Hi folks,
I would like to ask you a favour... We have two translation requests for
the fundraiser that we would like to have in Swahili, so it would be great
if any of you could help translate them. These are for a fundraiser test
that will be done in many African countries, amongst them Kenya and
Tanzania on the 27th. Would you be able to help translate the two pages
into Kiswahili before then?
The two pages are linked here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012/Translation
Just go to one of the pages and press "Translate this page" on top, choose
Swahili, and start translating. If you have any questions, let me know.
P.S. Me and some friends are going on vacation in East Africa in April,
would be great to meet up with you guys then. Not sure of the exact dates
I'll be in Kenya yet though. (Oh, don't post anything about it on my
Facebook wall, we are going to surprise a friend in Uganda who doesn't know
we are coming at all.)
--
Jon Harald Søby
Community Fellow
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello Nice People,
As we prepare for the meet-up on the coming weekend I would like to *propose
* we have a photo walk on either of the weekends following 11th, that is
18th or 25th February.
The point of this photo walk is not just to capture pictures of notable
buildings and monuments around Nairobi, but to also ask people to log on to
commons and check it out by themselves.**
All Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians are invited to participate in teams (no
special knowledge is required at all, just a digital Camera and a love of
the city;)
Regards,
Stephen.
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Hi Everyone,,
I trust we are all well and the excitement and partying dust has
settled following our recognition as the 39th Chapter. :-)Time to
chatr way forawd and serious issues.
So we all remember sometime last year we were planning for an Outreach
to various campuses across Kenya to introduce students to the Culture
and editing Wikipedia. Well, the first of such outreach is almost here
with us and we have plans to visit a few campuses in Mombasa in early
March along the Mozilla Kenya team. The details are still sketchy and
I would appreciate your input and contribution into the same. You can
find the Meat page for the same here :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Kenya_Outreach_2012
PS: who was responsible for posting the Last Meetups minutes?
Yours,
--
Limoke Oscar,
hi i once did a documentary with a couple of my friends...all you have to do is get a letter from KBC because there will be filming also, and from da traffic police boss because of the comotion you will be causing and nothing from the municipal council unless you wany them to shake you up
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> From: stephen wanjau <wanjaustev(a)gmail.com>
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> Hello Nice people,
>
> I do hope that you are doing well. At the meet-up, we resolved to undertake
> the photo-walk on the Saturday of 25th February 2012 and not on the 18th as
> it had earlier been indicated. During our meet-up I networked with a
> photographer/ blogger who was in attendance and we dialogued about how we
> could make this photo walk a success in terms of the logistics involved.
>
> He informed me that he had been using images from commons as yet he never
> knew of the existence of a local community of Wikim(p)edians! From what he
> said, we are required by law to get Press cards from the affected ministry
> that deals with Journalism in Kenya, i.e. Ministry of Information and
> Communication.
>
>
> Another alternative that we had been given earlier by Kaburo as we were
> planning for Wikis takes Nairobi was to request for written permission from
> the City Council of Nairobi. I am kind of muddled by these two opinions
> because in Kenya there is freedom of panorama, one is allowed to take
> photos except at such places that are marked explicitly that you are not
> supposed to take photographs.
>
>
> Freedom of Panorama in
> Kenya<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#Kenya>as
> highlighted on Commons.
>
>
> Anyone on this list who is conversant with this, I beg to be educated/
> rectified so that I can go ahead with the planning for the photo-walk.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Stephen.
>
Hello everyone,
This E-mail serves as a reminder that our Saturday's meet-up is still on.
VENUE: Ihub, Along Ngong Road opposite Uchumi.
TIME: 09:30am
AGENDA: >>CLICK HERE<<<http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wikimedia-kenya-meet-up>
You can RSVP at the etherpad whose link I have provided above. Or better
still reply to this mail with a confirmation of your availability.
regards,
Stephen.
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Hello,
Forwarding the thread below of congratulatory messages from the international community.
--Abbas.
From: kerryn(a)africancommons.org
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 19:24:42 +0200
To: internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Congratulations to Wikimedia Kenya!
Well done Abbas and team! This is fabulous ... Afriwikians unite ;) !!!
Kerryn
* * * *
Kerryn McKay
The African Commons Project
082 334 6165
skype: kerrynmac
twitter: kerrynmckay
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Yes, some of us are here :). I will forward this thread to our local mailing list so that the rest can see it too. Thanks for your congratulatory messages.
