia.or.ke - is this ok for you? Best regards, Manuel Schneider Sent via mobile phone (+49 170 7740589). - Reply message - Von: Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com An: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Betreff: [Wikimedia Kenya] [Announcement] Wikimedia Kenya's New Board Datum: Sa., Mär. 31, 2012 16:22 Hi all, 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 expertise and leadership skills. I think that they're a good fit for our egalitarian, international, non-profit culture. And we've got a woman on the Board, which matters to me because we will have someone to relate to, when it comes to gender-gap issues :) Many thanks to those who assisted in the elections process: Chris, Branton, Cliff Oliver. And many thanks to all the nominees who took their time to submit their candidature and also answer our questions. Let's all welcome our new Board as they orient themselves in their new roles. Thanks, Abbas. PS -- Note to the Board: I've forwarded your names to be added to Internal Chapters Mailing Lists. I am also looking into creating your Board Mailing List. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- - David Mugo, ICT E-Commerce Consultant, http://majibu.com Twitter: @raidarmax ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum
Hello Folks, I have finally secured a copy of the Geography Syllabus that was still lacking. It is a 130 page document and I will talk to the owner to allow me have it until next week hoping that you will find time to work on it on 31st after the board elections. It is so detailed and that's why it is at 130 pages otherwise it should take around 2hours to have the list on meta once apportioned among the attendees. //Stephen. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:09 AM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: If you have a hard copy of the syllabus, we can use OCR software to convert it to digital 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 and we had none proposed for removal from the SOS version like the Indian folks are doing. [1] I have added a new column [2] that has the subject/category under which the various topics fall to keep things a little bit organized and sortable. The syllabus that I gave Dennis is a hard copy of around 300 pages-A4 size and having it on-line would be somehow tedious since it will take quite some time to scan it and again it is not such a clear copy since it is also a photocopy of the original and might end up illegible. Anyone who would like to contribute to the off-line compilation of topics can liaise with Dennis to get some pages of the document to work on though I understand he is almost done;) Regards, Stephen 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Offline_Wikipedia_for_Indian_Schools/Offline_Full/Art#Articles_to_be_removed 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: So glad this is in the pipeline! We actually just got an email from Camara (the computer distributor) informing us of updates they have in their Ubuntu software, and their desire to include a Kenya-specific offline edition. So - that's a challenge! The question is - when can we get it done? I just posted on the talk page[1] referencing the way the India project is organizing their offline effort. It might be a bit too elaborate for the Kenya version (Requires the creation of a LOT of additional pages), but the two pieces of it that I think are incredibly valuable: # the separation by category in the list of articles they are proposing to add, and # the ability for everyone to contribute rather than just one person. I am wondering - is there a way to get the syllabus online so that way Dennis doesn't have to do it all himself? If not, Dennis - is there a way we can support your efforts? Thanks!! Jessie [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 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, Business Studies and CRE. ?stephen [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 morehttps://uwanja.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation/| My bloghttp://uwanja.wordpress.com [image: Share on Facebook]http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fuwanja.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2F09%2F39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation%2F [image: Share on Twitter]https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=39th%20Chapter%20of%20the%20Wikimedia%20Foundation%20%20%28via%20%40wisestamp%29 Get this email app! http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/wordpress?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_term=wordpressutm_campaign=apps [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/uwanja Latest tweet: Tuko area.RT @amDENNO_ACE I'm sure hakuna #kot onlyne saa hii... Follow @uwanja http://twitter.com/uwanja Reply http://twitter.com/?status=@uwanja%20in_reply_to_status_id=176493827664789500in_reply_to=uwanja Retweet http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40uwanja%3A%20Tuko%20area.RT%20%40amDENNO_ACE%20I%27m%20sure%20hakuna%20%23kot%20%20onlyne%20saa%20hii... 05:26 Mar-05http://twitter.com/uwanja/statuses/176493827664789504 Get this email app! http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/twitter?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_term=twitterutm_campaign=apps http://www.linkedin.com/in/ Want a signature like mine? http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] self description
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 IT expert who is interested with joining this program for as long as it takes. this will encourage me use the knowledge i have and also learn more about mailing, editing and linking e.t.c. Love travelling, adventuring, reading, watching movies, making friends, swiming and hiking. I believe in giving my best to receive the best. -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] BERLIN CONFERENCE
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 ( http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/berlin-conference) where some of us have been populating it with our chapter undertakings. You can add onto what is already there. //Stephen On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Ann Njeri njeria...@gmail.com wrote: Good job Steve ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] The Elections Programme
