I'm confident it was the size, because I sent my
"Excellent, Douglas"
reply on its own first, and it was bounced citing the 40K limit. So I
canceled the post and resent with the quoted bit much cropped.
A.
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Nkansah Rexford <seanmavley(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','seanmavley@gmail.com');>> wrote:
@Asaf,
I doubt the message size was the culprit. I only saw there's a pending
message to clear today, which I apologize for the delay in relaying the
message.
I'm currently doing all the moderations, so perhaps anyone interested in
being a third admin will be great.
On Monday, May 25, 2015, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','abartov@wikimedia.org');>> wrote:
Excellent, Douglas!
A.
P.S. your post was delayed for 6 days because of the 40K limit on
messages to this list. I'm guessing it was put there on purpose, to
conserve bandwidth for those for whom it is an issue. So we would do well
to avoid quoting entire threads, and perhaps those with embedded graphics
in their signature could disable them for this list. Alternatively, if it
isn't in fact an issue, the list admins (Dumi and Rexford) could lift the
limit, or increase it.
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Douglas Scott <
douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Isla, hello everyone,
I agree with you and Grant on the importance of connecting with
Libraries. Particularly within a South African space. Ironically enough I
was in a meeting with the Cape Town Central Library today to discuss doing
activities such as edit-a-thons with them in the future. We have agreed to
do very simple one day edit-a-thon that is open to the public and based in
that library to test the waters there and with an eye to hosting similar
future events there. I would like to expand on this in the future to
include specialised edit-a-thons that focus on single issues (smilar to the
Feminism edit-a-thon that was done last year or the Black History
edit-a-thon Milos did this year) organised in partnership with both the
library and another organisation that can help us full up the venue with
interested motivated people. That is my current thinking and MO for
engaging with at least one library in the near future.
We do however need a longer term vision/strategy for libraries.
Additionally I am also open to other ideas and possible projects with which
we can engage with libraries on, especially if they lend them selves to
scalability. One such possible project is the roll-out of Kiwix (offline
Wikipedia) local wifi devices in smaller/rural libraries that dont have
internet access in South Africa. Theresa is bringing two such devices to
South Africa with her from the Berlin Chapters conference. The idea there
is for us to use these 2 demonstration models to show local governments and
departments of education the power of this technology so that it could be
rolled out across South Africa (or beyond). With smart phones and other
wifi enabled devices becoming ever cheaper (for as little as R450 these
days) the barrier to access to Wikipedia is increasingly becoming the high
cost of data. Kiwix would not have this cost whilst providing a free
offline version of Wikipedia in a local area. Great for a small
library/classroom/field/town centre that does not have any form of free
internet access.
Further more we do have some experience with working with libraries in
the Western Cape at lest through CHEC and the edit-a-thons we did with them
last year. CHEC has been eager for us to do a similar set of edit-a-thons
for other libraries in the rest of country but we need volunteers in these
locations who can run them. So we do have some contacts within libraries
in the Western Cape but there is still much more we can, indeed should, do
in my opinion.
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