and any other happenings.A good number of my friends have shown interest and would be glad to join us.thnaks once again and good luck to all of us.
Oliver,seems like Dennis is not interested in our idea.He has never responded to my request.perhaps you could request him and inform him to of the KU meeting too,perhaps ,he might respond to your request.
thanks too.
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:44:30 +0300
From: "Oliver Stegen" <oliver_stegen@sil.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Latest Updates
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Thanks, Abbas, for the update.
Knowing me, you will expect me to especially like points nos. 5 and 6 of the
SA WMF chapter draft purposes:
* To build/facilitate/disseminate/provide knowledge in all SAfrican
languages
* To contribute to the development of local languages (all South African
languages)
Correspondingly, I've been looking at the Kikuyu wikipedia
(http://ki.wikipedia.org <http://ki.wikipedia.org/> ) which could use some
more support just like the Zulu one (http://zu.wikipedia.org
<http://zu.wikipedia.org/> ) in SA.
Just to add one more development on our own chapter network:
We expect to meet with Dr. Martin Njoroge at Kenyatta University sometime
between Sep 9 and 17 (date to be confirmed) in order to discuss
collaboration and potential opportunities for mutual support (Dr. Njoroge is
the Director of the Confucius Institute, organiser of last month's
international conference on multilingualism here in Nairobi, and a member of
the Multilingual Education Network East Africa).
Wenu katika kujenga elimu,
Oliver (aka BT)
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From: wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediake-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Abbas Mahmoud
Sent: 13 August 2010 11:24
To: Wikimedia Kenya
Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] Latest Updates
Hello folks,
It's been a while since I last communicated with you guys, but I have some
updates regarding our chapter, the South African Chapter and Wikimedia in
general.
WIKIMEDIA KENYA
I recently received intelligence from Wikimedia Foundation about Omidyar
Network. Omidyar Network is an NGO that funds Wikimedia and also gives
financial assistance to companies in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, etc. I was also
told that there could be a high possibility that they could support our
upcoming chapter get off the ground. I was given some connections and I have
contacted one of them and I am yet to receive a reply.
Wimedia South Africa:
Also, Delphine was on holiday over the past couple of weeks so we weren't
able to communicate regarding our chapter's progress. However, she recently
went to a workshop held by the South African Chapter and came up with a
report. Please see the report at the end of this email. I would also kindly
urge you to subscribe to the South African mailing list so that we can
receive up-to-date intel of what our counterparts are doing. Visit
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza to subscribe. Also
see their meta page for more info:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa.
On the news:
There has been an interesting saga where the FBI wants it's seal to be
removed from Wikipedia. Read the full story on the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html?_r=1. (This is a must-read
article:-)).
It is also interesting to note that the Swahili Wikipedia, now having 18,000
articles is now the largest African-language Wikipedia beating the Africaans
(South African) Wikipedia that has 15,000 articles!
That's all from me,
I am, yours,
Abbas Mahmoud.
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:20:14 +0000
From: Abbas Mahmoud <abbasjnr@hotmail.com>
Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] FW: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa,
kickoff Workshop - 7/8 August 2010
To: Wikimedia Kenya <wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org>
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Below is Delphine's report.
Regards,
Abbas.
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> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:14:15 +0200
> From: notafishz@gmail.com
> To: wikimediaza@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Wikimedia South Africa, kickoff Workshop - 7/8 August 2010
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am finally finding five minutes to thank you all for the warm
> welcome and to reiterate that Bence and I, as well as any other member
> of the chapters committee, are here to help with any questions you
> might have.
>
> Here is our "wikimedia report" of our workshop.
>
> Best,
>
> Delphine
>
> ========
> Wikimedia South Africa, kickoff Workshop - 7/8 August 2010
>
> == BACKGROUND ==
> Wikimedia activities in South Africa are not exactly new, in 2007,
> iCommons and the Wikimedia Foundation organised a Wikipedia Academy in
> Johannesburg, while a group of Wikimedians started to put together a
> bid for Wikimania. The South African chapter idea probably finds its
> roots in those two initiatives, but for lack of momentum at the time,
> did not pick up. In 2010, Achal Prabhala, member of the advisory board
> of the Wikimedia Foundation, who helped found the Indian Chapter, put
> the idea back on track.
