Hello folks,

I personally think that doing the contest in November/December is not a good idea since most students will be doing exams. I think that doing it in Jan would probably result in an increase in participants.


Abbas Mahmood,
Learners' Voice 2011 Member: World Innovation Summit for Education 
http://www.wise-qatar.org



From: deontemunene@hotmail.com
To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 07:39:26 +0000
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikipedia Takes Nairobi

+1
 
> Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:22:10 +0300
> From: wanjaustev@gmail.com
> To: xelawafs@yahoo.com; wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikipedia Takes Nairobi
>
> +1
>
> On 10/4/11, Alex Wafula <xelawafs@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 2 weeks is it then. Your +1 if you support this.....
> >
> > alex
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > hi,
> > on the duration of the competion, i think 1 - 2 weeks would be fine but then
> > encourage the participants and WMKE members to continue uploading photos
> > after the competiton because we are sure to miss some important structures..
> > the tom mboya statue for example, which has been hoisted but is yet been
> > unveiled.
> >
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 14:42:04 +0300
> >> From: wanjaustev@gmail.com
> >> To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikipedia Takes Nairobi
> >>
> >> Hi Nice people,
> >>
> >> We had planned to undertake this project in the future.
> >>
> >> The future arrives one day at a time and from my PVT conversation with
> >> Alex, we have up to three weeks to wrap up the preparations and thus
> >> the launch of this ginormous project just before the end of October.
> >>
> >> On that note consequently, a budget has been prepared by a portion of
> >> interested WMKE members and we would like to have your suggestions in
> >> the following areas;
> >>
> >> • How long should we run the photo competition??
> >>
> >> Bear in mind that;
> >> Some teams in Australia had more than 1 GB of photos yet the
> >> competition was run for only a single day.
> >> For our case here in Kenya running the competition for a day might not
> >> even scratch the surface of our targets just an example.
> >>
> >> • What are the proper awards for the 1st prize, 2nd prize and the 3rd
> >> prizes?
> >>
> >> The prizes should proportionate the efforts that you universally
> >> consider sincere. I.e. we cannot seek a sponsorship to Wikimania 2012
> >> from the WMF for a winner who only took photos for only a day – for
> >> you to go to Wikimania I think you are in better shape if you know how
> >> to edit Wikipedia and wikis in general, just a case in point.
> >>
> >> • To make sure we not only preserve the guys who partake in this photo
> >> contest, we also plan to teach them how to edit and become
> >> wikieditors, we shall run an article writing competition later after
> >> which we can now award a single ticket to Wikimania 2012 for the best
> >> article which ought to be of a very high quality.
> >>
> >> Your opinions of how to make this take place are highly longed-for and
> >> revered.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Stephen.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/28/11, Alex Wafula <xelawafs@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi guys,
> >> >
> >> > I've got updates on this and ofcourse feedback will be awesome. I had a
> >> > chat
> >> > with Andrew from Perth, Australia and he had some great suggestions.
> >> > I'll be
> >> > a bit tied up during the day so I'll email you on this later on in the
> >> > evening.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Alex
> >> >
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