Hi All,
Great stuff. Will be meeting Eric Latiff sometime this week and I will
surely discuss this with him.
As for dates: One month period will be Ok and I concur with Alex's
suggestion for Nov.
On 02/10/2011, Alex Wafula <xelawafs(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks for posting this Steve,
First of all, apologies for the prolonged silence on this, I've been
short
on time.
So regarding funding, last time I spoke to Adrienne from Wikimedia
France,
she said they'd be willing to fund this but of-course we'll need to submit
a
budget for them to look at and I believe I mentioned this when I setup
the
Google doc so hope I'm clear this time, budget needs to be filled up.
An article writing competition as a follow-up should be great, when KWC
happened, there were no Wikimedian's (as participants) involved but right
now, we have Wikimedians so worst case scenario, we'll have new /
improved
articles, best case, more edits past the competition. During KWC, there
was
no follow-up on editing, we are here to do that now so hopefully, this
will
reignite article editing and it's my hope that wmke can sustain this past
the competition.
Feedback also needed:
* Venue for awards ceremony: suggestions so far - Bomb blast memorial
park,
Strathmore uni
* Start date: suggestions - beginning of November, end of Noivember
* Judges: I believe here's where Eric Latiff should come in handy,
getting
guys from media and photography industries in Kenya to judge would be
great (NB: not solely ie, we'll help) so Isaac...
* Focus groups: ie people we should target fro the challenge. I'm
already
in contact with a group of photographers
A suggestion put forward to sustain activity on WTN over a long period
(more
than a day) is to focus outreach on different regions (CBD, Westlands,
Eastlands etc) as the competition goes along, thoughts on this are
welcome.
Updates:
* In-touch with Isla Haddow, project manager for WikiAfrica who'll be
assisting in getting word out to various cultural institutions in Africa,
plan to touch base with her after receiving some feedback here. Iolanda
(from Wikimedia Italy) has also been helpful here.
* Google is interested in WTN as per our last meetup when Asaf was
around,
just pinged Angela (from Google) with updates on this and as agreed from
our
(wmke) chats, we won't work on their schedule so as to avoid a similar
situation with the ICT Board
* As for ICT Board, I can only confirm their presence during the awards
ceremony and maybe some media attention.
cheers,
Alex
________________________________
Steve,
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 14:42:04 +0300
From: wanjaustev(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikipedia Takes Nairobi
• 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.
yes, you're absolutely right. Even that guy from Capital (I've forgotten
his
name) told us that a one-day competition might not be the best way to go.
Wiki Loves Monuments, for instance ran through the month of September and
had over 160,000+ photo uploads. Of course I do not anticipate that we'll
get that magnitude of uploads if we run this competition for a month
(since
in WLM, around 20 countries participated), but it was just worth comparing
a
one-day competition to a one-month competition.
On that note consequently, a budget has been
prepared by a portion of
interested WMKE members [...]
I personally did not contribute to the Google Doc page regarding WTN
because
Alex told me that Wikimedia France had agreed to fund this project. I
think
we need proper clarification (from Alex) onto who's funding what, because
there seems to be a mis-communication here.
• 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.
I'm the one who suggested the Wikimania prize since it could be easily
arranged for as compared to looking for a sponsor/grant, etc. And when I
suggested this prize, I did not have the one-day competition in mind.
• 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.
Erm, a writing competition is quite controversial and didn't prove to
retain
editors in the Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge. What makes you think it
will,
this time round?
--Abbas.
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