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 plan for all the activities that will precede the actual election. Generally, we aim at having a free and fair election process that will also be educative and eventful. Hence, we call for all members to kindly come out and support this activity in a positive manner. The different activities that we agreed on and the dates we expect them to be performed are stated below: 1. *Declaration of intention.* This serves as an official announcement by a member to contest for the position of board member of WMKE. This can be done on our official mailing list, as most of you have done, and the last date for this activity will be on Wednesday, 21st March 2012 by 1159hours. 2. *Registration of contestants.* This will involve the determination of whether an applicant is eligible to contest for the position of a board member of WMKE as per the Chapter's Constitution or any other rules agreed upon by the members. This is fully the responsibility of the electoral team and the results are to be released on Saturday, 24th March 2012 between noon and 1159hours. ..between noon to 1159hours.. is negative one minute if my knowledge of time serves me right [1]. Was it supposed to be noon to 2359H..or 1159hours to noon? regards, Stephen. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] The Elections Programme
Hello Folks, I hope this finds you well. As you all know, Alex and I shall be out of the country to attend the chapter's meeting in Berlin wen the elections will be held. To that end, I would like to advise the electoral team to furnish me and WMKE on anything they might need from me 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...@gmail.comwrote: 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 plan for all the activities that will precede the actual election. Generally, we aim at having a free and fair election process that will also be educative and eventful. Hence, we call for all members to kindly come out and support this activity in a positive manner. The different activities that we agreed on and the dates we expect them to be performed are stated below: 1. *Declaration of intention.* This serves as an official announcement by a member to contest for the position of board member of WMKE. This can be done on our official mailing list, as most of you have done, and the last date for this activity will be on Wednesday, 21st March 2012 by 1159hours. 2. *Registration of contestants.* This will involve the determination of whether an applicant is eligible to contest for the position of a board member of WMKE as per the Chapter's Constitution or any other rules agreed upon by the members. This is fully the responsibility of the electoral team and the results are to be released on Saturday, 24th March 2012 between noon and 1159hours. ..between noon to 1159hours.. is negative one minute if my knowledge of time serves me right [1]. Was it supposed to be noon to 2359H..or 1159hours to noon? regards, Stephen. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: Meta e-mail from user 06Ivonne
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, I'm Ivonne Kristiani from Wikimedia Indonesia. I realized that we're going to meet in Berlin so I thought I'll contact you. There will be a discussion of Chapter selected board of trustees and chapters council there and I'd like to know more about it. Has Wikimedia Kenya come to a decision of who to endorse for WMF Board of Trustess? Have you discussed amongst yourself about the chapters council? Looking forward to hear from you! Regards, Ivonne Kristiani -- This e-mail was sent by 06Ivonne to Stephenwanjau by the E-mail user function at Meta. -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Ihub call for Organized group meetups
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 abbas...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi, iHub has confirmed that they are willing to give us some space every last Saturday of the month, starting this month on 31 March 2011. --Abbas. -- From: hf...@ushahidi.com Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:11:36 -0800 To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Ihub call for Organized group meetups On Feb 7, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Limoke Oscar wrote: Thanks Heather, yes sure you can help us by pushing up for our group to get a spot. Your Ushahidi badge should come in handy :-) Yes! I will add my voice :) Nice to hear from you again. So how is the research going? Well, thanks, Oscar. Should be publishing the first results pretty soon. Will definitely post here when I do. Best, Heather. On 2/7/12, Heather Ford hf...@ushahidi.com wrote: This is wonderful! Let me know if there's anything I can do to help this along too :) On Feb 7, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Limoke Oscar wrote: Thanks Alex, Please follow it up. I hear iHub may grant permanent corners to such groups at their space which will really be a good thing if we get one, at-least we will have an office keep us posted On 2/7/12, Alex Wafula xelaw...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm on it. One of the managers of the space had mentioned this; meeting up with him sometime this week. I'll be looking into getting a permanent date for meetups at the space (once a month). Alex So i just stumbled on this and am traveeling so couldnt wait to share it. I think we need to be a part of it. so who is going to follow it up? www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2012/02/call-for-ihub-user-groups-and-meetups/ Aplogies for typos ;-) ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Limoke Oscar, ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake Heather Ford Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver http://ushahidi.com | http://swiftly.org @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org -- Limoke Oscar, ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake Heather Ford Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver http://ushahidi.com | http://swiftly.org @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Introduction.....
