Hi all,
During the Berlin Conference, we committed Wikimedia Kenya to an intent to
join the Chapters Council (Also referred to as the Wikimedia Chapters
Association - WCA) by signing the Berlin Agreement [1]
Now a committee of 4 members with equal powers (WCA Interim Secretariat)
selected to hold the position of interim secretary general for WCA have
just published a draft for the WCA standing orders as explained in the
forward below. We are to select a representative to the association's
council.
In my opinion, our representative should be someone familiar with the
runnings of other chapters and the Wikimedia Movement in general and
available to followup on WCA online and physical meetups and discussions so
as to give our chapter updates of the same. Being a Board member is a plus *but
not necessary*.
Any volunteers/nominees?
cheers,
Alex
[1].https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Agreement
Hi All,
> The WCA Interim-Secretariat has published a draft for the WCA standing
> orders at:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Standing_Ord…
>
> With this, we complete what we think is enough information to formally
> join the association. At this point we ask the chapters to ratify the
> charter outlined in Berlin and select their representatives to the
> association's council. A definition of the representative roles is outlined
> in the standing orders. Do note that this draft, subject to suggested
> amendments will be voted upon in the first council meeting at Wikimania.
>
> We know that important information such as the financial obligations are
> still missing. In any case, financial obligations will only be imposed by a
> council resolution. We also understand that your chapter board may only be
> in state to join provisionally, with regard to a later decision by other
> organs in your chapter
>
> Regards,
> Tomer Ashur on behalf of the WCA interim-secretariat
>
The National Archives idea is fantastic. When I created the Bernard Mate page on wikipedia, I stumbled on some links explicitly referring to sources at the Kenya National Archives.. Always suspected since then that the place could be of massive use for digging up information on important historical events, people and places that predate the internet.
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 8:20 AM MSKS Stephen Wanjau wrote:
>Hello Folks!
>
>I have been physically following up on the subject of this email (together
>with Abbas and Alex) for sometime now and it seems the logistics and the
>speed with which these institutions are planning this are so slow that I
>feel I cant wait any longer. Those of you who have worked in the Kenyan
>government or for the Kenyan government definitely understand my concerns
>regarding the periods that they would take to decide on such a simple thing
>on what to do - probably call an AGM of the stakeholders.
>
>In most of the cases, these guys do not understand the online stuff or even
>how the internet works let alone Wikipedia (which is our work anyway). At
>the end they will come to appreciate that it is a good thing - which it is
>always is.There was a time when we visited the Kenya Railways museum and
>the curator there was always confusing their institutional website with
>Wikipedia. He thought Wikipedians job is to improve organizational
>websites! we clarified and made it clear about this and on the next meeting
>he was at it again!
>
>On our meeting with another directorate of the National Museums of Kenya,
>he asked whether he could find Wikipedia on Google search. the exact
>conversation was as below.
>
>*Alex*: Hello, My name is Alex and am here with my colleague Steve and we
>> work at Wikipedia. Wikipedia is ...blah blah blah....
>>
>> *Museum directorate*: Do you mean if I search Wikipedia on Google I will
>> find it? (Was just hilarious:)
>>
>>
>Personally, I have not spoken to Kenya Archives about GLAM (though Abbas
>did). But I think we should just go ahead and organize editathons at this
>premises and this is why.
>
>On Sunday 17th 2012 I was to meet with a friend in town who was running
>late and so I decided to part with 50 Kenyan shillings ($0.5) and enter the
>premise (Kenya National Archives) just to see what it holds. Plus I did not
>want to stand along the streets or sit on the benches due to the frequent
>IED attacks in Nairobi. It is rich in artifacts and even books about
>history of Kenya, royal visits to Kenya, Kenyatta's famous chair and to
>crown it all they have a library with articles about all these treasures.
>The receptionist in fact encouraged me to take photos with a camera even
>before I asked for permission. She even encouraged me to become a member of
>their library and I only needed to part with 200 KES for a year as
>subscription to access the material plus the artifacts of course.
>
>My question is, can't we pay for this subscription and start using the
>library to write articles about Kenya now that they have offline references
>there? Probably on Weekends or even weekdays depending on the time one is
>free. I think the chapter can cushion the subscriptions if that would
>hinder any Wikipedian from accessing the facility. The internet shall
>definitely be provided.
>
>Kenya is still dark and still in the dark continent. Can't we illuminate it
>with some light......?
>
>My thoughts.
>
>//Stephen
>--
>Wikimedia Kenya
>Board Member & Treasurer
Hello nice people!
In April 2012 immediately after we Boeing-ed (or is it jet back) from
Berlin. We had awesome tweets and re-tweets
with some WMKE members about the need to have a Wikimedia Kenya blog.
See images at [1] and [2] below.
