I'm super cool with Limoke going, so +1
Alex.
On Mon Sep 19th, 2011 10:26 AM PDT Limoke Oscar wrote:
>Hey,
>I would love to should Abbas and Alex permit.Since the timelines are pretty
>tight,Will start I hope we agree ASAP on who would go to allow time to plan.
>Thanks,
>On Sep 19, 2011 7:26 PM, "Asaf Bartov" <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Hello, everyone.
>>
>> A couple of months ago I mentioned Google Nairobi's initiative to run
>> another Wikipedia Challenge in another African language. I asked for a
>> volunteer to train the judges and the participants, but then the project
>was
>> put on the back burner for a while.
>>
>> So now it's back on, the dates are finalized, and the timeline is actually
>> pretty tight. The language chosen is Setswana, spoken in Botswana, and the
>> judges training will take place in Botho college on October 8th, with the
>> participant training taking place one week later, Oct 15th. The
>competition
>> will run 45 days.
>>
>> I apologize for not being able to give you more of an advance notice, but
>> things have been a challenge to set up and finalize, and I didn't want to
>> keep changing dates on you.
>>
>> We need _one_ volunteer who:
>>
>> * had participated in the Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge
>> * has a passport
>> * can commit to flying to Botswana _twice_ to deliver one-day training
>> sessions on those two dates (Google to provide tickets and accommodation)
>> * is interested in teaching people some basics of Wikipedia editing (the
>> interface, the syntax, talk pages, user pages) and core principles
>(Neutral
>> Point of View, references, avoiding plagiarism and copyright violations).
>>
>> For the participant training, I would like to *also* bring in one South
>> African Wikipedian as trainer, but for the judges training on the 8th,
>it'll
>> be just one trainer.
>>
>> I can help with some training materials from the "campus ambassadors"
>> training on the Outreach wiki, but the exact contents and order of the
>> training is really up to you.
>>
>> Note that the Setswana Wikipedia is completely inactive, and so this
>> Challenge is a good chance for it to breathe life into it. The up-side of
>> that is that there won't be much community interference in what the
>> participants do. ;)
>>
>> Please respond ASAP if you can make it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Asaf
>> --
>> Asaf Bartov
>> Wikimedia Foundation