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 Kenyan chapter activities and events and I think its wonderful and great what the community of Wikimedia Kenya is doing empowering,educating and informing the public on what Wikimedia is all about. It for this that I would like to assist and participate in Wikimedia Kenya chapter events and activities whenever possible. kind regards -- Nelson Barasa Skype(nelbaro) +254 721 604 745 ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum
Hello Nice People, We were adding article links that are covered in the Kenyan school syllabus that were non existent on the SOS version and we had none proposed for removal from the SOS version like the Indian folks are doing. [1] I have added a new column [2] that has the subject/category under which the various topics fall to keep things a little bit organized and sortable. The syllabus that I gave Dennis is a hard copy of around 300 pages-A4 size and having it on-line would be somehow tedious since it will take quite some time to scan it and again it is not such a clear copy since it is also a photocopy of the original and might end up illegible. Anyone who would like to contribute to the off-line compilation of topics can liaise with Dennis to get some pages of the document to work on though I understand he is almost done;) Regards, Stephen 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Offline_Wikipedia_for_Indian_Schools/Offline_Full/Art#Articles_to_be_removed 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: So glad this is in the pipeline! We actually just got an email from Camara (the computer distributor) informing us of updates they have in their Ubuntu software, and their desire to include a Kenya-specific offline edition. So - that's a challenge! The question is - when can we get it done? I just posted on the talk page[1] referencing the way the India project is organizing their offline effort. It might be a bit too elaborate for the Kenya version (Requires the creation of a LOT of additional pages), but the two pieces of it that I think are incredibly valuable: # the separation by category in the list of articles they are proposing to add, and # the ability for everyone to contribute rather than just one person. I am wondering - is there a way to get the syllabus online so that way Dennis doesn't have to do it all himself? If not, Dennis - is there a way we can support your efforts? Thanks!! Jessie [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 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, Business Studies and CRE. ?stephen [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 morehttps://uwanja.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation/| My bloghttp://uwanja.wordpress.com [image: Share on Facebook]http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fuwanja.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2F09%2F39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation%2F [image: Share on Twitter]https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=39th%20Chapter%20of%20the%20Wikimedia%20Foundation%20%20%28via%20%40wisestamp%29 Get this email app! http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/wordpress?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_term=wordpressutm_campaign=apps [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/uwanja Latest tweet: Tuko area.RT @amDENNO_ACE I'm sure hakuna #kot onlyne saa hii... Follow @uwanja http://twitter.com/uwanja Reply http://twitter.com/?status=@uwanja%20in_reply_to_status_id=176493827664789500in_reply_to=uwanja Retweet http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40uwanja%3A%20Tuko%20area.RT%20%40amDENNO_ACE%20I%27m%20sure%20hakuna%20%23kot%20%20onlyne%20saa%20hii... 05:26 Mar-05http://twitter.com/uwanja/statuses/176493827664789504 Get this email app! http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/twitter?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_term=twitterutm_campaign=apps http://www.linkedin.com/in/ Want a signature like mine? http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=16dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_16 Click here.http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=16dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_16 On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi all, We were developing the content curriculum for the Kenyan curriculum so that we could have a custom-made offline Wikipedia version for us here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics. Is there anyone who is still working on this? As of now we have articles on Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Mathematics, IRE, Agriculture
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum
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, Business Studies and CRE. ?stephen [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 morehttps://uwanja.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation/| My bloghttp://uwanja.wordpress.com [image: Share on Facebook]http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fuwanja.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2F09%2F39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation%2F [image: Share on Twitter]https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=39th%20Chapter%20of%20the%20Wikimedia%20Foundation%20%20%28via%20%40wisestamp%29 Get this email app! http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/wordpress?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_term=wordpressutm_campaign=apps [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/uwanja Latest tweet: Tuko area.RT @amDENNO_ACE I'm sure hakuna #kot onlyne saa hii... Follow @uwanja http://twitter.com/uwanja Reply http://twitter.com/?status=@uwanja%20in_reply_to_status_id=176493827664789500in_reply_to=uwanja Retweet http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40uwanja%3A%20Tuko%20area.RT%20%40amDENNO_ACE%20I%27m%20sure%20hakuna%20%23kot%20%20onlyne%20saa%20hii... 05:26 Mar-05http://twitter.com/uwanja/statuses/176493827664789504 Get this email app! http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/twitter?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_term=twitterutm_campaign=apps http://www.linkedin.com/in/ Want a signature like mine? http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=16dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_16 Click here.http://r1.wisestamp.com/r/landing?promo=16dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisestamp.com%2Femail-install%3Futm_source%3Dextension%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dpromo_16 On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, We were developing the content curriculum for the Kenyan curriculum so that we could have a custom-made offline Wikipedia version for us here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics. Is there anyone who is still working on this? As of now we have articles on Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Mathematics, IRE, Agriculture, History Geography. We don't have articles on Business Studies CRE. Articles re Physics, Math, and Geography are too few and still need to be increased. Is there anyone here who has access to the Kenyan curriculum willing to fill in the blanks? Thanks to Steve Dennis on adding some articles. --Abbas. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: Register: Learn Wikipedia editing while you sit at home
