Excellent, it's settled then.
I'll proceed off-list with Limoke.
Thanks for the timely responses! Much appreciated.
P.S. Andrew Owens of Wikimedia Australia, who has recently run a successful
Wikipedia Takes The City event in Perth (Western Australia), has volunteered
to help WMKE with Wikipedia Takes Nairobi planning.
Asaf
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Fine with me too.
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Abbas Mahmood,
Learners' Voice 2011 Member: World Innovation Summit for Education
http://www.wise-qatar.org
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:14:40 -0700
From: xelawafs(a)yahoo.com
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Setswana Wikipedia
Challenge
I'm super cool with Limoke going, so +1
Alex.
On Mon Sep 19th, 2011 10:26 AM PDT Limoke Oscar wrote:
>Hey,
>I would love to should Abbas and Alex permit.Since the timelines are
pretty
>tight,Will start I hope we agree ASAP on who
would go to allow time to
plan.
>Thanks,
>On Sep 19, 2011 7:26 PM, "Asaf Bartov" <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>> Hello, everyone.
>>
>> A couple of months ago I mentioned Google Nairobi's initiative to run
>> another Wikipedia Challenge in another African language. I asked for a
>> volunteer to train the judges and the participants, but then the
project
>was
>> put on the back burner for a while.
>>
>> So now it's back on, the dates are finalized, and the timeline is
actually
>> pretty tight. The language chosen is
Setswana, spoken in Botswana, and
the
>> judges training will take place in Botho
college on October 8th, with
the
>> participant training taking place one
week later, Oct 15th. The
>competition
>> will run 45 days.
>>
>> I apologize for not being able to give you more of an advance notice,
but
>> things have been a challenge to set up
and finalize, and I didn't want
to
>> keep changing dates on you.
>>
>> We need _one_ volunteer who:
>>
>> * had participated in the Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge
>> * has a passport
>> * can commit to flying to Botswana _twice_ to deliver one-day training
>> sessions on those two dates (Google to provide tickets and
accommodation)
>> * is interested in teaching people some
basics of Wikipedia editing
(the
>> interface, the syntax, talk pages, user
pages) and core principles
>(Neutral
>> Point of View, references, avoiding plagiarism and copyright
violations).
>>
>> For the participant training, I would like to *also* bring in one
South
>> African Wikipedian as trainer, but for
the judges training on the 8th,
>it'll
>> be just one trainer.
>>
>> I can help with some training materials from the "campus ambassadors"
>> training on the Outreach wiki, but the exact contents and order of the
>> training is really up to you.
>>
>> Note that the Setswana Wikipedia is completely inactive, and so this
>> Challenge is a good chance for it to breathe life into it. The up-side
of
> that
is that there won't be much community interference in what the
> participants do. ;)
>
> Please respond ASAP if you can make it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Asaf
> --
> Asaf Bartov
> Wikimedia Foundation
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