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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