Thanks Oscar, will do.
Cheers!
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From: Limoke Oscar <oslimoke(a)gmail.com>
To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
<wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 3:24:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] KU Meeting and HealthSpeaks Report
Hi Alex,
Thanks for comming on board.all that we so far have been involved is found in
the mailing list archive.Please check it out and see.We however are set to have
a meeting soon to discuss the isuues we discussed with KU and then have another
meeting with KU too.Prharps Abbas would let us know when and you should attend.
Cheers
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Alexander Wafula <xelawafs(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
I see you're doing great in getting the Wikipedia local chapter up and running.
I heard of the mailing list a bit late sooo yeah. Anyways, hi Oscar I'd really
appreciate it if you could give me an update of what's going on, I'd like to get
involved.
Cheers!
Alex!
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From: Limoke Oscar <oslimoke(a)gmail.com>
To: wikimediake-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org; The
discussion list for the
upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter. <wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, September 14, 2010 6:35:45 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] KU Meeting and HealthSpeaks Report
Hey guys,
It has been quite some time since we communicated as a community. Oliver and I
had a very successful meeting with Dr.Njoroge –The Director of the Confucius
Institute of Kenyatta University and a member of The Multilingual Education
Network of East Africa on 9th Sept. 2010.Dennis from Google was set to attend
but some official matter cropped up at the last minute and He could not make it.
We also were involved in the preparations of the Google Health Speaks and took
the participants through the Wikipedia tutorial. The details of each of the
above events are below:
KU Meeting
* Oliver had mentioned of our possible collaboration with the Confucius
Institute of Kenyatta University. In pursuance to that, we had a meeting with
Dr.Njoroge.We discussed various areas in which we could collaborate as a Local
Chapter with KU (as an institution) and with The Multilingual Education Network
of East Africa. Among the key issues are:
* A possible increase of local content online both in local languages and
other languages
* A possible collaboration with the Multilingual Education Network of EA to
enhance mother tongue curricular and content in schools
* Dr.Njoroge also brought us in the loop of some grand African Development Bank
project that seeks to train translators to make as much African content on
culture and local languages online.(financed by the ADB)
* We also thought of identifying some pilot project of Local relevance say like
try to bring Agricultural information online in local languages as possible.
This idea however was left to the Local Chapter Members to deliberate on it and
then get back to Dr.Njoroge with our thought over the same as soon as possible.
* Dr,Njoroge also assured us of the support of KU in terms of physical address
when we need legal registration.
* We however agreed to try out the one off projects in collaboration with The
Multilingual Education Network of EA as we work out the registration
details.(upon the Local Chapter Members to determine a pilot)
* Lastly we agreed to have another meeting as soon as possible to deliberate
over the above issues after we(The Local Chapters have discussed the same)
* We also thought to involve Salome(The Kiswahili Expert from Google during the
next meeting)Health Speaks
Health Speaks is an initiative of Google to try to make Health related content
available online as much as possible. Currently they are running a pilot to make
English Wikipedia articles available in Swahili, Hindi and Arabic .It is on
voluntary basis but they are offering upto $50,000(US) in donation to a local
NGO. (more at
www.google.org/healthspeaks).
Oliver, Abbas and I were involved in the training of the participants on
Wikipedia related issues. Oliver delivered a fantastic Wikipedia start up
tutorial during the Nairobi training. I was also involved in the distribution of
the posters for the same in my campus (JKUAT) other than being a participant in
the same. If anyone would like to participate, log onto the website above.
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Limoke Oscar
Undergraduate Student -JKUAT
Bsc.Geomatic Eng. and GIS
+254 717 845 316
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