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[Wikimedia Kenya] (no subject)
by Branton Obwari 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

1.why do you think you suit to be in the board of WMKE? Because I have and was among the founders of WMKE. I have dedicated and worked hard to see WMKE to its current form and I still have the energy and zeal to take even to greater heights. 2. What is your take on the level of participation of members in WMKE projects/meetings/mailing list? Anything you think should be done differently? I think our participation on the mailing list has been mostly vague and somewhat with empty talk. Having regular physical meetups should help us resolve issues fast and efficiently and plan for projects too. Our mailing list should just be used for Communication en Mass 3. As a board needs members with different skills (e.g. administrative, financial, public relations etc), please tell us which particular skill set have you worked in previously, like in another society or organisation? Team leadership ,Project management and selflessness skills are what I have acquired through my involvement with both the Wikimedia Kenya, The OLPC Movement in Kenya and a few other personal and voluntary engagements 4. Which languages have you worked in so far? And what is your position on both a language policy and a language strategy for WMKE? I have worked in Both Swahili and English and I have no reservations on language policy for WMKE. Both languages suffice and should remain our key focus./ 5. How would you best deal with the issue of editor attraction and retention in our local chapter so as to ensure the growth of WMKE as a whole? Through Having a number of Wikimedia Outreaches and Wiki Academies to showcase and teach people and members of the WMKE about editing and the need to. The need to have our local content from our own perspective is very vital. 6. Now that we are an independent chapter, how do you plan to raise funds supposing the parent Wikimedia Foundation won't avail funds to run the aforementioned project? Through Local Partnerships and campaigns on the social media to sensitize people on WMKE and the need to preserve our Knowledge. Accepting donations via local means eg Mpesa as low as 100 will allow us to reach to the large audience and help us raise funds. 7. What kind of a project/ activity would you envision WMKE and its members undertake in order to fulfill the objectives of Wikimedia Foundation as a whole? Outreach and Wiki Academys would help us Attract and Retain editors and at the asem time contribute knowledge to Wikimedia Projects...which are the key Wikimedia Foundation Key Goals and Objectives. -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, "point me to the destiny,and I will curve my own path to it "

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[Wikimedia Kenya] ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS EDNA KIOME
by Branton Obwari 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

