WikimediaKE March 2012

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Ihub call for Organized group meetups.
by Lisper Mwende 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

I think any date will do as long as every other person is OK with it. and by the way what the reason for pushing the date to 7th next month?

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Ihub call for Organized group meetups
by Limoke Oscar 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

So i just stumbled on this and am traveeling so couldnt wait to share it. I think we need to be a part of it. so who is going to follow it up? www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2012/02/call-for-ihub-user-groups-and-meetups/ Aplogies for typos ;-)

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Nominees Bios.
by Branton Obwari 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

Hi , As a follow up to the board elections to be held on 31st we want to call up for bios. The bios should include a brief introduction ,when you joined ,the projects you have been involved ,a 5 point plan for WMKE /what you would want implemented when sitting @ the board,any other thing you want members to know. kindly post you bio in the link provided below http://wikimedia.or.ke/Board_Elections/nominees_bios Thanks & Good luck Branton Obwari For the Electoral team

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[Wikimedia Kenya] MediaWiki Upgrade
by Manuel Schneider 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

I just upgraded the WMKE wiki from MediaWiki 1.17 to 1.18. Please report any issues. -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

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[Wikimedia Kenya] self description
by Lisper Mwende 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

A lady who is hardworking, disciplined and ready to know more and meet many new friends also an IT expert who is interested with joining this program for as long as it takes. this will encourage me use the knowledge i have and also learn more about mailing, editing and linking e.t.c. Love travelling, adventuring, reading, watching movies, making friends, swiming and hiking. I believe in giving my best to receive the best.

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Projects - Kenyan Topics
by Alex Wafula 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Hi all, @Steve, Dennis: I understand that there's a small bit left to wind up on this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools… I'd love to get my hands on the curricular list and work on it over the weekend. cheers, Alex

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[Wikimedia Kenya] BERLIN CONFERENCE
by stephen wanjau 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hello Nice People, I would first like to congratulate me then you who in one way or the other had a contribution to the making of the newest Wikimedia Chapter. I have created the pad below to start populating it with stuff about our chapter events and projects since the previous chapter's conference. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/berlin-conference Please feel free to populate it and hope to discuss more about the state of our chapter. PS: Abbas, I would like to have the contacts on the forms that I remitted to you after the Wikipedia for schools in Nyeri, If possible please bring the forms on Saturday's meet-up. regards, Stephen. -- *"Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better"* My Blog <http://uwanja.wordpress.com> | @uwanja <https://twitter.com/#%21/uwanja>| Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/swanjau> | This message represents the official view of the voices in my head.

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Chapters Association
by Manuel Schneider 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Dear friends of Wikimedia Kenya! I am looking forward meeting some of you in Berlin in two weeks - at the Wikimedia Conference aka. Chapters Meeting. Since 2009 some chapter representatives have been thinking about how to better improve the collaboration between chapters and how the governance of Wikimedia Chapters should work without being too dependant on the Wikimedia Foundation and their will. Since the end of 2011 a plan has been created and discussed how we could achieve this by having a "Chapters Council", an association which acts as a common body of all chapters which want to become a member. Within this council chapter representatives would discuss and decide together on inter-chapter topics. The discussion is going on in Meta wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Council At the Finance Meeting in Paris by the end of February we discussed that we want to take the opportunity and move forward so we can decide on the Chapters Council in Berlin. This includes that chapter representatives discuss the topic with their members and boards and take a decision whether they want to support and be part of the Chapters Association or not (yet). Important for the discussions in Berlin is that the chapter representatives have a mandate to discuss the charta there and be able to make official statements on behalf of their chapter. I know that Wikimedia Kenya doesn't have a board yet but I hope that you will have the time to discuss the topic and participate at the discussions in Berlin. If this is not possible or too early for you to decide - no problem. Chapters can always decide to join later after they have observed the process and developed themselves. At least I want to make sure that we don't leave you behind and catch you by surprise when you encounter this discussion in Berlin. And of course it is helpful to the establishment of the new association if we have the support by many chapters. Here is a list of supporting chapters and their official statements: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Council/Chapter_Support As you see you can also stay neutral or even oppose the idea. That's perfectly ok. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Railways Museum
by stephen wanjau 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