Regards from Kenya,
Abbas.
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:11:44 +0530
> From: tinucherian(a)wikimedia.in
> To: internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Congratulations to Wikimedia Kenya!
>
> Congratulations and Best wishes from Wikimedia India Chapter.
>
> Btw are the folks from the new chapter on the list to receive our wishes
> ? :)
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
> Wikimedia India Chapter
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in
>
>
>
>
> On 2/9/2012 3:18 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> > The Wikimedia Foundation Board is very pleased to welcome and approve
> > our 39th chapter, Wikimedia Kenya:
> > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Ken…
> >
> > Congratulations to all for your hard work!
> > -- Phoebe Ayers
> > WMF Board of Trustees Secretary
> >
>
>
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And someone from WMF is already interested in working with us! See message below.--Abbas
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:51:03 -0500
> From: sumanah(a)wikimedia.org
> To: internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com; oslimoke(a)gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Congratulations to Wikimedia Kenya!
>
> Abbas Mahmood, Limoke Oscar, and all the other Wikimedia Kenya people --
> welcome and congratulations! I look forward to meeting you at
> Wikimania, as many of you as can come.
>
> I saw that you are interested in information/communication technology in
> schools, especially offline use of and access to Wikimedia content. I'd
> be happy to work with you on:
>
> * encouraging Kenyan students to work on MediaWiki and related Wikimedia
> open source projects -- we have some new tutorial texts and videos up at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials
> * helping technology-minded Kenyan students apply for paid open source
> work via Google Summer of Code, especially on MediaWiki --
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012
> * sharing experiences with the Wikimedia Foundation's mobile/offline
> engineering teams, and with Wikimedia Switzerland (which also sponsors
> Kiwix development) to ensure that Kiwix and mobile access work for you,
> in the educational contexts you've experienced
>
> (Please feel free to forward my offer to public email lists, blogs, etc.)
>
> Ahsante sana for all of your work, and best wishes!
>
> --
> Sumana Harihareswara
> Volunteer Development Coordinator
> Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah
Dear Wiki colleagues,
I am excited to invite all members of the Kenyan chapter of Wikimedia
to participate in the Wiki Africa project that will expand and
increase the contents of Africa information in Wikipedia. Through this
invitation we hope to build a strong partnership in promoting African
content in Wikipedia.
WikiAfrica is an international collaborative project between Africa
Centre and Lettera27 that is designed to Africanize Wikipedia by
generating and expanding 30,000 articles over two years. The project
promotes a new method of acquiring and sharing knowledge that is
fully-inclusive, mainstream, intercultural and relevant to
contemporary and historic Africa. The initial two years are focused on
encouraging external Africa-based, cultural organizations, museums and
archives, as well as bloggers and journalists, to contribute their
knowledge to Wikipedia.
These initial two years focus on content related to literature,
poetry, art, cinema and other cultural products. WikiAfrica will not
exclude anything that falls outside of these categories, but focuses
most of its energy in these areas. At the same time, the WikiAfrica
project expands the African content that is already available online
and improves existing articles by combining sources and promoting the
participation of experts. WikiAfrica contributes to the aims of
Wikimedia projects online (especially the WikiProject Africa,
WikiProject African diaspora and the Africa Portal) and also works
externally with texts, quotes, images, audio and video.
The project will be approached and achieve its goals via the following
four activities:
-Create partnerships with organisations that have existing
archives that are readily accessible and that are predisposed to
placing this content online;
-Motivate the adaptation of a copyleft or Creative Commons
approach to intellectual property.
-Activate new Wikipedia users and editors in Africa through
marketing and promotion; and
-Create training tools and establish the mentorships required to
activate a new team of users and editors of Wikipedia (wikipedians).
Click on Get started
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Get_started ) or
the Project page
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Projects) to
contribute to Wiki Africa and become a member of Wiki Africa !
Please visit our incubator at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Incubator for a
step by step guide on how to start your articles for new authors.
We look forward to working with Wikimedia Kenya chapter through
knowledge exchange, participation and contribution to this project.
For any questions don't hesitate to contact me.
I wish you all a wonderful meeting on Saturday!!!
Thank you
Francis Awinda
Administrator and content manager Wiki Africa
Email:francisa@africacentre.net
Tel:+27793087519