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Subject: Re: Updates (Email scheduled for 9pm had to come early. )
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:42:21 +0000
From: Georgina Ofori-Dwumfuo <georg.mis(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>, K Anane <ananeappiahkd(a)gmail.com>
The second category i referred to is this;
2. There are members who also love open
source and creating and distributing free
educational and informational resources.
On 8/18/12, Sandister Tei <sandister(a)sandistertei.com> 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 here
http://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 page
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Planning_Wikimedia_Ghana and 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_Contest
with 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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