>
> Achal, with the help of Kerryn McKay and Daniela Faris of the African
> Commons Project [1], advertised the idea of a workshop to kick off a
> South African chapter, and invited various wikipedians and otherwise
> interested people (FOSS activists, users of Wikipedia, non-profit
> experienced people) to participate in a workshop destined to kick off
> a South African chapter.
>
> == WORKSHOP ==
> The Workshop gathered around 25 people [2] from different backgrounds,
> among which Ian Gilfillan, who had been leading the Wikimania bid and
> Nhlanhla Mabaso, Head of CNS at The Universtiy of the Witwatersrand,
> who played a great role in reaching out far and wide for interested
> (and interesting) people. Bence Damokos and myself attended as members
> of the chapters committee.
>
> === Saturday, 7th August ===
> The session started with an introduction to the Wikimedia Universe,
> focusing on the existing organisations (Foundation and Chapters) and
> outlining the existing processes to set up a chapter, as well as what
> chapters do.
> After a round of introduction of each of the participants, the group
> then split into smaller working sessions which reflected on the
> following topics:
> *Potential activities and initiatives for a South African Chapter
> *Vision of a Wikimedia Chapter in South Africa
> *Purpose of a Wikimedia Chapter in South Africa
> *Challenges that a Wikimedia Chapter in South Africa might face
>
> The results of these sessions can be found on meta here:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_South_Africa&oldid=2072112
>
>
> Of those results, two have particularly caught our attention as being
> specific to South Africa, or at least different than one might expect
> from such a session in other chapter groups, namely:
>
> *Ownership of Wikimedia to South Africans (in the purpose section):
> this was meant as giving the chapter the task of making sure that
> Wikimedia projects don't appear too "foreign" or even too "western",
> but rather would hopefully be recognized as fair in representing South
> Africa but also the whole African continent.
>
> *Documenting content which is only orally available; finding a
> workable citation method for languages with oral traditions (in the
> challenges section): a task which actually questions fundamental
> pillars of Wikipedia (no original research and "cite your sources")
> and is much more critical in many of the African languages than maybe
> in western languages.
>
> A third point that was unique - so far - to South Africa, though maybe
> less novel than the above two was the role and share of mobile
> internet access and the associated opportunities and challenges that
> it will bring. Africa is a continent where internet access through
> mobile phones is the rule rather than the exception, and efforts to
> make Wikipedia accessible not only to read, but also to edit, are a
> real challenge that an African chapter should tackle.
>
> === Sunday, 8th August ===
> The Sunday session focused rather on presenting and discussing the
> different legal options for a Chapter in South Africa as well as work
> on a timeline of next steps and the formation of a team for the
> creation of the chapter. Results can be found here:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_South_Africa&oldid=2072112#Proposed_Timeline
>
> == CONCLUSION ==
> The idea of fostering the creation of a chapter by enabling people to
> meet, specifically reaching out to potentially interested people and
> bringing them together for a workshop is somewhat of a novel idea in
> chapter creation. We found it to be extremely interesting and
> productive. It allows, in countries where getting together, or taking
> the first (legal) steps might be a real hurdle to chapter creation, to
> be extremely helpful in ensuring that diversity of the people
> represented in the first step of the chapter is achieved.
>
> Bence and I would like to thank Achal for starting this process,
> Kerryn and Daniela for organising the workshop and everyone present
> for their participation and the lively dicussions. We are confident
> that such initiatives should be fostered in countries where founding a
> chapter might encounter difficulties to emerge.
>
> The future of Wikimedia South Africa is discussed on the wikimediaza
> mailing list:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza, as well as
> on meta. Please join the conversation.
>
>
> [1] http://www.africancommons.org/about/
> [2] http://picasaweb.google.com/davidrichfield/Wikimedia#5502986611082048162
>
> --
> ~notafish
>
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