QUESTION AND ANSWER FOR WIKIMEDIA KENYA BOARD CONTENDERS. 1. Why do you think you suit to be in the board of WMKE? I am hardworking,assertive,dedicated which means I will spend whatever time and resources I have to accomplish the tasks that Wikimedia Kenya assigns to me.I am also creative thus enabling me to think outside the box so as to make Wikimedia Kenya better. Since am enthusiastic about Wikimedia and its projects, I will serve as a source of inspiration and motivator to the members and others who support the good course. Have been in Wikimedia for a year and having participated in some of the activities such as being a wikipedia editor,contributor to wiki-commons,attended all meet-ups and I have been involved in the mombasa outreach; I have experience to serve as a board member since I share in the vision and goals of wikimedia kenya. 2.What is your take on the level of participation of members in WMKE projects/meetings/mailing list? Anything you think should be done differently? The level of participation is low.Wikimedia kenya has quite a number of members both active members and inactive.There are members who are active in the mailing list and never turn up for meetings or participate in the projects,there is another group of members that are always there for meetings but don't often participate in the mailing list and there is the last group that is all round; they participate in the mailing list, meetings and projects. Every member who shows any form of participation is important,however if we could have members that participate in the mailing list,projects and show up for meet ups will enable us to take wikimedia kenya to a new level.Therefore my take will always be; go an extra mile in everything and that will always enable Wikimedia Kenya to meet its goals. Meetings should have a set date every month if that how often we agree to be meeting so that when everyone is making a schedule they can set that day aside.This I believe will enable more members to attend the meetings. 3. As a board needs members with different skills (e.g. administrative, financial, public relations etc), please tell us which particular skill set have you worked in previously, like in another society or organization? I work with an organisation called Kibera Mtaani initiative which deals with children and education in Kibera.We are a group of few volunteers but everyone has a defined role.In my case it is the administration where I basically plan for the next meetings and what we need to prepare for it.Apart fom this,I have acquired other leadership skills from working closely with leaders in organisations that am involved with such as the societies and club in my universities. 4.Which languages have you worked in so far? And what is your position on both a language policy and a language strategy for WMKE? I have in English and kiswahili.. I intend to push a 4th language on the table after Kikuyu which is the 3rd language. My language strategy would be to start with one or two other popular languages in Kenya and try to build a community around them. This can be greatly boosted by the fact that I will have set outreaches across various towns. An interesting perspective is different towns mostly have different indigenous people speaking different languages. Working closely with the outreaches then it is easier to harness the power of the communities around directly through the outreaches. Once we get firm ahold of one or two languages then we popularize the exercise hence drawing the attention of other language-speaking communities.My strategy will draw together the different strands of language revitalisation to create an overaching framework for the activities and endeavours of WMKE 5.How would you best deal with the issue of editor attraction and retention in our local chapter so as to ensure the growth of WMKE as a whole? I would attract more wikipedia editors in Kenya by engaging more and more students and IT communities around the country and exposing them to the wikimedia foundation,its objectives and editing wikipedia through community forums,outreach or social networks.I would also creating new groups specifically for "Editing Wikipedia" in all social sites with details on how it can be done. I would start an editing competition where I would reward the participants for a start, with time they would be integrated since we would have them participate in the outreaches and teaching others how to edit wikipedia. I would also approach different groups of people differently for example if am targeting the youth most of them would love to write about entertainment.Therefore this would make sure the editors are retained since they write about something they love.Engagement, discovery and appreciation keeps them coming back.So we could have grading maybe for the top editor the one who has made many edits so as to encourage them. 6. Now that we are an independent chapter, how do you plan to raise funds supposing the parent Wikimedia Foundation won't avail funds to run the aforementioned project? I would apply the model of open source communities where members help the projects by crowd sourced capital. This is easy in Kenya since most people have embraced online digital media especially social media. I would actively engage people through forums as well as posting the events and progress on a blog. This way people could monitor the on goings of the chapter. Kenyans have before come together to raise funds for various things including the famous Kenyans 4 Kenya when they raised money to help the starving in drier parts of the country. This initiative was run mainly on social media and they were able to raise good money. I could use the same approach since if kenyans get to know what wikimedia foundation and specifically wikimedia kenya is all about I have no doubt they would give donations to support us. Therefore since most of the community has joined social media it could be a platform to use to get donations.Donations could be sent through mobile money transfers such as M Pesa that are available everywhere in the country. 7. What kind of a project/ activity would you envision WMKE and its members undertake in order to fulfill the objectives of Wikimedia Foundation as a whole? Going by the Wikimedia objective of sharing in the sum of all knowledge freely with every single human being, I would thrive to set up various outreaches in various parts of the country not just in Nairobi as it has always been. Then build vibrant communities around these outreaches. Each outreach would be headed by a chosen person that will be hands on with all the on goings of the projects and overseeing the success and failures of the outreaches. I would be in constant communication with those people at least twice a week. In these communications, I can gather what is going on and what needs to be implemented or improved. On the main blog, I'd also invite them as guest writers so that they can be posting bi-weekly blog posts. This will go a long way in engaging the community and making sure it's vibrancy doesn't die off. I can also be organising Skype or physical meetings like once in a month or 2 so that we can meet and evaluate the progress we are making and whether we are achieving the Wiki goals.

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Update from the electoral team
by Chris Riwa 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hallo everyone, First of all I would like to congratulate all the contestants for officially passing their first test by passing their bios. However, we still have a question and answer session coming up and your participation is expected. However, I call for everyone to visit the ether pad created by Abbas http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/3te5azOUIp to confirm your attendance of Saturdays meet-up. This is quite important for our planning. More so, you are also encouraged to visit the bio page http://wikimedia.or.ke/Board_Elections/nominees_bios and involve the contestants in discussions as much as possible. They need to tell us all why they are best suited for the job. Lastly, anyone intending to vote by proxy should make an official request to the electoral team; either through our mailing list or by private mail, as from now (12noon 28/03/12). Please mention your proxy as one member can only present one proxy vote on the election date. Refer to our bylaws/voting system http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya/bylaws On behalf of the electoral team, 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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[Wikimedia Kenya] Catch and Follow WikiConf LIve here
by Limoke Oscar 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi Everyone, Lets catch and follow the ChapConf proceedings and gossip here: http://www.mediawiki-beratung.de/twitterwall-wmcon.html and here : https://twitter.com/#!/wmcon The official hashtag is of-course: #wmcon -- Regards, Limoke Oscar, "*point me to the destiny,and I will curve my own path to it *"

