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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Oh Sandister :-o
by Sandister Tei 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

You should have stated that you wanted to add Twi version. All looking through of Wikimedia blog posts are done by the editorial team you connected me to when I joined -- LiAnna and Matthews. Not me or you. My first post was done for me. This is my second one, I don't know how adding Akan versions work. Whether before Matthew sees it or after ... the best thing is anyone who wants in on an article should get a WMF blog user account so we can all access the dashboard and a common post before it goes out. I will forward you an email. Contact Matthew or LiAnna and add the twi version. Regards,Sandister Tei___________________________________________________ Writer | Social Media Trainer & Manager | WikimedianW: about.me/sandister Planning Wikimedia Ghana M: +233 20 357 2222 Linkedin Facebook Twitter Google Plus Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:10:34 +0100 Subject: Oh Sandister :-o From: nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com To: Sandistertei(a)gmail.com You wrote a nice article but I remember telling you to let me know when you submit the article to wikimedia blog draft. I wanted to add a twi version to it, but you never let me know. hmmmm -- +Nyarko Rexford

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[Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] IMPORTANT: sending prizes to you - check your address!
by Nkansah Rexford 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

I hope we're getting ready to check on the calendas from WLM 2012 when it drops in @Sandi The items will be sent to the previously submitted address, the same as the one for receiving the moleskin notebooks. thanks rexford ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Barbara Fischer* Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] IMPORTANT: sending prizes to you - check your address! To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello activists of Wiki loves monuments! as we are going to send You soon 15 copies of the calendar from most participating countries I do have a valid address, due to the sending of the notebooks earlier this year. But some are missing These are the countries, where I lack the information, that the package actually reached its destination: - Mexico, Ivan Martinez, second try - Columbia, Oscar Gomez - South Africa, Isla Haddow Flood c/o Africa centre - Philippines Wikimedia Chapter - Norway Harald Groven - Canada Beniot Rochon (parcel came back this day 20121120) - Switzerland, Chantal Ebongue - Poland, Anna Matusiak - Ucraine, Wikimedia Chapter - Belgium, Romaine - Israel, Tomer Ashur These are countries where I lack all post information: institution or private; Name, familiy name; house street number; town ; zip code; district, country, office hours; and if possible a phone number - Kenya - Slovakia Please let me know, if the parcel service has failed, and if so, if you could suggest an other address. best regards Barbara Fischer Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

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[Wikimedia-GH] Ways to boost personal editing interests?
by Nkansah Rexford 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Hello for months, I've been looking at the editing trend from Ghana for a while now. One thing I noticed is that, the willingness of Ghanaians to contribute to Wikipedia and other sister projects is what is lacking. The means is there. Many spend several hours daily sharing and commenting and talking on social media platforms like Facebook. Thus, internet connectivity and time constraints isn't the hindrance. Maybe, another excuse that might sound plausible might be the fact that, many don't know they can contribute to Wikipedia or the others. Fine! If that's the case, how do we tackle that in our own niche? Where does it start from? Is social media not enough to tell our people they can contribute to Wiki? Well, maybe patience is important. But statistically and mathematically, if I am to project the contributions coming from Ghana currently, I don't see an increase of 10% in the next 5 to 10 years. Are we doing something wrong? If no, then what aren't we doing very well? We kinda have many enlisted on our meta page, but practically, the edits aren't flowing. Many articles about Ghana are started and expanded by non-Ghanaians. For me, I see reluctance, feeling of less necessity to contribute and no want-to-help-others feeling but want-to-learn-from-others attitude. What's the breakthrough? thanks rexford -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

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[Wikimedia-GH] Exhibition worth in Ghana?
by Nkansah Rexford 18 Nov '12

18 Nov '12

Hello Do you think exhibiting the 12 best photos of WLM 2012 in Ghana will be worth it? Will we have the needed partners to support? Read below to learn more! rex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Tomasz W. Kozłowski* Date: Sunday, November 18, 2012 Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] The travelling WLM photo exhibition needs YOU! To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi there, I am happy to announce that we are now able to organise a travelling photo exhibition consisting of the 12 winning Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 pictures, as chosen by the international jury (which, by the way, should be announced soon!). We intend to have the exhibition visit about 6-10 places around the world from December 2012 until around August-September 2013, with almost all the costs being covered from the international budget. As I've been sending a lot of e-mails to this list in the past few days, I'll make this long story short :-) Please read all the details at < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Exhibi… >, write down your names in the table at the bottom of the page, and do not hesitate to ask questions if you'll have them :-)) The contact person from the team is Barbara who has all the details, but the rest of the team can also help you with more general questions. Thanks, -- Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]] _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

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[Wikimedia-GH] WLM 2012 Blog on Ghana?
by Nkansah Rexford 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

For the first time this year, Ghana participated in the WLM. I've seen blogs from other countries about their participation in this year's event and photos submitted. Can we write one for Ghana? Will that be necessary? Rexford -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

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[Wikimedia-GH] How can I do this?
by Sandister Tei 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hi. Does anyone know of a Wikipedia template that can help us gather important dates concerning Ghana? Like historical anniversaries? There are examples of such dates here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_12 Regards,Sandister Tei___________________________________________________ Writer | Social Media Trainer & Manager | WikimedianW: about.me/sandister Planning Wikimedia Ghana M: +233 20 357 2222 Linkedin Facebook Twitter Google Plus

