Salute!
To align the Wikimedians in Kenya to it is current state, the social
media accounts should as well be renamedto the new name. What has been
settled on as the new name?
.S
On 03/12/2013 02:51 PM, Oliver Stegen wrote:
Thanks for this cautious and tentative initiative. I continue to be
active as a Wikimedian (cf.
http://toolserver.org/~purodha/sample/dbswithuser.php?usr=Baba_Tabita&g…
<http://toolserver.org/%7Epurodha/sample/dbswithuser.php?usr=Baba_Tabita&go=Go%21&uselang=en>)
and I am based in Kenya, so that presumably makes me a … Wikimedian in
Kenya J
Yours for making the sum of human knowledge available to everyone on
this planet (and in my case, especially to everyone in the
Swahili-speaking communities),
BT (aka Oliver)
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*From:*dennis munene [mailto:deontemunene@hotmail.com]
*Sent:* 12 March 2013 12:13
*To:* Wikimedia Kenya
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] From chapter to user group
hi,
I agree with Oscar, we were our own let down. Being a User Group
should not in any way dwindle our commitment. You can count me in as
part of the User Group [Wikimedians in Kenya?] :)
dennis.
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From: oslimoke(a)gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:38:04 +0300
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] From chapter to user group
Hi All,
I know all of us have been absorbing and digesting this news over the
past couple of weeks. I think its time we now discussed and forged a
way forward. True we were our own let down in many ways. We failed in
many ways to steer ourselves to full registration 12 months after
being granted charter. We failed to get legal registration locally and
we failed to manage the 1st Start up grant for our Chapter. We failed
to resolve issues surrounding the embezzlement and we refused to
take responsibility I think Sue and Asaf are justified to deny
us further recognition.
So I guess its a User group we are. As such, we need to start to chat
a way forward along this line. Could we start taking a new call for
this user group? Remember, Officially Wikimedia Kenya Chapter is no more
If you would want to join and be apart of this user group, please let
us start a conversation Only if you are interested.
Look forward to this new course.
Best,
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:abartov@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Dear colleagues in Kenya,
I would like to let you know that (after consultation with the
Affiliations Committee) the Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director,
Sue Gardner, is not extending the Board of Trustees' provisional
recognition of your group as Wikimedia Kenya. We recommend you
pursue recognition as Wikimedia User Group instead.
The recognition was conditional upon incorporation within a year, and
that has not happened. In addition, the provisional board
disintegrated (with some people leaving the chapter entirely) and no
replacement announced, almost no activity took place this past year,
casting doubt on the group's sustainability as a chapter, and certain
personal issues added much confusion and demoralization, which no
doubt contributed to the inactivity.
In parallel, the Wikimedia movement has created new models of
affiliation, not available at the time your group was seeking
recognition, that we are confident would better serve your group at
this stage, and would be more appropriate, than the traditional
incorporated chapter model.
Specifically, we encourage you to seek Wikimedia User Group
recognition (via AffCom -- e-mail affcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:affcom@lists.wikimedia.org>) right now, which will give you
almost all the benefits of chapter recognition, with almost none of
the bureaucracy: trademark permission will be available to you, and as
you know, grants are always available, even to unincorporated groups
(and we will take steps to improve group oversight and governance to
minimize risk). Everything I know about this group and about AffCom
suggests this should be a smooth process.
Note that this does mean that the name "Wikimedia Kenya" should no
longer be used by you or others to refer to your group, and
specifically, that you are not to incorporate under that name. (It is
best if incorporation under any name is postponed until there's a
better idea of the group's interest, capacity, and plans. Creating a
formal entity prematurely could saddle you with inconvenient
responsibilities without any of the benefits.)
"Wikimedians in Kenya", "Friends of Wikipedia in Kenya", and any
number of other names you may feel comfortable with, are good
possibilities for the name of your group, and can be recognized by the
WMF if you do choose to pursue User Group recognition.
We'd like to stress this is neither a punishment nor a demotion of
your group; it is actually an adjustment of what we call the group to
match reality and to adhere to the original terms of the provisional
recognition. We recognize your dedicated and valuable contributions
in the past, and look forward to renewed energy and accomplishments on
this new path, as a user group, and will be happy to support you in
this in every way we can.
On behalf of Sue Gardner and the Wikimedia Foundation,
Asaf Bartov
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