[Wikimedia Kenya] Coast Outreach Updates

2012-03-05 Thread Limoke Oscar
Hi , So we had a great and eventful outreach in Mombasa over the weekend where we met with guys from Mombasa IT society. Mozilla Kenya Community and Wikimedia Kenya delivered interesting talks to the enthusiastic audience of mostly IT profession and students drawn from various Universities. It wa

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Coast Outreach Updates

2012-03-05 Thread Abbas Mahmood
Thanks for the report Oscar. May I ask: how many people turned up? Plus during your free time, it might be great if you'd wikify this report onto our website (with more details such as turnover, program, pictures, date and location.) Otherwise, thanks for representing us well. --Abbas. Date: Mo

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Coast Outreach Updates

2012-03-05 Thread Limoke Oscar
Abbas, Yea sure I will wikify and offer much details of the Outreach. Consider this a preliminary report :-) We had a turnover of about 40. Regards, -- Limoke Oscar, "*point me to the destiny,and I will curve my own path to it *" ___ WikimediaKE mai

[Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-03-05 Thread Abbas Mahmood
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 n

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

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

[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: [Kiwix-testing] [KIWIX] New version of Kiwix for Sugar

2012-03-05 Thread Jessie Wild
Forwarding this information about ZIM reader Kiwix, which is the reader commonly used for the Offline Wikipedia projects. Many of you on these lists I know have connections to both OLPC and/or Offline Wikipedia, so I thought that you might at a minimum interested in the update and hopefully also i

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum

2012-03-05 Thread Jessie Wild
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

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

2012-03-05 Thread stephen wanjau
[image: WordPress] My latest post:39th Chapter of the Wikimedia FoundationToday we find ourselves today in the midst of an exciting time. Discussions of the precedences th... Read more