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:
>>>
>>> 1. 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).
>>>
>>> 2. 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.
>>>
>>> 3. 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?
>>>
>>> 4. 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_Court
>>> [5]
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Kenyan_Constitution
>>>
>>> Another followup meetinng is scheduled in the next few weeks.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Abbas
>>> --------------------------------------
>>> Feel free to contact me:
>>> Abbas Mahmood
>>> Tel: +254722215101
>>> Facebook:
abbasjnr@hotmail.com
>>> Skype: abbasjnr
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