[Wikimedia Kenya] Setswana Wikipedia Challenge - WikimediaKE

19 Sep 2011

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
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    Asaf Bartov
    Wikimedia Foundation