Excellent, it's settled then.
I'll proceed off-list with Limoke.
Thanks for the timely responses! Much appreciated.
P.S. Andrew Owens of Wikimedia Australia, who has recently run a successful Wikipedia Takes The City event in Perth (Western Australia), has volunteered to help WMKE with Wikipedia Takes Nairobi planning.
Asaf
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Abbas Mahmood abbasjnr@hotmail.comwrote:
Fine with me too.
Abbas Mahmood, Learners' Voice 2011 Member: World Innovation Summit for Education http://www.wise-qatar.org
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:14:40 -0700 From: xelawafs@yahoo.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Setswana Wikipedia Challenge
I'm super cool with Limoke going, so +1
Alex.
On Mon Sep 19th, 2011 10:26 AM PDT Limoke Oscar wrote:
Hey, I would love to should Abbas and Alex permit.Since the timelines are
pretty
tight,Will start I hope we agree ASAP on who would go to allow time to
plan.
Thanks, 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
Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation
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