Hello Nice People, Am putting my pen to purpose to enlighten you of what conspired in the Museum collaboration follow up meeting on 19th March 2012. We had an inordinate meet up with the Railways Museum boss over lunch a day gone by in Nairobi. It is good to learn that there are some guys who know about Wikipedia and telling them that they can edit is a spark! As all of you know Wikipedia is the best way to get Kenya and this Dark Continent onto the digital map. If your subject is notable then we are good to go on Wikipedia and rest assured that anyone searching for that matter will definitely get it whenever they do a search on Google, if not the first search result, then it will be on the top 5. Of course the museum boss had worries about releasing the museum content online for use for free. We advised him this is the best step to get known all over the world of what they have to offer to guests. Having the eye catchers on Wikicommons will only attract more visitors and share information. We cited examples of other Museums in Britain and elsewhere in the World that are doing such fruitful partnerships. We also told him keeping the information there is kind of ‘selfish’ since even most citizens of this nation do not know about the artifacts in this museum. He was quick to note that schools come from all over Kenya to learn about the Kenya-Uganda railway that was formally known as East African Railway since the information is available nowhere else- either online or offline (except the museum). The article about this on Wikipedia is just but a stub [1] ;( We definitely talked about how the museum benefits from this to get him on-board - His staff will learn to edit Wikipedia since we will not have a Wikipedian there to stay but maybe for a short while. Sharing free knowledge is also a great feeling! He told us he has volumes of documentation/tapes that bear such facts lying at the Museum. After lunch we ensued to the Museum where he showed us around for a tip-off of what we could get valuable from the Museum. The largest working locomotive steam engine is preserved at this museum and guys fly in to come and view this magnanimous machine and even engineers fly in to repair it. The plans/drawings of the outlook of the engine are also well-kept there which I presume should be on commons. All in all it was a fruitful meeting and he told us to draft a proposal explicitly elucidating each bit and piece of what we need-except dough;) , what we expect from the museum, how the museum shall benefit and how Wikipedia shall gain. Abbas and Alex by now have volunteered to get this document and hopefully deliver it next week at the Museum. Anyone else who would like to do so is welcome to do this – I will post the link to Meta once we start this. We told him we can have Wikipedians coming by with backdoor passes to come and edit stuff about the museum once in a while and so on…… I am happy this far of the enthusiasm to have this content on line and I have faith that other museums in Kenya shall follow suit. A map of all museums that we have in Kenya [2] Regards, Stephen. 1. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Railways_and_Harbours_Corporation 2. 2. http://kenyaplaces.info/ -- *"Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better"* <http://uwanja.wordpress.com>

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections
by Chris Riwa 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Hallo Wikimedians, It's been a while but I hope we are all well. This serves as a reminder that we are supposed to have board elections so that we can proceed with the registration process of being a fully recognized chapter. Furthermore, I am availing myself to be part of the team of members that will overlook the election process. I'll be in contact with all the acting board members on how we shall see this activity come to pass successfully. Just for the record, on our last meet up we planned to have these elections on the 17th of this month. However, this seems to be to soon if we are to have a well planned and executed election. I would like to suggest that we plan for the 31st of March since Ihub had offered space for WikimediaKE on the last Saturday of every month. Regards, -- *Chris A. Riwa* Research Specialist and Consultant Mobile: *+254(0)725-930-850 *e-mail: - *chriwaustin(a)gmail.com* - *otieno_chris(a)yahoo.com* - *chriwaustin(a)facebook.com* Skype: *chriwaustin* Facebook: *facebook.com/chriwaustin*

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