Here is a message from Aaron , Please read and react to it,
I am writing you now because I am considering traveling to Kenya to meet and
interview other Wikipedians in your country.
However, in order to make such a trip worthwhile, I would need to locate as
many Wikipedia users and editors as possible -- ideally at least 15 or more.
(More than that would be better still.) Do you think it would be possible to
find that many Wikipedians in Kenya? And if so, do you have any suggestions
of where I might find them? And how I might contact them?
If you could put me in touch with any Kenyan Wikipedians I would certainly
be grateful. Also, if you have links to any pages that track top
contributors to the Swahili language Wikipedia, that would be most useful. I
am also considering traveling to other African countries, so if there are
other countries that you think I should visit, please suggest them as well.
Thank you,
--
Aaron Muszalski
Community Department
I also had a chat with him later and here is the message
Aaron: You're most welcome. :-)
So -- WMF will send me, but they want to make sure that,
if they do send me, that
I return
with a good number of interviews
And -- perhaps more importantly
A number of good interviews
10:05 ones that could make good appeals
Which is a challenge
me: We can work that out together
Aaron: Because only a small percentage of all interviews ever result in an
effective appeal
Yes, I agree
Also -- there was a man from Nairobi
in the news about a year ago
10:06 Who built a plane
using information he learned on Wikipedia
It would be most excellent to track him down and meet with him as well
10:07 me: I will share that with them too
We can track him down for sure
Aaron: His name is Gabriel Nderitu
http://physicsworld.com/blog/2010/10/kenyan_physics_graduate_builds.html
10:08 me: ok.
10:09 Aaron: As far as the dates go - It might be in the range of the 11th -
18th
Or possibly a week later.
Please let me get your reaction to this mail and if we can get Wikimedians
from Kenya and those who are not active wikimedians but have been using
Wikipedia in what they do.
--
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