WikimediaKE August 2012

wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org

17 participants
17 discussions

Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Email List
by Albert Mwangi 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Hi, I would like to be part of the Wikimedia email list for Kenya. Regards, Albert I Mwangi Profiles: [image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/amwangi> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/amwangi> [image: Twitter]<http://twitter.com/misteralbie> [image: Flickr] <http://www.flickr.com/photos//misteralbie/> Contact me: [image: Google Talk] irungualbert | [image: Y! messenger] irungualbert | [image: MSN] irungualbert | [image: Skype] bertman90 | <rkunga(a)gmail.com>

2 1

[Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimedia Interviews
by Alex Wafula 16 Aug '12

16 Aug '12

Hi all, I've managed to get an interview with Gabriel Nderitu next Saturday ie on the 25th. This is the guy who built an aircraft by reading a couple of Internet resources including Wikipedia. There are a couple of other interviews to do so I'll setup a page specifically for scheduling them later on today. cheers, Alex

3 2

[Wikimedia Kenya] Leaving Wikimedia Kenya
by Abbas Mahmood 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

Hi all, It is with deep regret that I tell you I am leaving Wikimedia Kenya. After more than two years being proactively involved with Wikimedia Kenya's governance, I have decided to leave -- for personal reasons. I therefore need some volunteers to take over 1) moderating the Wikimedia Kenya mailing list, 2) being the Wikimedia Chapters Association liaison, and 3) facilitating the chapter registration process. I will also forward Wikimedia Kenya's projector, that I have, to the Board soon. To allow for an orderly transition, I will stay on through August. I hope to continue contributing to Wikimedia projects and Cultural Heritage projects (such as the Kenya News Agency project) in an unaffiliated capacity. I wish Wikimedia Kenya the best, in its future endeavors. SincerelyAbbas Mahmood

2 1

[Wikimedia Kenya] Translation rally
by stephen wanjau 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

(cross posting) Hello! See email below as an invite to the August translation rally at translatewiki. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hello, dear translatewiki.net user. This is the http://translatewiki.net<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Main_Page>e-mail newsletter for August 2012. It features news on MediaWiki localisation and changes in supported products. Thank you for supporting translatewiki.net. The success of open source software localisation relies on your continued involvement and enthusiasm. Please try and dedicate 15 minutes a week to updating and reviewing translations for your favourite project and spend a little more time this week to share in 1,000 Euro! Translation Rally: Contribute 500 translations and share in 1,000 Euro The first Translation Rally of 2012 may already have started. This rally is sponsored by Wikimedia Nederland <http://wmnederland.nl>, the Dutch Wikimedia chapter. We are very grateful for this wonderful support! The August 2012 translatewiki.net Translation Rally<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Rally-2012-08>starts on 8 August 2012 22:00 UTC and will run until 18 August 2012 00:00 UTC. Check out the project page for more details. The previous rally<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Project_talk:Rally-2011-12/translatew…>resulted in almost 45,000 new translations for MediaWiki, Kiwix and Wikipedia Mobile in 121 languages with 38 users sharing in the bounty. I'm sure we can do even better this time! Can you bring the site down with your translation activity? :) Changes in supported products Since the last newsletter, support for three new products was added, and support for many other products was updated. New product support: - Mozilla Firefox <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Mozilla>does not require any introduction. It's one of the most used web browsers in the world. We are currently experimenting with a limited number of languages. If you are currently a Firefox translator and would consider using translatewiki.net for your language with your team, please drop us a note <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating_talk:Mozilla>. At the moment, only Hebrew and Gujarati are supported. - Wiki Loves Monuments Mobile<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WLMMobile>is a is an Android application for contributing to the Wiki Loves Monuments project<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012>, a photo competition around images of cultural heritage held in 35 countries in September 2012. - Wiktionary Mobile<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WiktionaryMobile>is a cross-platform mobile & tablet application for reading and, in time, contributing to Wiktionary <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/>, a Wikimedia project. Put yourself on the map! Translatewiki.net uses Semantic MediaWiki <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/>and Semantic Maps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Maps> to put translators on the world map <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Map_of_translators>. Each language portal, like this one for Arabic<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:Ar#open_layer_1>, also contains a map with translators for that language. The same goes for pages with supported products, like that for StatusNet<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:StatusNet#Translator_map> . Put yourself on the maps, too<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MyPage&action=formedit> ! If you are a developer of a promising Free and Open Source Software product and you are looking for a great community to localise your product, please get in touch with us! The same goes for those that wish to aid in developing the Translate extension further. More detailed news can be found on our News page<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:News>. Follow translatewiki on Twitter <http://twitter.com/translatewiki> for the latest news. We welcome feedback about this newsletter. Please let us know by sending a reply to this mail. We will try to accommodate your wishes. Finally, of our 8,700 registered users, only 4,000 people are registered as translator. You may want to finish the steps<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:FirstSteps>that will get you the status of translatewiki.net translator and allow you to be a localisation hero! Siebrand Mazeland translatewiki.net staff ------------------------------ You are one of over 5,100 people receiving this e-mail because you have registered with https://translatewiki.net, the wiki localisation platform for translation communities, language communities, and free and open source projects. This newsletter will be sent at most once every month. You can opt-out by visiting translatewiki.net<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal>, logging in, and checking the box 'Do not send me e-mail newsletters' at the bottom of the tab 'user profile' in your preferences - although we hope you will not. If you have multiple accounts with the same e-mail address, you have to opt-out for all of them. -- "If Wikipedia is good enough for the Archivist of the United States, maybe it should be good enough for you." - US Archivist ,David Ferriero. "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>

