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Subject: Re: Updates (Email scheduled for 9pm had to come early. )
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:42:21 +0000
From: Georgina Ofori-Dwumfuo <georg.mis@gmail.com>
To: Sandister Tei <sandister@sandistertei.com>
CC: Ato <abocco@gmail.com>, Rex <nkansahrexford@gmail.com>, Harold Ankrah <no1harold@gmail.com>, K Anane <ananeappiahkd@gmail.com>


The second category i referred to is this;
2.       There are members who also love open
source and creating and distributing free
educational and informational resources.


On 8/18/12, Sandister Tei <sandister@sandistertei.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I assume you saw my Whatsapp message and so you are updated. Until we start
> having meetings and affording them, we would have to resort to long emails.
>
>
> About Mailing list
>
>
> The emails will now come from mailing list given us by Wikimedia.
>
> Our coordinator Rexford and co handle this list and so they
> will be the best people to tell us what we gain from mailing lists and other
> how tos about it.
>
>
> @Rexford @Oral kindly enlighten us if you can especially  with what that
> “Digest” means
>
>
> Discussion and Talk
> pages
>
>
> I am happy to announce that we are really involved in a very
> resourceful project. Wikimedia has all the infrastructure we need to run our
> projects smoothly but the problem is there are so many we miss some at
> times.
>
>
> Let me introduce to you user talk and discussion pages. I
> have done some explanations here
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Planning_Wikimedia_Ghana
>
> Please let’s read. The key to figuring out Wikimedia is to
> read. This will now be our discussion grounds. I learnt Wikimedia monitors
> all
> these pages to see our progress and involvement.
> @Ato, you articulated some views in the chatroom about how we can get work
> done. I am inviting you to go to this page
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Planning_Wikimedia_Ghana and put that
> suggestion under the “Suggestions” segment. I will be glad to assist with
> any questions you have.
>
>
> Membership
>
>
> It has come to my notice since joining Wiki that there are 3
> types of motivation for this project. This is not an official categorization
> but
> I see it.
>
>
> 1.
> They are members who like Wikimedia like to be associated with this big
> name. Beyond that, they do
> nothing.
>
> 2.
> There are members who also love open source and
> creating and distributing free educational and informational resources.
>
> 3.
> There are also others who are experts in a field
> and they want to lend their expertise to chapter formation without
> necessarily
> contributing or editing often.
>
>
> Guys, as Acting operations manager, I can only sweat and
> dedicate myself to those joining Planning Wikimedia for the categories 2 and
> 3.
>
>
> @Ato and@ Oral
> have made it clear they belong to 3. Ato is our Act. Advisor and Oral is
> Act.
> PRO
>
> @Georgina @Harold
> @Kweku determine where you belong/ what you can offer. So I know what to
> expect from you
>
>
>
> I have also noticed once again that there are 2 levels of
> involvement with the little research I have done.
>
>
> 1.
> Some Wikimedians are hard core editors/ contributors. Some
> have edited and contributed 100000s of times. Amazing stuff. Some of such
> gurus
> are NOT even members of a chapter. 2.
> Some people have just 100s of edits yet they
> work hard to hold the chapter’s activities together in ensuring that
> 1000000s
> of edits come from the countries where their chapter is based.
>
>
> Please note that the Wikimedia Ghana’s chapter’s vision is
> to nuturing people like  1.  So @Georgina @Harold @Kweku y’all
> have been here some days now. If you want to join 2., make me aware so that
> I
> can integrate you in to administration properly. I am diving into the About
> My
> School Project
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana/About_My_School_Contest
> with all intensity. I need people who have sacrificed themselves that I can
> call on. I don’t want to chase anyone.
>
>
> Regards,Sandister Tei___________________________________________________
>
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