[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 morehttps://uwanja.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation/| My bloghttp://uwanja.wordpress.com [image: Share on Facebook]http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fuwanja.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2F09%2F39th-chapter-of-the-wikimedia-foundation%2F [image: Share on Twitter]https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=39th%20Chapter%20of%20the%20Wikimedia%20Foundation%20%20%28via%20%40wisestamp%29 Get this email app! http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/wordpress?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_term=wordpressutm_campaign=apps [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/uwanja -- Forwarded message -- From: Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:02 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Register: Learn Wikipedia editing while you sit at home To: wikimediaindia-l Community list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hey All, It's feels great to receive so much enthusiasm and support from all of you regarding experimenting online outreach. But unfortunately, until now I haven't heard from anyone who'd want to participate in this session. I'm writing to invite all the people who are on this list but are not comfortable to edit - please come forward and register for this session. Here is the link to the registration form: http://tinyurl.com/RegistrationWikisession. Here are some more details about the session: *Date:* 10th March, Saturday (Sorry the date had to be changed. My earlier mailhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-March/007183.html mentioned 11th March but we have a Delhi monthly meet-up at the same time) *Time:* 3pm-6pm *Medium: *Google hangout. Google hangout lets you do a group video conferencing, and it's completely free. Thou, you might have to install plug ins. *Logistics:* Please make sure that you have a webcam installed and that your speaker and mic are functioning well. If you'd like to test audio, video, screen sharing, internet stability or just to test how Google hangout works please log in 15-30 mins before the start of the session - I'll be available on Google hangout starting 2.30pm to help you out with all the technical issues. *Maximum no. of participants:* 9 participants + 1 facilitator. Up to10 people can do a google hangout together. Participation will be confirmed on the basis of first come first registration. Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone who you think might be interested. Let me know if you have any questions at all about the session. Hoping to hear from many of you! :-) Thanks Nitika ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* http://uwanja.wordpress.com ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] First Outreach 2012 to Mombasa
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. Wikipedia Vision to show how real time edits are mapped on Google maps http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html 3.Connecting to the IRC for recent changes feed projection. 4.http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Best_practices_in_public_outreach Hakuna haja ya aibu ndogo ndogo Mombasani. And this one is just the reading http://blog.tommorris.org/post/18271663638/wikipedia-and-teaching-game-rules?0613cfa0 //Stephen. On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:14 PM, morine musyoka musyoka.mor...@gmail.com wrote: i would really love to be part of the team going to coast. Morine On Feb 24, 2012 12:18 PM, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: Pardon, but who are you Nelson? Please introduce yourself and let me know why you would like to go (other than its cool kwenda Msa?) On 2/24/12, Nelson baras...@gmail.com wrote: hey, would like to participate however more details on when its to be held On 2/23/12, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, Apologies for the delayed response to your queries. I have had an avalanche of emails to attend to this past week and just openning WMKE Label to find it full and demanding attention too. I will try to attend to all of your queries and shed more light on the Outreach to Mombasa Branton: GTUG =Google Technical User Group It is a group of people who use google tools and products and who have a common interest :-) happy? So about the other who would love to attend the Outreach, so I have been working on the Activities for the outreach and so far I would love to see who will be willing to help with carrying out Trainings and hands on Wikipedia and related Wikimedia projects in the following aspects: 1. Introduction to Wikip/media 2.Hands on Training on Editing Wikipedia 3. Beyond Editing ( contributing to Wikip/media projects i.e Commons, Wikifying, Anti-Vandalism, Translations etc So since we are going 3 to Mombasa, let me who is willing to take what and we are good Best regards, -- Limoke Oscar, ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Nelson B. Wekesa. Skype(nelbaro) ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Limoke Oscar, ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better My Blog | @uwanja | ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk
