rupert.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, everyone.
To my mind, the way forward is to find a project at least some of you are
excited about, rather than make progress on the formalities. That project
can be anything at all -- organizing a regular meetup or edit-a-thon, a
photowalk, finishing the school curriculum update project so we can produce
a new offline Wikipedia file relevant for Kenya, etc.
It seems to me that there is no substitute for a core of _active editors_,
on either English[1] or Swahili Wikipedia[1]. That core would be the basis
for most of the other activities. For example, it's difficult to have
effective mass outreach if we can't connect newbies to _local_ editors with
at least some experience and interest in tutoring and supporting them on
their first steps, especially on the English Wikipedia which has very high
standards that are challenging and confusing to newbies.
So of the activities above, I would recommend thinking about ways to get
_you_, the core volunteers, more motivated about, or more _comfortable_
with, actual editing. A first step would be to identify what is the main
obstacle -- know-how, interesting topics to contribute on, access to source
material, etc., and then we can all think about how to remove that obstacle.
Another fun thing to try, if you can have meetups somewhere with reasonable
bandwidth (on campus? at the iHub?), you can schedule a Skype/Hangout with
different communities/chapters around to world to exchange experience and
learn about exciting ideas from other groups. In my experience, it's a fun
and interesting way to get [re-]motivated, and I'm sure a number of our
international colleagues would be happy to be the teleconferenced guests at
those meetings.
Just my two cents. :)
Asaf
[1] English Wikipedia has about 35 active editors (5 edits a month or more)
in Kenya. That's a good number to work with, but it seems to me (do correct
me if I'm wrong) that most of those regular editors are outside this mailing
list. If we could actually be reasonable certain we have some of those
active editors interested in supporting additional editor recruitment, we'd
be in good shape. Source:
http://global-dev.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwp_ke_active (very slow load, sorry)
[2] Swahil Wikipedia has about 3-4 active editors (5 edits a month or more)
in Kenya, and about the same number in Tanzania. Source:
http://global-dev.wmflabs.org/graphs/swwp_active (again, very slow)
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Limoke Oscar <oslimoke(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Bence,
Thanks for your efforts and conecrns about the Chapter. Indeed we have
heard some concerted efforts to resuscitate the chapter and although not
much has come out of the meetings, we all are commited to saving the face
and rescuing of the once vibrant Chapter.
We are still trying to figure out the best way . Perhaps restarting the
whole membership thing has been mooted but nothing has come out yet. Would
be best if we reassign new roles and ownershipsamongs ourselves to restart
it.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
Sorry to bring up again, but it would be useful to know what others (e.g.
Alex, Limoke, etc) think about the future of the chapter?
Best regards,
Bence
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Bence Damokos <bdamokos(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Abbas,
Thanks for responding. For the record, Limoke also responded quite
quickly (apparently my letter ended up in the spam folder of many).
I was just about to reply Limoke that we would not want the efforts
extended so far to go to waste, but we could only recommend the extension of
recognition to Sue if there was some effort or plan in place to get the
chapter together and back on track both in terms of the bureaucratic process
of founding and as far as possible in having a strong, active community
again.
Best regards,
Bence
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Dear Bence,
>
> (Sorry for the very delayed response: I had hoped that a more
> appropriate person would have made an ''official'' response.)
>
> WRT the Chapter founding, I recently (last week, I think) connected
> Alex with the lawyer, to resume the legal process, which was halted after
> the misappropriation saga.
>
> I don't expect Alex (and Alex can correct me if I'm wrong) to have made
> any progress thus far, as things are still moving sluggishly after the
> (organizational) hiatus.
>
> Thanks,
> Abbas.
>
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