Hi ,
As a follow up to the board elections to be held on 31st we want to
call up for bios.
The bios should include a brief introduction ,when you joined ,the
projects you have been involved ,a 5 point plan for WMKE /what you
would want implemented when sitting @ the board,any other thing you
want members to know.
kindly post you bio in the link provided below
http://wikimedia.or.ke/Board_Elections/nominees_bios
Thanks & Good luck
Branton Obwari
For the Electoral team
I just upgraded the WMKE wiki from MediaWiki 1.17 to 1.18.
Please report any issues.
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Regards
Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
A lady who is hardworking, disciplined and ready to know more and meet many new friends also an IT expert who is interested with joining this program for as long as it takes.
this will encourage me use the knowledge i have and also learn more about mailing, editing and linking e.t.c.
Love travelling, adventuring, reading, watching movies, making friends, swiming and hiking.
I believe in giving my best to receive the best.
Hello Nice People,
I would first like to congratulate me then you who in one way or the other
had a contribution to the making of the newest Wikimedia Chapter.
I have created the pad below to start populating it with stuff about our
chapter events and projects since the previous chapter's conference.
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/berlin-conference
Please feel free to populate it and hope to discuss more about the state of
our chapter.
PS: Abbas, I would like to have the contacts on the forms that I remitted
to you after the Wikipedia for schools in Nyeri, If possible please bring
the forms on Saturday's meet-up.
regards,
Stephen.
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This message represents the official view of the voices in my head.
Dear friends of Wikimedia Kenya!
I am looking forward meeting some of you in Berlin in two weeks - at the
Wikimedia Conference aka. Chapters Meeting.
Since 2009 some chapter representatives have been thinking about how to
better improve the collaboration between chapters and how the governance
of Wikimedia Chapters should work without being too dependant on the
Wikimedia Foundation and their will.
Since the end of 2011 a plan has been created and discussed how we could
achieve this by having a "Chapters Council", an association which acts
as a common body of all chapters which want to become a member. Within
this council chapter representatives would discuss and decide together
on inter-chapter topics.
The discussion is going on in Meta wiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Council
At the Finance Meeting in Paris by the end of February we discussed that
we want to take the opportunity and move forward so we can decide on the
Chapters Council in Berlin.
This includes that chapter representatives discuss the topic with their
members and boards and take a decision whether they want to support and
be part of the Chapters Association or not (yet). Important for the
discussions in Berlin is that the chapter representatives have a mandate
to discuss the charta there and be able to make official statements on
behalf of their chapter.
I know that Wikimedia Kenya doesn't have a board yet but I hope that you
will have the time to discuss the topic and participate at the
discussions in Berlin.
If this is not possible or too early for you to decide - no problem.
Chapters can always decide to join later after they have observed the
process and developed themselves.
At least I want to make sure that we don't leave you behind and catch
you by surprise when you encounter this discussion in Berlin. And of
course it is helpful to the establishment of the new association if we
have the support by many chapters.
Here is a list of supporting chapters and their official statements:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Council/Chapter_Support
As you see you can also stay neutral or even oppose the idea. That's
perfectly ok.
/Manuel
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Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge
www.wikimedia.ch
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/
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Hallo Wikimedians,
It's been a while but I hope we are all well. This serves as a reminder
that we are supposed to have board elections so that we can proceed with
the registration process of being a fully recognized chapter. Furthermore,
I am availing myself to be part of the team of members that will overlook
the election process. I'll be in contact with all the acting board members
on how we shall see this activity come to pass successfully. Just for the
record, on our last meet up we planned to have these elections on the 17th
of this month. However, this seems to be to soon if we are to have a well
planned and executed election. I would like to suggest that we plan for the
31st of March since Ihub had offered space for WikimediaKE on the last
Saturday of every month.
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