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Subject: Re: Updates (Email scheduled for 9pm had to come early. )
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:42:52 +0000
From: Ato Ulzen-Appiah <abocco(a)gmail.com>
To: Kweku Darteh Anane-Appiah <ananeappiahkd(a)gmail.com>
CC: Sandister Tei <sandister(a)sandistertei.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>
Nice @ Kweku.
I didn't think of Ashesi before because I was really into Legon as per
their history department.
Did you mean Esi Ansah as dean? I think we should start with that
particular class and not with Ashesi as a whole though.
I am happy to talk to Patrick too.
- Ato.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Kweku Darteh Anane-Appiah
<ananeappiahkd(a)gmail.com <mailto:ananeappiahkd@gmail.com>> wrote:
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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