Oscar, I agree that we shouldn't give up, just not get our hopes too high
(335 registered users sounded much more promising than the relality of 3
marginally active users). If you can find a contact in your archives, all
the better!
Cheers,
Oliver (aka BT)
-----Original Message-----
From: Limoke Oscar [mailto:oslimoke@gmail.com]
Sent: 25 April 2012 23:19
To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenyan Wiki
Lets not give ip,this guys tried to reach us after the KWC,will dig my
archives and see what and if i can get a contact point. Its worth
trying to link up with them and see what they are upto. Or even just
for a discussion....
This guys had an ambition just like ours: Sharing and making locally
relevant content available online.
On 4/25/12, stephen wanjau <stevewanjau(a)wikimedia.or.ke> wrote:
> Point noted BT.
>
> Seems it a project they jump started and somehow stalled ....
>
> A unique thing I noted about the wiki is that you have to request for
> an account and even upload ur CV!
>
> And I agree we cannot count on them since there is even no way of
> communicating with them.
>
>
> //Stephen.
>
> On 4/25/12, Oliver Stegen <info(a)oliverstegen.net> wrote:
>> Don't get your hopes up too soon, cf.
>>
http://www.kenya.or.ke/Special:ActiveUsers
>> Only 3 active users over the last 91 days with 4, 13 and 115 edits
>> respectively. Also, noone ever edited their user page, so without user
>> info,
>> we may not get to know who these guys are. Just saying!
>> Cheers,
>> Oliver (aka BT)
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stephen wanjau [mailto:stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke]
>>> Sent: 25 April 2012 16:57
>>> To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Kenyan Wiki
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Thats exactly what I quipped at Alex on chat once I saw this Wiki.
>>>
>>> They have 335 registered users, 2admins and 1 buraecrat...Active
>>> editors/contributors = 3....See [1] below.
>>>
>>>
>>> Seems this is a group of open source champions who know how mediawiki
>>> works...
>>>
>>> And yeah if possible we can talk about contributing to Wikipedia whose
>>> structure is mature and already well set.
>>>
>>> My two cents.
>>>
>>> //Stephen
>>>
>>> 1.
www.kenya.or.ke/Special:Statistics
>>>
>>> On 4/25/12, Limoke Oscar <oslimoke(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Thanks Steve,
>>> >
>>> > I 1st heard of this initiative sometimes in 2010 after the KWC
>>> > Challenge.seems the guys did something awesome.
>>> >
>>> > Question: is there a way we can work together with such folks to
>>> > enrich
>>> > Kenyan Content on wikipedia? we could even recruit them int our
>>> > chapter.....just saying
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:48 PM, stephen wanjau
>>> <stevewanjau(a)wikimedia.or.ke
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hello Folks,
>>> >>
>>> >> I came across this Website that is a Wiki and I thought it might
be
>>> worth
>>> >> sharing....
>>> >>
>>> >>
http://www.kenya.or.ke/Main_Page
>>> >>
>>> >> Seems a lot of effort has been put into it.
>>> >>
>>> >> //Stephen
>>> >>