Hello, Thank you Oliver for the comprehensive summary of what we accomplished yesterday. FYI, we managed to cover only the CBD and so Upperhill, Westlands, Mombasa road and some other sections didn't feel the love of wikis;) To add onto that, for those residing in Kenya you are all aware that the internet provider Safaricom is having some technical issue with the internet connection. My connection has been intermittent yet I have selected around 200 photos that I shall upload to commons once this techy issue is resolved, plus I requested for an upload bot to make the process easier which is being compiled somewhere I hope;) Wikis truly expressed their love for Nairobi yesterday and that’s the beginning/continuation of a long life relationship between wikis and Nairobi city. During the walk we visited the Kenya Railways museums. Shock on us (Alex, Oscar and me) as we had never gone there and neither knew of its location but thank God Oliver was on board and he directed us there ;). While we were there we talked to the receptionists and the curators who were on duty as they showed us around. At first they thought we were just the usual tourists but after we introduced Wikipedia, we were welcomed to have a sit and talk about possible collaborations. I wish coffee is not served there ;) Am glad that the curators knew of Wikipedia and the article about the museum where they work is a stub;( That place is full of history and rich in culture. Aki. - I sat and touched the seat which the queen sat on during her Royal Trip to East Africa. - A front seat on which Roosevelt sat in front of a train on his Safari in Africa is there - The Captains sideboard salvaged from the German cruiser KONIGSBERG which was scuttled by its crew in the Rufiji 1914-1918. - Claws from the man eaters of Tsavo are preserved there! - ……..plus so much more and more. If anything we ran out of time. We talked over of possible collaborations with the museum and the answer was a big YES but the bosses were not around now that it was on a weekend. They were contacted and notified of our presence and intentions after which they gave their juniors the go ahead to give us their contacts and an appointment on the coming week. If I compare the mere size of this museum, then I think the Kenya National Museum is a whole new world and this combined with other museums across the country?___ I am currently finding out how GLAM fellowships works and how to engage such institutions. These places have tons of information that should be on Wikimedia. Another Wikipedian is talking with his folk at the Kenya National Archives about the same. So if we engage these institutions on higher levels we might have hit the jackpot to bring this info. Online. All in all it was a nice sunny day. //Stephen. On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Oliver Stegen i...@oliverstegen.netwrote: ** ** ** ** ** Hi WMKE friends and fellows, ** ** We (= Steve, Oscar, Alex, Chris, Morine and yours truly) had a great photo walk today, starting from the New Tom Mboya Monument on Moi Avenue and then crossing Haile Selassie to the Nairobi Railway Museum (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi_Railway_Museum - and notice that the article doesn’t have a picture yet, which should change soon!). From there, we went back to Koinange St and ended our walk at the Savannah Coffee Lounge on Loita St where Wikimedia Kenya had its first face-to-face meeting in July 2010 – so, many historical memories! J ** ** I’m looking forward to seeing a number of photos uploaded onto Commons (Steve, are you going to go through those 400+ pictures, select the best of each building and post them in the Category:Nairobi?). ** ** At Savannah, there was also some talk of stream-lining the information of this mailing list with the two WMKE websites on Meta and @co.ke – currently, some info isn’t available **anywhere** - bother! ** ** Finally, we also discussed the upcoming board elections and suggested that these take place on March 17th (anything else would be too late – we need to send some documents to WMF with signatures of board members, so there! – and the next two weekends are already booked with outreaches to Mombasa and Egerton). So, within the next 8 days, candidates to the 5 board positions (Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and Project / Logistics Officer) need to write up their profiles. These should be sent to whoever will be in charge of the elections … another question which has to be solved soonest! ** ** So, let’s get cracking so that we don’t lose our newly won chapterhood!*** * Yours for making the sum of all human knowledge available to every single fellow inhabitant of our planet, Oliver (aka BT) ** ** -- *From:* stephen wanjau [mailto:wanjaus...@gmail.com] *Sent
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk
Hello, I appreciate the fact that Oliver has stepped in to salvage the situation. Your offer to assist us with this is exceedingly valued Oliver. If you will be available on Friday to go and get that tourist permit, then that would be perfect since the offices at the City Council remain shut on the weekends. PS: Mitchell, Let’s stick to the topics on the thread. ? Stephen On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Kosgei Isaac kipchogekos...@gmail.comwrote: Hey About the photo walk lets just go on with it in the hope that city council askaris wont harass us. By the way have you come up with a list of places? On 22 February 2012 21:29, Michelle Shivu shivumic...@gmail.com wrote: @steve i had earlier asked whether: if i needed to be part of the outreach (going to egerton for open source day) what do i have to undertake , any signing up or anything...what does it entail.. please enlighten me so that if i can, i can be part of it. good evening On 22 February 2012 17:24, Oliver Stegen i...@oliverstegen.net wrote: Hi guys, This sounds more ridiculous by the minute. Do you want to hire me as a tourist who's taking pictures? :) Unfortunately, I wouldn't be available tomorrow (Thursday) in order to accompany you to the City Council to get a tourist photo permission (I'm sure that tourists don't need a letter from the ministry of anywhere). But on Saturday, I'd be happy to accompany you (of course, I'm only one non-African-looking guy, so if you have 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. Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] First Outreach 2012 to Mombasa Hello, I already have made arrangements to have our local chapter T-shirt by the end of this week. On another note, I passed by the City council of Nairobi to ascertain the results of my request to allow Wikipedians to take photos around Nairobi on the coming weekend only to find shock on me!! They told me that I needed a letter from the Ministry of Information and communication. On asking them why? They quipped that I must have it so that it can be attached to my earlier request. I would love to be part of the team headed to Mombasa for the outreach activity. PS: There is another invitation by the Egerton University to attend an Open Source day they will be having on 10th March 2011. Regards, Stephen. wrote: Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better My Blog | @uwanja | Facebook | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Saturday Photo Walk
