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

2012-07-03 Thread Limoke Oscar
s 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 >

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

2012-07-03 Thread stephen wanjau
.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

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

2012-07-03 Thread Abbas Mahmood
ht 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 o

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

2012-07-02 Thread Stephen Wanjau
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, Custom

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

2012-06-18 Thread Iolanda Pensa
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

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

2012-06-18 Thread Abbas Mahmood
s are made. SincerelyAbbas Mahmood. From: stevewan...@wikimedia.or.ke Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:47:32 +0300 To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya National Archives and other GLAM projects Hello, My reply is in line. Being on the board doesn't denote

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

2012-06-18 Thread Limoke Oscar
Steve, Not to be mean nor evil, by I hate lengthy emails I actually meant yea If we could keep the emails shorter and on point, we could make more meaningful communication. Lots of people here have dozens of other engagements that involve email exchange and replyng to the same thread in multiple w

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

2012-06-18 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello, On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:45 AM, David Mugo wrote: > @Oscar, > > I like your attitude. We would not exist as a group if everyone knew what > they needed to know. Wikipedia is about sharing information/knowledge and > the more channels we use the better. We are the human Wiki in this case,

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

2012-06-18 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello! My reply follows your email. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Limoke Oscar wrote: > And I hate lengthy emails like this ones here :-) > Wikipedians like to write. BTW, Are on the internal mailing list? (Asking for a friend again) > > Good points folks though, I hope we all agree to th

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

2012-06-18 Thread Stephen Wanjau
Hello, My reply is in line. Being on the board doesn't denote that whichever communications commencing from me is the position or stance of the chapter whatsoever, unless otherwise unambiguously stated in the start section of my E-mail. Clear? My dear Steve, > > Waswahili wasema subira huvuta h

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

2012-06-17 Thread Andrew maina
The National Archives idea is fantastic. When I created the Bernard Mate page on wikipedia, I stumbled on some links explicitly referring to sources at the Kenya National Archives.. Always suspected since then that the place could be of massive use for digging up information on important histor

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

2012-06-17 Thread David Mugo
@Oscar, I like your attitude. We would not exist as a group if everyone knew what they needed to know. Wikipedia is about sharing information/knowledge and the more channels we use the better. We are the human Wiki in this case, let them know. David. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Limoke Oscar

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

2012-06-17 Thread Limoke Oscar
And I hate lengthy emails like this ones here :-) Good points folks though, I hope we all agree to that. Steve rem you too dint know anything about Wikipedia and mailing lists before I recruited you :-), and so many of us. And I guess thats why we exist as WMKE Cheers, ___

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

2012-06-17 Thread Abbas Mahmood
My dear Steve, Waswahili wasema subira huvuta heri. I am going to speak about the Kenya National Archives, because it's the partnership that I'm focused on. Yes, we have been moving at a sluggish rate. Sometimes it's my fault, sometimes it's theirs. But, IMO, most partnerships don't take overni