First, I endorse this idea and I hope that way we will have all our updates
and progress in what we are doing
in an elaborate manner and style. Emails are not that refined especially to
new members and to the
international community who are part of this list and the whole Wikimedia
fraternity.
Secondly, we will request to join chapters
planet<http://www.chaptersplanet.org/>which aims to facilitate
information sharing about the work of
the Wikimedia chapters
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters>and the Wikimedia
Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org> by aggregating their blog feeds
in one place and providing
translation services.
This way other chapters will know what we are doing and we will also get
free translation services to other languages
like Chinese now that they are building Thika road and they need to know
about Wikimedia Kenya:).
(Decided to use Chinese as an example)
For my part, it will be a part of my signature in all emails and where
necessary point to it if an email am writing
has a blog post up for clarity and further reading which I will definitely
help. See [3].
Looking forward to your feedback about this.
1.
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/swanjau/7377793604/in/set-7215763014060721…
2.
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/swanjau/7377794504/in/set-7215763014060721…
3. It will really really help.
regards,
Stephen
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Wikimedia Kenya
Board Member & Treasurer
Hi all,
Like last year, I will be presenting, together with Deror Lin, the coolest
projects of the Wikimedia chapters. I hope you could (together) try to
determine your coolest three projects of the past year (between Wikimania
2011 and Wikimania 2012), and have someone enter that in this form
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dENaVEUybm1OaEJZYkYtSz…
.
Please use a very broad definition of 'coolness' because experience learns
that chapters vastly underestimate that. Wikimeets can be counted as cool!
I hope you can fill it out in the next three days.
Looking forward to your submission,
Lodewijk
Hey everyone!
Sorry for cross posting.
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Hello!
Sorry for cross posting.
Translators needed to translate the May 2012 Wikimedia highlights. It is
also a nice chance to know the status and progress of the foundation plus
how the media wiki translation
extension<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate>works.
In case you encounter any difficulties feel free to contact me.
//Stephen
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From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:12 AM
Subject: [Translators-l] Translations wanted for May 2012 Wikimedia
Highlights
To: Wikimedia Translators <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
as every month, translations are wanted for the new edition of the
"Wikimedia Highlights", consisting of the most relevant information
from the Foundation's general and technical monthly reports for April,
with a short selection of other important news from the Wikimedia
movement. Please consider helping non-English-language Wikimedia
communities to stay updated on the most important WMF activities,
MediaWiki development work and other international news from the past
month, by providing a translation at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012
For Danish, German, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian
(Bokmål), Dutch, Polish, Vietnamese, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian,
Macedonian, Tamil and Turkish, it is useful to compare the earlier
translations (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights#Previous_issues
), as the "Data and Trends" and "Financials" sections contain a lot of
recurring vocabulary.
As usual, it is planned to announce the translations - i.e.those which
have been completed at that point - on the general
Wikimedia announcements list Wikimediaannounce-l, on Wednesday, June
20. Of course translations will still be welcome after that
announcement.
We are also posting the translated versions as language- and
country-targeted updates of the official Wikipedia Facebook account,
which reaches a large audience, and recently started promoting them on
other social media channels as well (e.g.
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/201975842472067072 ).
Many thanks!
Regards,
Stephen.
Wikimedia Kenya
Board Member & Treasurer
Hi all,
So as a build up from action items on Saturday's meetup, We've (Steve and
I) managed to get a list of sites and monuments from the National Museums
of Kenya <http://www.museums.or.ke/> totaling up to around 277 throughout
Kenya.
Now the list comprises of gazetted sites and monuments meaning they are
legally recognized and protected. From our discussions with the Museum's
directorate of sites and monuments, there are other un -
gazetted/"discovered" monuments going to the thousand that the museum is
working to get on their list. The Museum also has documentation of several
of the items on the list so getting articles once we hace pictures is also
a high potential
So the question remains is whether we have enough to proceed with
organizing a Wiki Loves Monnuments competition. Though I think whether or
not we do, we should still have a goal of getting items on the list on
Commons and Wikipedia.
cheers,
Alex
Ff
Ann Njeri <njeriannk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Welcome Andrew, glad to have you on board<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Andrew maina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kimemiaandy@yahoo.com" target="_blank">kimemiaandy(a)yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
>Hello all. My name is Andrew Kimemia Maina and I'm interested in participating in this wikimedia. I'm currently living in Nyahururu Kenya. Looking forward to hearing from and meeting you all.<br>
><br>
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Manuel,
Please let me know if the site is currently hosted on a cpanel system that
I can automatically move with all databases, if not, advise on a migration.
You can email me access to the server so I can start off the migration
process.
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Adviser to Kenya's VP on Digital Media & Technology,
CEO & Board Chairman, Wikimedia Kenya
http://mugo.me
Twitter: @raidarmax