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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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Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections
by caargwings＠gmail.com 17 Mar '12

17 Mar '12

Hi Nice people, @Branton, thanks for introducing the electrol team, that's officially the kick off whistle to our operations as the team that will foresee the forthcoming WMKE board elections and probably the ones to come in future as well. I'm glad we'll be meeting next week, Monday. See you and Chris then. Sincerely, @cliffqleeph ---------- Sent via Nokia Email ------Original message------ From: Branton Obwari <bruceobwari(a)gmail.com> To: "The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter." <wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:45:21 PM GMT+0300 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Board Elections Hi guys, We are working on having the elections on 31st ,now that we have a guaranteed venue. Voting shall be in the way of secret ballot ,5 aspirants who will get the highest votes shall make up the board , that's according to our chapter election procedures , i stand corrected ! I shall liaise with my fellow electoral team members Chris & Cliff on Monday evening ,whether by way of physical meeting up ,Skype or otherwise see how we can handle the Q & A session & Logisics /ballot papers blah blah,Thereafter by Wednesday we expect to have set up an election page where aspiring board members will post their respective bios, For now i want to urge our members to spare some time for this historical event so that we have better turn out ,cz the future of WMKE chapter is at stake, On behalf of the team i want to say that we shall be keen to follow the procedures as outlined because we want to set the right precedence for future elections. </Bruce> On 3/16/12, Alex Wafula <xelawafs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Chris, > > Count me in too for the board positions. > > Alex > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Chris Riwa <chriwaustin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hallo everyone, this is a quite interesting and historical event to all of >> us. Thanks Abbas for the update. I intend to lias with the other two >> members who volunteered earlier to overlook this activity and afterwards >> issue a complete plan of events to be undertaken. I intend to have this >> fully done and a date for the election set by sunday evening. Your support >> and participatin is fully encouraged and appreciated. >> Regards, >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
by Asaf Bartov 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi. Just in case it has not been discussed here yet: Is anyone in Wikimedia Kenya interested in undertaking the coordination work to make this happen in Kenya too? Asaf ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org> Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate? To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, we're well on our way getting started with Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! (feel free to forward) For those that don't know what Wiki Loves Monuments is all about, please read this blog post [ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/02/165000-photos-submitted-during-second-…] on the WMF blog and this page about how the concept works [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Documen…]; here's also a small introduction to the main idea of the contest and what's awaiting us this year. *== Wiki Loves Monuments in a nutshell ==* The photo competition around physical cultural heritage (buildings, bridges, etc.) is running in September, organized in numerous countries around the world. The contest is being organized in each country separately, allowing to play to the local needs and wishes, but is joined by an umbrella contest for the whole world making it all a bit more exciting. Last year the contest was organized in 18 countries, and brought in 165.000 images by 5000 uploaders. More importantly, 4000 of these uploaders never uploaded anything before! *== Is your country participating? Helping hands are needed! ==* For 2012 already 24 countries [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Partici…] indicated that they will definitely participate, and 16 more say they possibly will participate. Please take a look at the list, and see whether your country is already there. If you would like to help organize this contest in your country, please join the team that signed up for it (often through a chapter or a local group) or start your own organizing group if there is none yet! Interested countries for example include India, United States, Chile, Sweden and Italy. *== So, why would you want to organize a WLM in your country? ==* Well, of course there are the images – it is great to have good images available of your country. But more importantly perhaps is the amount of individuals that might participate! Hundreds, maybe thousands of people who never contributed before can now help out with what they are best at: making photos. They often find it fun, and might hang around a bit longer if we receive them well. It also is a good opportunity to get in touch with local cultural heritage institutions. Finally, it is a good way to try and forge a local community to organize events together. It is an existing framework you can use, and although there are no guarantees, working in an international context like this (the largest collaboration between chapters and other Wikimedia organizations so far!) helps a lot to keep people motivated and close to each other. An international group will be helping interested groups with the basic infrastructure and other things, and on a national level, you can focus on the organizing of your own contest, lists and communications. *== Join the team and get started! ==* If you want to know more, feel free to leave a message[ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012] or send us an email. But make sure to get started now if you're interested - because some parts of the work just require quite some time since external parties are involved. We would be delighted to help you out in any way possible to pull off this event. Best, Lodewijk (on behalf of the international coordinating team) _______________________________________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Fwd: Meta e-mail from user "06Ivonne"
by stephen wanjau 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hello, Below is a forwarded message form Ivonne of Wikimedia Indonesia. //Stephen ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 06Ivonne <ivonne_kristiani(a)yahoo.co.id> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:54:04 +0000 Subject: Meta e-mail from user "06Ivonne" To: Stephenwanjau <wanjaustev(a)gmail.com> Hi Stephen, I'm Ivonne Kristiani from Wikimedia Indonesia. I realized that we're going to meet in Berlin so I thought I'll contact you. There will be a discussion of Chapter selected board of trustees and chapters council there and I'd like to know more about it. Has Wikimedia Kenya come to a decision of who to endorse for WMF Board of Trustess? Have you discussed amongst yourself about the chapters council? Looking forward to hear from you! Regards, Ivonne Kristiani -- This e-mail was sent by 06Ivonne to Stephenwanjau by the "E-mail user" function at Meta. -- *"Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better"* <http://uwanja.wordpress.com>

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[Wikimedia Kenya] Egerton University
by stephen wanjau 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hello, You all know that we are supposed to not only attend an open source day<http://eucossa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=50>at Egerton University but also give a talk at the event. The audience shall comprise of students, lecturers and other techies interested in open source technologies and how these tech can be used to attain vision 2030 <http://www.vision2030.go.ke/>. Free knowledge should go the greatest way to attain the vision 2030 and so the talk shall be a good chance to talk about the Wikimedia Strategies that have been laid to reach more people in this part of the world. Some of the things we might share with the attendants: *A general introduction to the WMF. *A call for contributors/volunteers with the WMF projects. * The off line Wikipedia - kiwix reader - and how the folks at Kiwix get to dump the articles so that they can be read off-line. * The recent collaborations with Mobile Service Providers to offer Wikipedia free of data charges. *Increase reach especially in Africa and the global south where Internet usage growth is projected to grow by more than 10% by 2015. *I have been liaising with the organizer and they promised that we shall have our booth where participants of this event shall pass-by as we have a word or two plus recruit more contributors to the Wikimedia. My two cents of what we expected to preach at the outreach on the coming weekend. I have not yet confirmed my personal attendance of this event but I will do so by Thursday evening. So far two people have confirmed their attendance of this event. //Stephen. "Internet is only relevant to the locals if there is something they can directly relate with in a language they can understand easily" - Vint Cerf at the IGF VI in Gigiri, Nairobi 2011 "Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better" <http://uwanja.wordpress.com> -- *"Better Late Than Never, But Never Late is Better"* <http://uwanja.wordpress.com>

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