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Proxy Requests
by Chris Riwa 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Hi everyone, This serves as a reminder to all those intending to vote by proxy to make their requests as soon as possible. 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* Twitter: *@chriwaustin* Facebook: *facebook.com/chriwaustin*

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Wikipedia for Kamukunji Schools
by David Mugo 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Guys, I had a meeting with Hon. Yusuf Hassan, the MP for Kasarani this morning and he mentioned that they just donated 11 computers to all secondary schools in the constituency. He was pleased with the idea of going back to the schools and installing the offline Wikipedia in all the computers, give talks to the students and he will accompany us throughout the tour. Please let me know when would be good to do this and who will be available to push this further. I will talk to him about sponsoring the small costs of moving around and probably buy lunch. -- ------------- David Mugo, ICT & E-Commerce Consultant, http://majibu.com Twitter: @raidarmax

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections 2012
by cliff argwings 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Hello Everyone, So yesterday, the Electoral team met finalize on the arrangements for the forthcoming board elections to be held on Saturday, 31st March - 2012. Below are the key points to note -: 1. The elections date remains as announced earlier on, 31 - 03 - 2012, beginning from 12 noon. 2. Voting by Proxy still allowed in any case need might be. The person who wants to vote by Proxy has to therefore mention his proxy before the due date and send them with the necessary requirements for the voting process. 3. All contestants registered will be allowed to take part as candidates. No one will be disqualified as far as eligibility is concerned for their candidature, unless otherwise proven! 4. For the Q & A session, the electoral team welcomes all questions starting today, an official compilation of the questions will be sent out today as well. The session will run through Thursday till Friday. 5. Friday is a 'Free Day'! We'll be taking any views and comments with regards to the Elections process! Lastly we'd like to invite everyone to come and be part of this Great History in the making, 'The First Board Elections - WMKE Chapter' ! Warm Regards, //Cliff