@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. Your offer to assist us with this is exceedingly valued Oliver. If you will be available on Friday to go and get that tourist permit, then that would be perfect since the offices at the City Council remain shut on the weekends. PS: Mitchell, Let’s stick to the topics on the thread. ? Stephen On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Kosgei Isaac kipchogekos...@gmail.comwrote: Hey About the photo walk lets just go on with it in the hope that city council askaris wont harass us. By the way have you come up with a list of places? On 22 February 2012 21:29, Michelle Shivu shivumic...@gmail.com wrote: @steve i had earlier asked whether: if i needed to be part of the outreach (going to egerton for open source day) what do i have to undertake , any signing up or anything...what does it entail.. please enlighten me so that if i can, i can be part of it. good evening On 22 February 2012 17:24, Oliver Stegen i...@oliverstegen.net wrote: Hi guys, This sounds more ridiculous by the minute. Do you want to hire me as a tourist who's taking pictures? :) Unfortunately, I wouldn't be available tomorrow (Thursday) in order to accompany you to the City Council to get a tourist photo permission (I'm sure that tourists don't need a letter from the ministry of anywhere). But on Saturday, I'd be happy to accompany you (of course, I'm only one non-African-looking guy, so if you have 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. Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] First Outreach 2012 to Mombasa Hello, I already have made arrangements to have our local chapter T-shirt by the end of this week. On another note, I passed by the City council of Nairobi to ascertain the results of my request to allow Wikipedians to take photos around Nairobi on the coming weekend only to find shock on me!! They told me that I needed a letter from the Ministry of Information and communication. On asking them why? They quipped that I must have it so that it can be attached to my earlier request. I would love to be part of the team headed to Mombasa for the outreach activity. PS: There is another invitation by the Egerton University to attend an Open Source day they will be having on 10th March 2011. Regards, Stephen. wrote: Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better My Blog | @uwanja | Facebook | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Photo Walk
Asaf, this fee is a legal fee. In fact other photo journalists pay for this and an official receipt from the City Council of Nairobi is issued. The KES 2600 caters for a permit to take photos within the council's municipality for a day. When we went there (with Oscar) we were told to pay the fee. We were hesitant to just pay and we explained the uniqueness and non-commercial nature of our undertaking. Since the boss who could give us a waiver was out on a meeting. The receptionist adviced that we write an official letter explaining the purpose of our photo walk and request for a waiver thereof. The results of our request shall be out on Monday or Tuesday. If we get a total waiver well and good and that's what we are hoping for. //Stephen On Feb 18, 2012 11:47 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Is this 2600 fee something official? Will you be getting a receipt? 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 lawyer and he adviced me it would be wise to notify the authorites of our undertaking considering the security status of our country courtesy of the invasion into Somalia. The Alshabab have been threatening to bomb the city and since we are a group of youths who shall be taking photos we might be mistaken to be counterparts of the Alshabab looking for the best buildings to attack. We sought advice from the OCPD Central police station today and the Urban Development Department at the city council of Nairobi. At the city Council of Nairobi, they advised that we are supposed to pay a fee of KES2,600. We talked to them and they told us to write a letter to request for a partial or full waiver since ours was not a commercial undertaking. As for the OCPD, he turned us down and he told us that he was too busy to handle our case ;( Planning to go and see him sometime this week or early next week. The project is still on as scheduled for 25th February, am just working to ensure everyone is safe and not harassed by the City Council Askaris [1] and the Regular police as well. //Stephen 1. City council, a den of corruption.http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=250446cid=159story=Why%20City%20Council%20court%20is%20a%20den%20of%20corruption On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: What exactly did this photographer say you need a press card for? I.e. what are you not allowed to photograph without a press card? (In general, my experience shows that most people, including government officials and professional photographers, have a fairly hazy knowledge of copyright law, and often repeat conventional wisdom statements without scrutiny. One of the things Wikimedians have been consistently good at, around the world, is finding out what the actual facts are, and making sure the public interest is served best, by not submitting to limitations that aren't actually there. -- so yes, it would behoove us to look at the written law. I'm sorry I don't have time to look into this myself. Do we have access to a friendly Kenyan lawyer who might be able to help us find out what the law says?) Asaf On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 7:39 AM, stephen wanjau wanjaus...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Nice people, I do hope that you are doing well. At the meet-up, we resolved to undertake the photo-walk on the Saturday of 25th February 2012 and not on the 18th as it had earlier been indicated. During our meet-up I networked with a photographer/ blogger who was in attendance and we dialogued about how we could make this photo walk a success in terms of the logistics involved. He informed me that he had been using images from commons as yet he never knew of the existence of a local community of Wikim(p)edians! From what he said, we are required by law to get Press cards from the affected ministry that deals with Journalism in Kenya, i.e. Ministry of Information and Communication. Another alternative that we had been given earlier by Kaburo as we were planning for Wikis takes Nairobi was to request for written permission from the City Council of Nairobi. I am kind of muddled by these two opinions because in Kenya there is freedom of panorama, one is allowed to take photos except at such places that are marked explicitly that you are not supposed to take photographs. Freedom of Panorama in Kenyahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Kenyaas highlighted on Commons. Anyone on this list who is conversant with this, I beg to be educated/ rectified so that I can go ahead with the planning for the photo-walk. Regards Stephen. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Outreach 2012
