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
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> Asaf Bartov
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