1 0

[Wikimedia Kenya] Kenya News Agency archive
by Abbas Mahmood 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I am part of a working group involved in the digitization of the Kenya News Agency archives. The KNA was established in 1943, and is a photographic library that was used in the past decades by journalists to document various pre-colonial events such as the MauMau struggle. They have lots of content that are a national treasure, yet most of their photos are stored in metallic cabinets at Jogoo House, due to budgetary constraints. The KNA would therefore like to digitize its content so as to increase access and has started up a small working group to figure out the best way(s) to go about this. I'll update you guys with more info about the digitization after we have our first meeting. Regards,Abbas.

3 8

[Wikimedia Kenya] Offline Wikipedia: Kenyan Curriculum
by Abbas Mahmood 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hi all, We were developing the content curriculum for the Kenyan curriculum so that we could have a custom-made offline Wikipedia version for us here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools…. Is there anyone who is still working on this? As of now we have articles on Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Mathematics, IRE, Agriculture, History & Geography. We don't have articles on Business Studies & CRE. Articles re Physics, Math, and Geography are too few and still need to be increased. Is there anyone here who has access to the Kenyan curriculum willing to fill in the blanks? Thanks to Steve & Dennis on adding some articles. --Abbas.

14 34

[Wikimedia Kenya] Story Telling!
by Stephen Wanjau 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Hello! (Pardon me as am not very sure whether it is good to talk about people on a public list.) I hope this finds you all well. Preparations to meet guys Victor would have interviewed if his visit would have materialised had already started. And now since his plans to visit Kenya did not go as earlier planned we have to do some story teller interviews using his awesome Camera. Alex had already contacted the guy who had made a plane at his home since he had cited Wikipedia as a great resource of knowledge on citizen TV. In my patrols around Wikipedia, I came across Victors message on a user talk page of a very young contributor who is a resident in Kenya. He is a minor with >3000 edits on en and he is a great contributor to Kinyarwanda Wikipedia! Am in contact with him and he is also willing to be part of this story. There is another Nation Media Journalist who interviewed me earlier this year about Wikipedia and am in talks with him as well. More ideas from the community are definitely welcomed about people who will be part of the story. Regards, Stephen

1 0

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

WikimediaKE August 2012