sounds like good news! Having an official list is progress definitely - good work!

Thank you Lodewijk.

I would like to note however that in most countries, the amount of monuments is higher - to make it really easy for any potential participant to find a monument nearby. I do understand however that this is different in Kenya - which is too bad but that is life. With 277 monuments it should be very doable to get a photo of every single one of them. The question that we discussed in Berlin seems most important to answer first: is the topic 'monuments' interesting enough for Kenyans to participate in such a photo contest?

IMO, the topic monuments is interesting enough because from the list that we acquired we also learnt of new monuments that we never knew were demarcated as sites and monuments! just as you and Tomasz told us in Berlin. And barely 10 of this are on commons so we have an assignment there plus there are no articles about most of them yet there is info off-line stored by the museum about them. The museum (from which we fetched the list) was willing to give this information at the time we needed it. First things first though, of the 277, only ~100 are in Nairobi which is the city in which Wikimedia Kenya's activities are centered. Moreover, most if not all members of Wikimedia Kenya reside near Nairobi where these monuments are located. We can cover the whole 100 before we look into the remaining on the list because some of them are located 500+ kilometers from Nairobi which would be almost impossible to cover for now since we also a small team of active members.

Our deliberations at a previous board meeting, was the possibility of doing a Wiki Takes Universities whereby university students would compete to have the best features of their universities on commons, be it reputable lecture halls for distinct reasons, monuments inside the university, outstanding structures in the University etc etc

If you would still like to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments, I would like to urge you however to start as soon as possible with the organization. It is already June (well, almost) and that leaves only three months before the actual contest starts.

Yes, we are behind schedule, just making sure we upholding the African timers rule;)

Besides that, I have been connecting some dots here and there from our previous Wikipedia Takes Nairobi page to come up with our commons planning page here which is under construction. We also had created a facebook fan-page for Wikipedia Takes Nairobi which we can re-use. I understand we need to move to wikilovesmonuments.co.ke which is not yet set or planned yet.

The Monuments list is also coming up on Wikipedia with requested photos tags.

If there's any way we can help you, please let me know.

Respond to this email:)

Thats the progress AFAIK, in case I have left something out (which is unlikely) highlight it here.As you all have noted there is dire need to give a little more attention to this subject if at all we are to participate in WLM 2012 edition in September which is 78 days away. Interested parties to that project can add their names here.

A hopeful,
Stephen.

2012/5/29 Ann Njeri <njeriannk@gmail.com>

Good Job Alex and Steve,
maybe the members could also get started on getting those pictures of the monuments or we could go ahead and start the competition really soon... 277 seems more than enough to me...

On Tue, ay 29, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Alex Wafula <xelawafs@gmail.com> wrote:

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 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 getti 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

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