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[Wikimedia Kenya] The Elections Programme
by Chris Riwa 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hallo everyone, The team in charge of overlooking the election process managed to meet yesterday for the first time. The team is composed of Branton, Cliff and I, and the meet-up was aimed at brainstorming on how the upcoming election will be conducted and to plan for all the activities that will precede the actual election. Generally, we aim at having a free and fair election process that will also be educative and eventful. Hence, we call for all members to kindly come out and support this activity in a positive manner. The different activities that we agreed on and the dates we expect them to be performed are stated below: 1. *Declaration of intention.* This serves as an official announcement by a member to contest for the position of board member of WMKE. This can be done on our official mailing list, as most of you have done, and the last date for this activity will be on Wednesday, 21st March 2012 by 1159hours. 2. *Registration of contestants.* This will involve the determination of whether an applicant is eligible to contest for the position of a board member of WMKE as per the Chapter's Constitution or any other rules agreed upon by the members. This is fully the responsibility of the electoral team and the results are to be released on Saturday, 24th March 2012 between noon and 1159hours. 3. *Setup of the contestants bio-page.* A bio page on the wiki will be setup for the purpose of giving all the contestants an opportunity to wikify their plea to the members on why they are best suited for the job. This will be coordinated by the electoral team and the bio-page on the wiki will be setup on Friday, 23rd March 2012 by 1159hours. 4. *Bio posting by the qualified contestants. *All the contestants that qualify to contest will be expected to post their bio's on the developed wiki (Number 3) by Sunday, 25th March 2012 at 1159hours. Note that a qualified contestant has 24 hours to complete this task or be disqualified. 5. *Posting of Questions to the contestants. *In order for us to have a Question and Answers (Q&A) session online, questions will be sent to the to all qualified contestants by e-mail. The electoral team will then receive the various responses from the qualified contestants (PRIVATELY), after which the team will wikify them depending on the contestants turn to respond to the views and opinions of the members. This posting will be done on Sunday, 25th March 2012 by 1159hours. 6. *Response to questions asked by the contestants. *The contestants are expected to respond to the questions asked on Monday, 26th by 1800hours. They will send this responses to the electoral team privately and NOT on our usual mailing list. This is aimed at ensuring the Q&A sessions are conducted in an orderly manner and equal time will be availed to all contestants to interact with the members. 7. *Q&A sessions.* This will involve the posting of the responses provided by the contestants on the wiki by the electoral team, and an eventual discussion by the members and contestants. Each member will have specific time to interact with the members through the setup wiki. This will be conducted from Tuesday, 27th March to Thursday 29th March 2012. 8. *Open Day.* This will be on Friday, 30th and contestants will be allowed to post openly in our mailing list and involve members in discussions. A Skype chat will be chaired by the electoral team later in the day to try and get the contestants to interact with the members. 9. *Election Day. *This will be on Saturday, 31st March 2012 at a time and venue that will be communicated by the electoral team by Wednesday, 28th March 2012 latest 1600hours. Note that the following were agreed upon by the team on Yesterdays meeting as well. - This election will see the selection of five members of WMKE, by secret ballot, to the board of the Kenyan Chapter of Wikimedia by the voting members, and after which the selected five will decide on who will occupy the 5 positions defined by The Constitution. - The basis of determining those members eligible to contest or vote in this election will be based on the rules determined and agreed upon by the members in the meeting held at The Public Service Club on Saturday, 11th February 2012. - Voting by proxy will be available as per The Constitution. The electoral team will inform all members on how this will be conducted once we finish up on the logistics of its execution. - The team calls for members to come out and participate in this activity with utmost fairness and integrity. - Any queries or opinions about the election are greatly encouraged but the electoral team request that such be communicated privately to any/ all of the team members privately first. However, you are required to cc Asaf on such communications for the purpose of openness and fairness. We will be glad to try and provide solutions to any questions and challenges as we guide each other on undertaking this activity. >From the electoral team. 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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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] thank you
by Abbas Mahmood 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Sorry for being blunt :-| I have heard lots of complaints about this mailing list from both local chapter members, Wikipedia editors, and the wider Wikimedia community. Phoebe once mentioned something about mailing lists that I believe is worth sharing: One point that I have thought about, and talked about privately with some of you, is (particularly on a list like this) how much time -- how many person-hours -- is spent on each email. An email list where the entire staff and chapters officers are subscribed means that each email is read by a few hundred people, many of whom are getting paid and/or who have serious institutional responsibilities. So even if a long mail only takes 5 minutes to read, parse and think about, how many person-hours (and in turn donor dollars, lost productivity, or time taken from other things) are being spent? Let's be optimistic and assume that any given email is only read by *half* the list. 5 minutes x 100 people = 500 minutes / 60 = 8.3 hours. So one full workday -- 8 hours of our collective time -- for each long email. That is a heavy burden to ask of ourselves, and a heavy responsibility on those of us (like me!!!) who go on at length in their mails! Being the admin of this list, I have seen soooo many people unsubscribe to this list, mostly because they have found it nonconstructive and lots of lip-service going on. So people can be free to post whatever they want on this mailing list, but that doesn't mean that we are free from the repercussions of what we say. The consequence of this being a list that is ignored, or people unsubscribe, or even get added to a kill file. So we can therefore continue on as we are, and reap whatever the results of that are or individuals can choose to self-moderate. The choice is yours! Abbas. Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:02:15 +0300 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] thank you From: njeriannk(a)gmail.com To: abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com that wasn't sooo kind.... On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Oh my goodness, Lisper! May I ask you to please pause and breathe in (and out) before sending unnecessary emails to this list? I am quite overwhelmed by my almost unmanageable inbox, and would highly appreciate it if we'd stop flooding people's inboxes. --Abbas. Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:44:47 -0700 From: lispermwende(a)yahoo.com To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] thank you thank you for the security that was very good of you that's why i choose to work with you am assured of security. _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

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[Wikimedia Kenya] wiki-house
by Lisper Mwende 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

yeah,.. that's a good ideas am in.

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