Thank you all.

On 4/12/13, Sandister Tei <sandistertei@live.com> wrote:
> Hi I responded to your email via the mailing list.
> I am looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Regards,
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> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:27:32 +0100
> From: yabe1584@gmail.com
> To: wikimedia-gh@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Hong Kong, Latest contributions to Wikimedia
> Outreach in Ghana & Other News
>
> Thanks for sharing Sandister.
> I am now seeing this info about tomorrow's training but will not be able to
> make it to help me start that all important step of editing for my classroom
> work.
>
>
> But I am hoping to get some interested people in helping assist in improving
> the article on Kasoa when they attend Barcamp Kasoa on the 27th and move on
> to recruiting them. Let me know what prior arrangements I should make in
> that respect.
>
>
>  Another barrier to my effective contribution apart from training is the
> distance. But I am hoping that improves as I am almost done moving to Accra
> now.
>
> Morevim to us all.
>
>
>
> On 11 April 2013 19:17, Sandister Tei <sandistertei@live.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hello community,
> Wikimedia Outreach in Ghana
>
> Tomorrow there will be a Wikipedia training and Dieu-Donné Gameli of
> University of Ghana is hosting us at the ICT center. He has done very well.
> I am not certain about turnout but I am hoping we can get new members who
> will either edit, or serve the community in some way.
>
> Follow work done so far and pending ones here.
>
> Member activity
>
> Enock Seth Nyamador is also amazing. So far he is closer to a 100 edits as a
> newbie. He has about 83 edits since January 2013 and most importantly he is
> working on the Ewe Wikipedia. I am recommending him for a position as an
> executive.
>
> I think we should all be encouraged to support local language Wikipedia.
>
> Dieu-Donné Gameli of University of Ghana is hosting us at the ICT center. He
> has been great support. Without him, that platform would have been non
> existent.
>
> Ato Ulzen Appiah has hosted us all these months at Barcamps where active
> contributors like Enock were recruited.
>
> Rexford Nkansah and me (Sandister Tei) have been having trainings before we
> were funded and post funding.
>
> Nii Abbey hosted us at MiPROMO and has opened his doors for more trainings
> with free internet etc
>
> Oral Ofori linked us to Nii and he paid to ship initial souvenirs which gave
> us presence in our initial campaigns.
>
> What have you done for the community lately?
>
>
> Active editing
>
> Currently I (Sandister Tei) have 232 edits since I joined in August 2012 and
> Rexford has 729 since January 2012. There are others but I am pretty sure
> for PWMGH Rexford, Enock and me have pulled our weight. Even this is not
> enough because elsewhere people have 1000s.
>
>
> Editing is the only way to secure our chaptership. A chapter means easier
> access to facilities and opportunities to lift the internet and time burdens
> we have so we can focus more on contributing. Editing is key. And editing is
> so easy and comes in various forms which you can all do if only you tried.
>
> Elsewhere, people have hundreds of thousands of edits and we can all attempt
> that much. We are aiming at 20 top editors to secure our chapter. Those
> helping in other ways, don't stop but try and click that edit link and even
> check for common grammar.
>
> We have 3 active contributors, (I stand to be corrected). We are looking for
> at least 17 more. I am throwing the challenge to all of us.
>
>
> Sandister Tei has been selected to go to Hong Kong
>
> I applied for the conference scholarship. I got it. I think I am the only
> one that applied. Next year, everyone should. It is just for 4 days and I
> believe you can leave work or school for just a few days for this important
> conference. But it starts with active editing and dedication to the
> community.
>
>
> In other news
>
> Our own Jimmy Wales is competing with Larry Page for the most influential in
> technology according to Time Magazine.
> Jimmy started Wikipedia as you all know and his project has pushed him to
> that height. Be encouraged. Wikipedia is a big deal. Commit to it and it
> will pay off.
>
> I recently went for an interview and the most impressive achievement that I
> had was my work with PWMGH. It pushed me to the next level.
> So assess why you are in this community anyway and inspire yourself to
> contribute. We are not interested in titles, we are interested in doers.
>
> Hopefully all should pay off soon.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sandister Tei
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