Hi to everybody on the KE-chapter,
Limoke: Dennis is very busy guy. It's happened to me as well when we were
processing the possibility of making the google challenge happens. He was
not replying the message promptly, but late. However, I don't think if don't
agree with your ideas because they expect to initiate a new project which
would held on EA's contries. So, let's just forgive him. On my side, I can't
do anything than suggestion since everything can be done only in Nairobea!
Cheers.
Wenu,
Muddyb
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:30:30 -0700
From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Latest Updates
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Thanks Abbas. It is exciting to see the Kenyan community moving toward
chapter formation.
A few suggestions/thoughts:
- Please do connect with members of ChapCom[1]; they can provide advice
based on their experience working with other countries on chapter
formation which might help you to avoid problems that other groups have
faced in the past
- The South Africa experience was helped by the support of people at
Africa Commons, who are an existing organization and have been able to
provide support; it might be good to connect with a similar organization
in Kenya
- If you need some funds to support the launch process (e.g., to fund
legal work or to organize a workshop), I can provide a grant to help
with these expenses; please follow up with me when you are ready
- If you are going to connect with the Omidyar Network, please keep me
in the loop; I know them well and they are already supporting Wikimedia;
it would be valuable to keep our communications open as multiple parts
of the Wikimedia movement connect with them
Kind regards,
Barry
[1] See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_committee
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_committee>
On 08/13/2010 02:44 AM, Oliver Stegen wrote:
Thanks, Abbas, for the update.
Knowing me, you will expect me to especially like points nos. 5 and 6
of the SA WMF chapter draft purposes:
? To build/facilitate/disseminate/provide knowledge in all SAfrican
languages
? To contribute to the development of local languages (all South
African languages)
Correspondingly, I've been looking at the Kikuyu wikipedia
(
http://ki.wikipedia.org <http://ki.wikipedia.org/>) which could use
some more support just like the Zulu one (
http://zu.wikipedia.org
<http://zu.wikipedia.org/>) in SA.
Just to add one more development on our own chapter network:
We expect to meet with Dr. Martin Njoroge at Kenyatta University
sometime between Sep 9 and 17 (date to be confirmed) in order to
discuss collaboration and potential opportunities for mutual support
(Dr. Njoroge is the Director of the Confucius Institute, organiser of
last month's international conference on multilingualism here in
Nairobi, and a member of the Multilingual Education Network East Africa).
Wenu katika kujenga elimu,
Oliver (aka BT)
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[mailto:wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Abbas
Mahmoud
*Sent:* 13 August 2010 11:24
*To:* Wikimedia Kenya
*Subject:* [Wikimedia Kenya] Latest Updates
Hello folks,
It's been a while since I last communicated with you guys, but I have
some updates regarding our chapter, the South African Chapter and
Wikimedia in general.
WIKIMEDIA KENYA
I recently received intelligence from Wikimedia Foundation about
Omidyar Network. Omidyar Network is an NGO that funds Wikimedia and
also gives financial assistance to companies in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia,
etc. I was also told that there could be a high possibility that they
could support our upcoming chapter get off the ground. I was given
some connections and I have contacted one of them and I am yet to
receive a reply.
Wimedia South Africa:
Also, Delphine was on holiday over the past couple of weeks so we
weren't able to communicate regarding our chapter's progress. However,
she recently went to a workshop held by the South African Chapter and
came up with a report. Please see the report at the end of this email.
I would also kindly urge you to subscribe to the South African mailing
list so that we can receive up-to-date intel of what our counterparts
are doing. Visit
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza to subscribe.
Also see their meta page for more info:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa.
On the news:
There has been an interesting saga where the FBI wants it's seal to be
removed from Wikipedia. Read the full story on the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html?_r=1. (This is a
must-read article:-)).
It is also interesting to note that the Swahili Wikipedia, now having
18,000 articles is now the largest African-language Wikipedia beating
the Africaans (South African) Wikipedia that has 15,000 articles!
That's all from me,
I am, yours,
Abbas Mahmoud.
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