Great job Steve...i'm impressed. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:34 AM, stephen wanjau <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello Nice People, > > Am putting my pen to purpose to enlighten you of what conspired in the > > Museum collaboration follow up meeting on 19th March 2012. We had an > > inordinate meet up with the Railways Museum boss over lunch a day gone > > by in Nairobi. It is good to learn that there are some guys who know about > > Wikipedia and telling them that they can edit is a spark! > > > As all of you know Wikipedia is the best way to get Kenya and this Dark > > Continent onto the digital map. If your subject is notable then we are > good > > to go on Wikipedia and rest assured that anyone searching for that matter > > will definitely get it whenever they do a search on Google, if not the > first search > > result, then it will be on the top 5. > > > Of course the museum boss had worries about releasing the museum content > > online for use for free. We advised him this is the best step to get known > all over > > the world of what they have to offer to guests. Having the eye catchers on > Wikicommons > > will only attract more visitors and share information. We cited examples > of other > > Museums in Britain and elsewhere in the World that are doing such fruitful > partnerships. > > We also told him keeping the information there is kind of ‘selfish’ since > even most citizens > > of this nation do not know about the artifacts in this museum. He was > quick to note that > > schools come from all over Kenya to learn about the Kenya-Uganda railway > that was formally > > known as East African Railway since the information is available nowhere > else- either online > > or offline (except the museum). The article about this on Wikipedia is > just but a stub [1] ;( > > We definitely talked about how the museum benefits from this to get him > on-board - His staff > > will learn to edit Wikipedia since we will not have a Wikipedian there to > stay but maybe for a > > short while. Sharing free knowledge is also a great feeling! > > > He told us he has volumes of documentation/tapes that bear such facts > lying at the Museum. > > After lunch we ensued to the Museum where he showed us around for a > tip-off of what we could > > get valuable from the Museum. The largest working locomotive steam engine > is preserved at this > > museum and guys fly in to come and view this magnanimous machine and even > engineers fly in > > to repair it. The plans/drawings of the outlook of the engine are also > well-kept there which I > > presume should be on commons. > > > All in all it was a fruitful meeting and he told us to draft a proposal > explicitly elucidating each > > bit and piece of what we need-except dough;) , what we expect from the > museum, how the > > museum shall benefit and how Wikipedia shall gain. Abbas and Alex by now > have volunteered > > to get this document and hopefully deliver it next week at the Museum. > Anyone else who would > > like to do so is welcome to do this – I will post the link to Meta once we > start this. We told him > > we can have Wikipedians coming by with backdoor passes to come and edit > stuff about the > > museum once in a while and so on…… > > I am happy this far of the enthusiasm to have this content on line and I > have faith that other museums > > in Kenya shall follow suit. A map of all museums that we have in Kenya [2] > > > > > > Regards, > > Stephen. > > 1. 1. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Railways_and_Harbours_Corporation > > 2. 2. http://kenyaplaces.info/ > > > -- > *"Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better"* > <http://uwanja.wordpress.com> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaKE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake > >
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