Munene Nyaga and Zuberi Nuhu of Kamusi cha Changamaka on Q fm could be resourceful too.They are great champions of Swahili. Another project I think we could explore is the Colleges and University Outreach.The KU visit proved that we realy need to reach out to the students and lecturers and spread the Wikimedia Gospel.So far we owe KU a talk with there students and a copy of the Wikipedia for Schools before May....
Regards to all,
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:18 AM, SAMSON MAOSA coolsam726@gmail.com wrote:
Quite a resourceful discussion you had. Of great interest to me is the Swahili wikitionary, alias Wikikamusi. This would be very relevant, especially if we partner with the Kamusi Projecthttp://kamusiproject.organd KTN Leo as well as other Swahili Dictionary Projects. That was a wonderful job you did. Thumbs up
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Sarah Osano sarahosano@gmail.com wrote:
Great report Abbas,thanx for the update of the meeting. I agree KTN Leo will be of great help in the Kiswahili Wiktionary.If I may say this,some schools actually make their students watch KTN Leo everyday for them to enrich their swahili(like my former school). We should work with them and any other source. Regards, Sarah.
On 1/22/11, Alex Wafula xelawafs@yahoo.com wrote:
I totaly agree with this Kinyanjui, especially now that we have Michael Joseph charing the Kenya Tourism Board who have a great say on Brand
Kenya's
activities. So yeah, I definately see them assisting in this.
Abbas, great report back to the team regarding the meetup. I don't think
I
have anything else to add.
Alex.
On Fri Jan 21st, 2011 2:51 PM PST Njoroge Kinyanjui wrote:
Great stuff are just about to happen. Carry on with the good work!! I think if we would like to go forward with "Wikipedia Takes
Nairobi",Brand
Kenya should also be involved cause they would be in a position to
assist
us in identifying great places(some of which many of us might not know of). They also are working together with various government agencies
and
different stakeholders in the country. And don't forget, their core purpose is to showcase Kenya. I see like they would be an excellent addition, especially in assisting in developing content. Thanks for the update. Much appreciated.
Regards, Kinyanjui
On 22 Jan 2011, at 00:42, Asaf Bartov wrote:
Thanks for the update! This all sounds great!
Some thoughts:
- Producing spoken versions of Wikipedia articles is an excellent
idea.
Bear in mind producing good audio versions takes a lot of time. Therefore, it would make sense to put in that time only for articles
that
are already quite good and comprehensive (like Featured Articles on English Wikipedia).
- At the same time, if there's a basic article that we would like to
see
as a spoken article as well, it may be very motivating for the Swahili Wikipedia editing community to see a template on that page saying something like: "A spoken version of this article is being planned. Before we record it, it would be great if the article could be
improved
in the following ways: A, B, C", where A, B, C are specific problems
with
the article, e.g. missing information, bad grammar, etc.
- Re Wikipedia Takes Nairobi -- perhaps there are additional groups
to
partner with. E.g. does Nairobi, or Kenya in general, have a
historical
society of some kind? If so, perhaps they would be willing to send a representative who could brief the participants about worthy, lesser-known sites?
- Re museums, I recommend that as a first step, care be taken to
ensure
that the English and Swahili Wikipedias have entries about these
museums.
Even basic ones. (A basic entry is a good thing to show to a museum
and
explain we want to broaden the article and enrich it with content from the museum's holdings.)
That's it for now. Excellent work!
Asaf
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Abbas Mahmoud abbasjnr@hotmail.com wrote: Hi guys,
As you were aware, Alex and I went to the ICT Board office today
morning
for a follow-up meeting.
In attendance: -Kaburo Kobia, Project Manager: Digital Local Content; -Abbas Mahmood; -Alex Wafula.
I started by debriefing Ms. Kobia on what a Wikimedia chapter is all about, how many we were, our objectives and most importantly, our projects -- both current and in the future. The following are some of
the
projects that we discussed/proposed:
Wikipedia Takes Nairobi -- this is a project/competition/whatever-you-may-call-it that will entail participants taking pictures of monuments, buildings, celebrities (and anything else) from Nairobi. The pics will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and to their relevant Wikipedia articles (if any). This will
help
in improving the quality of the pre-existing Wikipedia articles. This project is not new in the Wikimedia community: several other chapters have done this as well e.g Wikipedia Takes Manhattan[1]; Wiki Loves Monuments[2], etc. Wikipedia For The Disabled -- This will be a project that will focus
on
adding audio/spoken articles to Wikipedia. This project is aimed for those who are blind and therefore rely on their hearing aid for most
of
their day-to-day life. A magnificent example of an article that has Spoken Wikipedia in it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Tree_Frog. Unfortunately, I
do
not know of any article on the Swahili Wikipedia that has audio in it.
So, we suggested that a plausible launch for the above two projects
would
be in May/June. The ICT Board shall assist us in looking for sponsors, launching the project, press & advertising as well as fundraising.
Other projects that we discussed, although to be taken at a later date were:
I also told Ms. Kobia about Wikisource; and the fact that the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court[4] was there but the new Kenyan Constitution[5] was not. So again, there was a lack of local content on 'Source as well. Ms. Kobia said that she was going to talk
to
the Kenya Law Society and see what she can do about that. Basing on the fact that there is a GLAM[3] bazzazz in the Wikimedia community at large, I also suggested that we should partner with
Kenyan
Museums (there are 27 museums, counrtywide) & the Kenya National Archives. We could also partner with Kenya Wildlife Services and come
up
with, ermm... I dunno...a project about taking pics of wildlife (I
mean,
the game reserve is what Kenya is known for:-)) Swahili Wiktionary -- I also suggested partnering with KTN Leo so that
we
could increase the Swahili vocabularies online. FYI - KTN usually
shows a
new Swahili word everyday in the middle of the 7 o'clock news
bulletin.
Notes: [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Spring_2008
[2]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments [3]For more info about GLAM, check out:http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM-WIKI and http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM [4]
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rome_Statute_of_the_International_Criminal_Cou...
[5]http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Kenyan_Constitution
Another followup meetinng is scheduled in the next few weeks.
Cheers, Abbas
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