> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:14:40 -0700
> From: xelawafs@yahoo.com
> To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Setswana Wikipedia Challenge
>
> 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@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
>
>
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