I'm not talking about generating new articles, just updating articles who's facts will be 'changed' so to speak by the event of the elections in a timely fashion.
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 6:48 PM MSK Oliver Stegen wrote:
>Politically a good idea but please remember that wikipedia is not wikinews.
>News articles trying to keep track of the elections will in all probability
>be deleted by the administrators.
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>Best,
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>From: Andrew maina [mailto:kimemiaandy@yahoo.com]
>Sent: 28 November 2012 11:30
>To: The discussion list for the Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] State of the Chapter
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>Love to be there but I can't sorry.
>However, is it too early to discuss how to make sure we are ready to deal
>with the 2013 general elections on Wikipedia? There's gonna be a huge influx
>of new info (poll results, court petitions etc) that's gonna come through in
>really short notice and I'd like Wikipedia to be a good up to date place for
>folk to keep track.
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>From: Alex Wafula <xelawafs(a)gmail.com>
>To: The discussion list for the Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
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>Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 12:52
>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] State of the Chapter
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>Hadn't finished that.... So I think we should have 1st Dec for the meeting.
>Is everyone OK with that? Mugo, do you think you can get a space by then?
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>On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Alex Wafula <xelawafs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>I've started a pad here [1] on stuff that we can do to gain some momentum
>while working together as a community. It would be great if everyone could
>chip in then we can settle on the ones we'd like to followup with.
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>As I mentioned before, I think 1st Dec i
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>[1]. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmke-ideas
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Guys,
I have been silent watching in hope that someone will come up and say
something about the state of the Kenyan chapter. While we decided to
disband the board, we did not agree to kill the chapter. We have a lot of
things to achieve and we need to bring back the fire that was the Kenyan
chapter.
I would like to suggest a meetup to discuss the way forward, who is with me
and what is the best day to get this up?
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David Mugo,
Adviser to Kenya's VP on Digital Media & Technology,
CEO & Board Chairman, Wikimedia Kenya
http://mugo.me
Twitter: @raidarmax
Hi all,
congrats again with the organizing of Wiki Loves Monuments in Kenya! I know
it was a big struggle to get it off the ground.
As we discussed before, I understood there are still some pages of the
monument list missing. Does anyone know where those pdf's/jpg's are?
Secondly, your local expertise would be welsome. Henkvd reported here [
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Effeietsanders#Winners_in_Kenya]
that some images have no identified monument. Could you, as a
community,
try to figure out what is displayed on the images, and whether it is
actually a recognized monument in Kenya?
Thanks!
Lodewijk
Hi all,
> my name is Elitre and I am about to write a case study about the
> participation of Africa in WLM for the
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica project.
> it would be great if Wikipedians and Wikimedians involved in WLM Kenya
> 2012 could send me ideas and thoughts about the contest Wiki Loves
> Monuments Kenya (and maybe also some background on similar events in your
> region) and the images in
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monument…,
> how it went, whether you're satisfied, excited and so on. I'd be glad to
> report your words into my article which is due for the end of this month!
> Thanks!
>
> Elitre
>
Hi Everyone,
As we all know, Kenya participated in the Wiki Loves Monuments Contest
that concluded recently. We had 97 images uploaded to Commons of Kenyan
Monuments cutting across Kenya's diverse geography. Surprising to all of
us, we had images from as far as Nyeri and Mombasa
A jury of 3 was selected to help judge the images that would participate in
the International Contest. The Jury was Diverse and had consisted of memvsr
from: Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Ghana(Unchapter) and Wikimedia Kenya.
The judging criteria involved each member of the Jury selecting his/her top
10 best images . After which each member was then allowed to score each
image he/she had selected with 10points for best image and 1 point for the
least. The points across all the images were then summed and the final
score for each image used to select the final images . Incase of a tie in
points, the image that was voted by the most number of Jury members was
given a higher weight and so forth.
Here are the Top 10 Images that would compete in the International Contest:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JOMO_KENYATTA.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NATION_CENTRE.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_National_monument.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NATIONAL_MONUMENT_1.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SILVER-_JUBILEE.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Times_Towers.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:10years_Nyayo_era.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NSSF_Building,_Nairobi.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FREEDOM_HEROES_-.JPGhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_forest.JPG
Next Steps:
- First is to Congratulate everyone who prticipated in the Challenge
either through helping iwth the ourgainization ir as a participant.
- Since we could not ask for a budget for National Winners, we would be
trying to solicit for consolation prizes to award to all the Top Images
from Friendly Chapters of The Foundation
- To reach out to all the participants(especially out of Nairobi) who
will be key to our scaling of our projects across the country bearing in
mInd that most od us hail in Nairobi
- Encouraged by the small success of this, we hope to make a
better budget and preparations foe next years WLM
Once again, congratulations to all
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Regards,
Limoke Oscar,
Dream.Believe.Become....a world of endless oportunities