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[Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Organisers' survey
by Nkansah Rexford 10 Nov '12

10 Nov '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Tomasz W. Kozłowski* Date: Saturday, November 10, 2012 Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Organisers' survey To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi there, with the participants' survey slowly reaching its end, I would like you to spend a little of your time on filling yet another questionnaire that I hope will come useful for the evaluation of this year's contest and will help us to make Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 even better than it is now. Just like last year, we have prepared around 20 questions for you to answer, which -- as our beta-testers report :-) -- should take about 15 minutes at maximum to go through. Unlike the participants' survey, due to its smaller scope (in terms of surveyees), this one is based on a Google Form, but I hope you'll be OK with it :-)) When it comes to privacy, we will of course share the results of the survey with anyone wishing to have a look at it after analyzing and anonymizing the results -- so if you have any feedback that you'd like to stay private for whatever reasons, please feel free to fill out the survey without specyfing your name(s). The survey is available at < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGMtRG5TNVdWck16X3dlTG… >. I intend to close it in two weeks from now, that is in the early UTC morning of Saturday, November 17; I hope you'll have enough time to fill it during that period. Thanks in advance for your time and your feedback; as always, feel free to ask any questions that will come to your mind, and do not hesitate to give long answers in the survey -- the more information we have, the better :-) -- Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]] _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- +Nyarko Rexford <https://plus.google.com/u/0/107174506890941499078>

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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Bloggers first post and election project matters arising
by brightmail2012＠ovi.com 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

I feel so left out here. ---------- Sent from my Nokia phone ------Original message------ From: Sandister Tei <sandister(a)sandistertei.com> To: "Rex" <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>,"wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012 12:39:55 AM GMT+0000 Subject: [Wikimedia-GH] Rex is in RE: Bloggers first post and election project matters arising Good! Congrats on the Wikimania HK team Regards,Sandister Tei___________________________________________________ Writer | Social Media Trainer & Manager | WikimedianW: about.me/sandister Planning Wikimedia Ghana M: +233 20 357 2222 Linkedin Facebook Twitter Google Plus Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 18:30:04 +0000 Subject: Re: Bloggers first post and election project matters arising From: nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com To: sandister(a)sandistertei.com CC: wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org; bigwig4r(a)gmail.com; georg.mis(a)gmail.com; brightmail2012(a)ovi.com In fact, Sandister has and is doing a great job. All the pages she's created looks perfect and well prepared for this year's election. Personally, I never knew Sandis' such good wiki editing skills (why you hiding that? lol) I'm IN! I dey your back. rexford On Wednesday, November 7, 2012, Sandister Tei wrote: Hi guys. I am working tirelessly to get meta pages to look attractive enough should we get some traffic during the project. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana I have also put a table of the presidential candidates in the 2012 elections Wikipedia article. Whoever is up to creating one for the running mates can join here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_election,_2012 I was hoping we can update Ghana election 2012 article to be rich as this for the Americans' elections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012 I feel it should be the hub of all the work. It is the centrepiece of the project so to speak Please based on the information on this page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning_Wikimedia_Ghana/_Wiki_For_Election_… those who volunteered as official bloggers should prepare a draft. I believe I sent you all a link to creating an account already. If you don't have it, let me know. The blog post should just be about the project. Kobe is creating a logo.. We will attach it to the posts. Respond to the email please if you are in. Regards,Sandister Tei___________________________________________________ Writer | Social Media Trainer & Manager | WikimedianW: about.me/sandister Planning Wikimedia Ghana M: +233 20 357 2222 Linkedin Facebook Twitter Google Plus -- +Nyarko Rexford _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh

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[Wikimedia-GH] Bloggers first post and election project matters arising
by Sandister Tei 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi guys. I am working tirelessly to get meta pages to look attractive enough should we get some traffic during the project. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana I have also put a table of the presidential candidates in the 2012 elections Wikipedia article. Whoever is up to creating one for the running mates can join here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_election,_2012 I was hoping we can update Ghana election 2012 article to be rich as this for the Americans' elections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012 I feel it should be the hub of all the work. It is the centrepiece of the project so to speak Please based on the information on this page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning_Wikimedia_Ghana/_Wiki_For_Election_… those who volunteered as official bloggers should prepare a draft. I believe I sent you all a link to creating an account already. If you don't have it, let me know. The blog post should just be about the project. Kobe is creating a logo.. We will attach it to the posts. Respond to the email please if you are in. Regards,Sandister Tei___________________________________________________ Writer | Social Media Trainer & Manager | WikimedianW: about.me/sandister Planning Wikimedia Ghana M: +233 20 357 2222 Linkedin Facebook Twitter Google Plus

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[Wikimedia-GH] Moleskins from Wikimedia De
by Sandister Tei 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi guys! I picked Moleskin notebooks from Wikimedia Netherlands. They are mainly for incentives for top contributors to WLM and any other project that is coming up. Follow Fb and Twitter accounts for updates on all donations to us so far. Regards,Sandister Tei___________________________________________________ Writer | Social Media Trainer & Manager | WikimedianW: about.me/sandister Planning Wikimedia Ghana M: +233 20 357 2222 Linkedin Facebook Twitter Google Plus

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