This is really exciting and a great initiative; best of luck!
Also, if the students are particularly interested in Wikipedia and continued involvement in the project, you might want to consider encouraging them to form a "student club" to promote further organization and editing of Wikipedia on the campus! more information can be found on the Outreach wiki:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Student_Organizations
All the best -
Jessie
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:37 AM, stephen wanjau
<wanjaustev@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
So to give a status update on the Kabarak trip;
The partakers shall be leaving for Nakuru from Nairobi on Friday the
23rd September 2011. The real occasion shall be the day after, which
is 24th. (This Coming Saturday).
The long-established attendees so far are:
1. Stephen W. Wanjau.
2. Abbas Mahmoud.
Any other interested attendees should feel free to indicate their
availability for this outreach mission on this mailing list.
==our activities there==
•We shall involve the students in Editing both the Swahili and English
Wikipedia. To start us off we shall write about the recent Zanzibar
ferry tragedy which is at present pigeon-holed WP: RA under Swahili.
•We shall also elucidate to the students how to upload photos and
other resources to the numerous Wikimedia projects and generally how
they can get involved in Wikimedia Projects.
•How the campus can help Wikimedia Kenya to distribute copies of the
offline Wikipedia, maybe as an extra-curricular activity.
(FEEL without obstruction to add onto this list of events that shall
make the day a success)
==Transport and Food==
As decided in the course of our last meet up at Strathmore University,
we established it wise that all the participants to Kabarak University
shall cater for their own transport and food to and from Nakuru and a
rough estimate of this figure was projected to around KES 2200 per
head. These sums shall be reimbursed as soon as we get the start-up
grant which is still being drafted before being presented to The
Grants Board.
In case of any more information on this topic feel permitted to ask.
If it shall be your first time to Nakuru, you can catch me on +254 722 238 165.
==Departure==
Preferably, I would suggest we leave as a team from Nairobi probably
in the afternoon of Friday.
Yours,
--
Jessie Wild
Global Development, Manager
Wikimedia Foundation