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Subject: Re: Updates (Email scheduled for 9pm had to come early. )
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:35:40 +0000
From: Kweku Darteh Anane-Appiah <ananeappiahkd(a)gmail.com>
To: Sandister Tei <sandister(a)sandistertei.com>
CC: Ato <abocco(a)gmail.com>om>, Rex <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>om>, Harold
Ankrah <no1harold(a)gmail.com>om>, "georg.mis(a)gmail.com"
<georg.mis(a)gmail.com>
Hi Dede and all,
Sorry this comes a late hour... Unfortunately, I no longer have access
to a phone with wassup so I will be missing in action on that front; at
least for a couple of weeks until I can get a proper replacement to my
phone. Again, I was busy over last week and the weekend with little
access to internet hence I could not response to this mail until now.
Realistically, I will love to offer my services in the second category
of members (in fact the second option for all two categories) and
guarantee a minimum of 8 hours a week towards editing; that is 5 hours a
week and the remaining 3 split evenly over the weekend. Editing is my
strongest suite hence my offer however my resolve comes with some
baselines the most prominent being; ideally, a 24 hour deadline for each
piece to allow for a more holistic output and presentation; I may
dedicate an hour of actual sit-down time to edit but I will definitely
spend more time interacting with piece before and after that hour prior
to rendering in the final piece.
Additionally, I would love to dedicate another 2 hours, each week,
towards content/ editorial development and resolving general community
issues. This brings my total weekly participation time to 10 hours a
week - for now.
Now in response to earlier discussions on partnership prospects with
educational institutions, I happen to know the new dean of students for
Ashesi University who just happens to be a close friend. I could talk to
her about some prospects for engagement. My pitch will delve into the
amazing opportunity this will give Ashesi to nurture the minds and
knowledge base of wiki-readers on the Ghanaian situation by providing
content for the platform. I know they have a class of some sort which
reviews and discusses new trends and news in and out of Ghana and how
these affect the socio-economic growth of the country as a whole. We
could get them to transcribe their daily discussions which we in turn
can revert into solid content linked with reputable sources...
The prospects are certainly endless and just a phone call away - that is
once the team agrees... In fact *Ato *can be a valuable resource here
since he has a good relationship with the President of the University,
Patrick Awuah.
Do revert your thoughts and comments...
I bid you all a most productive day.
Sincerely,
Kweku Darteh ANANE-APPIAH
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On Aug 18, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Sandister Tei wrote:
Hi all,
I assume you saw my Whatsapp message and so you are updated. Until we
start having meetings and affording them, we would have to resort to
long emails.
*About Mailing list*
*
*
The emails will now come from mailing list given us by Wikimedia.
Our coordinator Rexford and co handle this list and so they will be
the best people to tell us what we gain from mailing lists and other
how tos about it.
*@Rexford* *@Oral*kindly enlighten us if you can especially with what
that “Digest” means
*Discussion and Talk pages*
*
*
I am happy to announce that we are really involved in a very
resourceful project. Wikimedia has all the infrastructure we need to
run our projects smoothly but the problem is there are so many we miss
some at times.
Let me introduce to you user talk and discussion pages. I have done
some explanations
herehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Planning_Wikimedia_Ghana
Please let’s read. The key to figuring out Wikimedia is to read. This
will now be our discussion grounds. I learnt Wikimedia monitors all
these pages to see our progress and involvement.
*
*
*@Ato,*you articulated some views in the chatroom about how we can get
work done. I am inviting you to go to this
pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Planning_Wikimedia_Ghanaand
put that suggestion under the “Suggestions” segment. I will be glad to
assist with any questions you have.
*Membership*
*
*
It has come to my notice since joining Wiki that there are*3 types of
motivation*for this project. This is not an official categorization
but I see it.
1.They are members who like Wikimedia like to be associated with this
big name. Beyond that, they do nothing.
2.There are members who also love open source and creating and
distributing free educational and informational resources.
3.There are also others who are experts in a field and they want to
lend their expertise to chapter formation without necessarily
contributing or editing often.
Guys, as Acting operations manager, I can only sweat and dedicate
myself to those joining Planning Wikimedia for the categories 2 and 3.
*@Ato and@ Oral*have made it clear they belong to 3. Ato is our Act.
Advisor and Oral is Act. PRO
*@Georgina @Harold @Kweku*determine where you belong/ what you can
offer. So I know what to expect from you
I have also noticed once again that there are 2 levels of involvement
with the little research I have done.
1.Some Wikimedians are hard core editors/ contributors. Some have
edited and contributed 100000s of times. Amazing stuff. Some of such
gurus are NOT even members of a chapter.
2.Some people have just 100s of edits yet they work hard to hold the
chapter’s activities together in ensuring that 1000000s of edits come
from the countries where their chapter is based.
Please note that the Wikimedia Ghana’s chapter’s vision is to nuturing
people like 1. So*@Georgina @Harold @Kweku*y’all have been here some
days now. If you want to join 2., make me aware so that I can
integrate you in to administration properly.
I am diving into the About My School Project
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana/About_My_School_Contestwith
all intensity. I need people who have sacrificed themselves that I can
call on. I don’t want to chase anyone.
Regards,
*Sandister Tei*
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