Hello *all*
I was at the Chale Wote 2013 festival, I have created an article and Enock
made some useful edits to it. This will be the second article created for a
commercial entity by me/us, with the Be Bold Show being the first.
The Be Bold team (I met them at the festival coincidentally) and Chale Wote
peeps are thinking about bringing team members to us for training so they
can learn to edit and update the articles. If it happens, praise the Lord.
On other matters I hope fellow 7 other editors are doing your duties to
Ghanaian articles. It is why we are here. It is not by force please. I
can't stress this enough. I don't want us to become an over-hyped community
that does nothing really. I want us to have measurable results in our
hands.
National Volunteering Day (correct me) is coming up. I see people promoting
volunteerism all over the place. It will be hypocrisy for us as volunteers
for Ghanaian information online to be sharing the posters on our walls
without engaging people on the topic of Wikipedia and how it is kept going
by volunteers like us.
*Enock, *you should have an idea of what you should be talking about on
soc. med. by now with 21 around the corner. We need to use the opportunity
to encourage people to edit Wikipedia. And please come up with stronger
strategies. Nonetheless thank you for the posts, you take volunteering to
another level.
*Rex, *I will forward the t&t expenses soon ok? The chilling has made tired.
Please declare your edits.
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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Guys the British Council is on the 35000 pounds grind again. Scholarships!
Scholarships! Scholarships! As you know I got one of these to study at
Cardiff. They are real opportunities and I encourage all of you who qualify
to apply.
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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From: <Sydney.Hushie(a)gh.britishcouncil.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:27 PM
Subject: Call for applications: Challenge Scholarship Scheme
To:
Dear Scholarship Applicant,****
We are glad to announce a call for applications for scholarships on the
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I just saw that Sekou is not on the wiki. I am adding him to the meta page
list of articles to be created.
Please, I didn't say you should go create. We have agreed to index first
and murder later.
Please keep populating the lists.
We decided at the meeting to index pages so we will know what needs to be
done to ensure we keep 'Ghana' covered and find a central place that we can
all go to and find things to edit.
Rex and Enock made some submissions to me. I am working on them. So far I
have created a meta page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/What_Can_You_Edit to
host our submissions. I have been gathering categories to make sure that at
least the page can give a good account of articles that GH Wikipedians can
occupy themselves with.
Feel free to go there and pick something to do.
Very soon we will all decide on our best or massive work done so we can add
that to the report.
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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We planned to gather articles by categories to help us focus on WHAT to
edit.
I am suggesting lists. Lists are a great way to browse articles for ones
that don't exist so we create them.
For the new members, a red link on a Wikipedia page usually means it links
to a page which has no article. In other words, you have the chance to
create a new one now.
This week if you want to get some edits, kindly come here and add names of
actors who are missing. Soon we will move to artistes, politicians etc
In the long run we will have lists of notable articles that need to be
created.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ghanaian_actors
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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