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 stuck as soon as we leave the premises.There is need to take them off the ground. Most of them will definitely lose heart and leave while the courageous and bold enough might opt to stay which is unlikely the case. My contribution on the meta are upcoming shortly. //Stephen On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Kosgei Isaac kipchogekos...@gmail.comwrote: @oslimoke,Tuko pamoja kakangu. Nafurahi kuona kwamba umekuwa katika mstari wa mbele kuimarisha shughuli zetu. Kila la heri na nakuahidi tutachangia pamoja. Feel good Friday on my part joh. Cheers On 17 February 2012 10:34, Limoke Oscar oslim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone,, I trust we are all well and the excitement and partying dust has settled following our recognition as the 39th Chapter. :-)Time to chatr way forawd and serious issues. So we all remember sometime last year we were planning for an Outreach to various campuses across Kenya to introduce students to the Culture and editing Wikipedia. Well, the first of such outreach is almost here with us and we have plans to visit a few campuses in Mombasa in early March along the Mozilla Kenya team. The details are still sketchy and I would appreciate your input and contribution into the same. You can find the Meat page for the same here : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya_Outreach_2012 PS: who was responsible for posting the Last Meetups minutes? Yours, -- Limoke Oscar, ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] WikiWomenCamp
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 http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY
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,Wikiedittors. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Nairobi_2 I hope to see you at the meet-up on Saturday. //Stephen. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Alex Wafula xelaw...@yahoo.com wrote: Wow, just got online today, WMKE all over the place! Great milestone, and definitely more to come; congrats guys! I'm still looking for Abbas' speech through the emails and already have a request for DJ raidar :) Alex -- ** ITS A PARTY... OFFICIAL WITH DJ RAIDAR IN THE HOUSE! Send your requests. David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.comwrote: David, That's just hilarious :) Isaac, Wow, that came as a pleasant surprise. I appreciate the compliments. All, Hope to see you tomorrow. After the treasurer's approval, I've ordered the cake. It's from the same baker that made our Wikipedia 10 cake. --Abbas. -- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:40:50 +0300 From: raidar...@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY And you know the best thing about this is that Isaac will not have his piece of cake on skype :) David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Kosgei Isaac kipchogekos...@gmail.comwrote: I am OK with the waiting. David, you rock man, thanks for all the efforts you are putting in. Greatly appreciated. Abbas I liked your morning note well written, reminds me of Obama's 2004 DNC address, I think you can give Obama a run for his money. On 09/02/2012, morine musyoka musyoka.mor...@gmail.com wrote: David we really appreciate,thanks. Morine. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:03 PM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Just to clarify, the public service club is a member's only sports club that I'm a member of and I'm allowed to have a few of my meetings, including this one For the celebration, its the ideal place. David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:57 PM, morine musyoka musyoka.mor...@gmail.com wrote: Ednah...al b thinking about that...am hoping aint working on sato.:-) On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ednah Kiome ednahkio...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, That waiting bit would be great so that we can celebrate together.Please do! Regards Ednah On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Oh... And remember I DJ too, I could bring some music... David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, The public service club could offer some services. A little catering and we could order a cake from a friend... short notice, but if given a go ahead, I could order. A nice cake would cost somewhere between 2500 to 4k. Let me know... David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: So some of us want a cake at the meetup. And it seems some people can't make it before 12pm/2pm. So, is it possible for us to wait for them (until 2.30pm?) so that they can experience this occassion with us as well? Kindly advise. --Abbas. From: deontemun...@hotmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:18:09 + Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY i'll definitely be there for the meet-up. Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:59:09 +0300 From: raidar...@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY Im 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 not be available for our meet-up this coming Saturday as it had earlier emerged. Nonetheless, there is some good news that a new venue has been established courtesy of David. After having a chat with him, he offered to accommodate WMKE at a Public Service Private facility that is located at Upper Hill adjacent to Visa place. To get there, go to Kencom then board buses headed to Kenyatta then alight at Visa place. PS: It is only the venue that has changed, meeting time is still at 0930am so make a point to be there in time. Regards, Stephen. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY
Yeah, Plus the foundation offered to procure one in the grant start up that we were awarded late last year. However, this is just a BTW - the major use of the chapter's camera is taking photos of notable structures and people that will be uploaded to Wikicommons under the CC license. Am not implying that the party is not notable;) As we prepare for tomorrow's meetup/party please remember of the photo walk scheduled for next weekend -- on a different thread. //Stephen Interim Treasurer, Wikimedia Kenya. On 2/10/12, Ednah Kiome ednahkio...@gmail.com wrote: A camera is needed for the party,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,Wikiedittors. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Nairobi_2 I hope to see you at the meet-up on Saturday. //Stephen. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Alex Wafula xelaw...@yahoo.com wrote: Wow, just got online today, WMKE all over the place! Great milestone, and definitely more to come; congrats guys! I'm still looking for Abbas' speech through the emails and already have a request for DJ raidar :) Alex ITS A PARTY... OFFICIAL WITH DJ RAIDAR IN THE HOUSE! Send your requests. David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: David, That's just hilarious :) Isaac, Wow, that came as a pleasant surprise. I appreciate the compliments. All, Hope to see you tomorrow. After the treasurer's approval, I've ordered the cake. It's from the same baker that made our Wikipedia 10 cake. --Abbas. Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:40:50 +0300 From: raidar...@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY And you know the best thing about this is that Isaac will not have his piece of cake on skype :) David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Kosgei Isaac kipchogekos...@gmail.com wrote: I am OK with the waiting. David, you rock man, thanks for all the efforts you are putting in. Greatly appreciated. Abbas I liked your morning note well written, reminds me of Obama's 2004 DNC address, I think you can give Obama a run for his money. On 09/02/2012, morine musyoka musyoka.mor...@gmail.com wrote: David we really appreciate,thanks. Morine. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:03 PM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Just to clarify, the public service club is a member's only sports club that I'm a member of and I'm allowed to have a few of my meetings, including this one For the celebration, its the ideal place. David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:57 PM, morine musyoka musyoka.mor...@gmail.com wrote: Ednah...al b thinking about that...am hoping aint working on sato.:-) On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ednah Kiome ednahkio...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, That waiting bit would be great so that we can celebrate together.Please do! Regards Ednah On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Oh... And remember I DJ too, I could bring some music... David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:49 PM, David Mugo raidar...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, The public service club could offer some services. A little catering and we could order a cake from a friend... short notice, but if given a go ahead, I could order. A nice cake would cost somewhere between 2500 to 4k. Let me know... David. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: So some of us want a cake at the meetup. And it seems some people can't make it before 12pm/2pm. So, is it possible for us to wait for them (until 2.30pm?) so that they can experience this occassion with us as well? Kindly advise. --Abbas. From: deontemun...@hotmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:18:09 + Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY i'll definitely be there for the meet-up. Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:59:09 +0300 From: raidar...@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY Im 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 not be available for our meet-up
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Bureaucrat access
Hello, Thank you Asaf for the privilege;) PS: David email me your preferred username. best, Stephen On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Oh, one crucial additional step: 8. after creating the account, go to http://wikimedia.or.ke/Special:UserRights, type in the user name you just created and click Edit User Groups, then check the checkbox enabled. This is required to let the user have write access to the wiki. I just reviewed all existing accounts and found some of them were not enabled. So if you couldn't edit the wiki previously, you should now be able to. Cheers, Asaf On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, folks. Back when we created the wiki http://wikimedia.or.ke/ for the future Wikimedia Kenya, we set Abbas and me as bureaucrats (meaning users with administrative privileges -- among which, the ability to create users in this closed wiki), just as a starting default. I have now made those of you who have been active on the wiki in the past 30 days bureaucrats on the wiki as well, so that requests for new users don't need to depend on Abbas and me. The new 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 around with the many things bureaucrats can do, to avoid creating unnecessary work. As a reminder, the way for bureaucrats to create new users for other people is: 1. Get the new user's e-mail, and let them pick their desired username. 2. Log in to wikimedia.or.ke with your own account 3. Under Toolbox in the left sidebar, pick Special Pages 4. Click Log in / Create account 5. Click the Create an account link 6. Type in the user's desired username and e-mail. DO NOT type in anything for the password. 7. Click the by e-mail button, NOT the create account button. An e-mail will be sent to the new user's address, with a link to complete the registration. Then the new user can pick their own password, and the world is at peace. P.S. I have created an account for Sarah Osano at her request. This is as good an opportunity to ask one of the bureaucrats for an account on the WMKE wiki, if you don't already have one! Be sure to specify the username you want. Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Internal-l] Congratulations to Wikimedia Kenya!
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
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 conference. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/berlin-conference Please feel free to populate it and hope to discuss more about the state of our chapter. PS: Abbas, I would like to have the contacts on the forms that I remitted to you after the Wikipedia for schools in Nyeri, If possible please bring the forms on Saturday's meet-up. regards, Stephen. -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] SATURDAY'S MEET-UP ON 11TH FEBRUARY
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] Urgent :Chapters Conference Represenative inBerlin
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/Events/Chapters_Conference#Stephen_Wanjau Regards, Stephen ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
[Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship applications
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 scholarship applications To: wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Greetings all and sundry! Scholarship applications are now being accepted for Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C. The application window will be one month (through February 16). To learn more about Wikimania scholarships, see http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, you can fill out the application form here: https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/ Good luck! Sage Ross Wikimedia DC ___ Wikimania-l mailing list wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- *Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better* My Blog http://uwanja.wordpress.com | @uwanja https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja| Facebook http://www.facebook.com/swanjau | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ___ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
