I think at least you and Enock agree on the same matter about leaving it alone. I am almost falling into that peer p. But imagine: Planning Wikimedia GHANA and we can't do anything for the GHANA article, it's a shame. 

But we will see how it plays out. What I know is that the article will get protected sooner or later. Ghanaian admin or no Ghanaian admin. We have to move our efforts from the talk pages into contacting admins we know because it's getting tiring.

Or maybe when Mahama calls for Wikipedia to be blocked in Ghana perhaps someone will listen.

Regards,

Sandister Tei

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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, sandister, unfortunately I didn't understand most of then terms you used in the email. Brofo no aba!

By the way, this Ghana article, I personally wouldnt waste time on for obvious reasons.

I will rather reach thee level I can get admin, and in that position I will be good to enforce such restrictions on pages that have high vandalism but for again obvious reasons, non African admins avoid to protect.

Etua wo y)nko a etua duam. Until we get an African admin who understands contents from Africa, it'll be hard to make these protections.

Asa! Minni hwee ka

Rexford | Africa Center | wikiafrica.net | sent from Tab

On Mar 5, 2014 7:14 PM, "Sandister Tei" <sandistertei@gmail.com> wrote:

During the usual vandalism and edit warring party on the Ghana article in the past weeks, I passed by the talk page to warn members protesting certain changes to be careful they don't get blocked. Whatever they had to offer, should be done in accordance to Wikipedia laws. You could be fighting for the right thing but an admin can have you thrown off Wikipedia and it will shock you. A member of this community misunderstood and gave a sarcastic response to the warning. He further came to this mailing list to say how disappointed he is of my comments on blocking.

Now the context of my warning was, a Ghanaian account Rex and I saw online before we even thought of PWMGH had 1000s of edits but was blocked. Many of you don't know this. Now just because you can now type Wiki markup and you are building your edits and editing confidence fast, doesn't mean you know better than those of us who invited you on board. Well maybe you do. But if that demeanour will not earn the group more members to help us meet our foundation target, but might cost you your account and waste our investments in outreach, or be a nuisance to a community manager's work, there is the door.

Wikimedia Foundation is meritocratic. It works with individuals as well as teams. Planning Wikimedia Ghana prefers the team approach. We do outreach but really after one is confident in their knowledge, once again there is the door. When someone doesn't understand what I say around here, you might as well get clarification. I don't mind strong opinions but for snarky comments and innuendos, I am not a fan.

Sandister Tei

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JOMEC -- International Journalism
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