Hi Abbas, I hate doing this but I think its time we all start attending this
sessions to at least to gain some personal experience about what goes on
before we pose our criticism on what goes on. FYI this was the 2nd meet-up
held in JKUAT.
We concentrated our editing on the Challenges meta as well as the Swahili
Wikipedia. I clearly included all this in the minutes.
However, these sessions are the only frequent meet-ups we are going to
engage in as WMKE. So its time we adapt to the changing roles of the
sessions and position ourselves appropriately to ensure all areas of need
are met effectively.
So kindly issues like few members editing should be dealt with by you guys
showing up as much as possible and teaching more memberss on how to go about
editing.
Therefore, lets get down to business and sort the pressing matters at hand.
You gyts are up next in organizing for our next meet-up. We are looking up
to you now
Sincerely, Riwa
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:27 PM, lilian nyarera <lireshi(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
FYI Abbas, it's quite healthy for a group to meet
and not edit!
From what I know about how to handle groups, bonding sessions are
important. People can meet and talk. talking involves setting objectives
about what they are going to do next. In this case WTN matters were
discussed and targets laid. Thru that we'll surely have a large pool to
work on.
My point : it was a whole multitasking &multithreading event! So much was
done besides editing.
Regards,
Lilian.
On Sun Jun 26th, 2011 2:12 AM PDT stephen wanjau wrote:
Abbas,
I like your positive criticism on the minutes posted herein somehow.
But remember We cannot sit back quiet about some pertinent issues that
concern our chapter because we were editting wikipedia.FYI, We typed as we
talked and it seemed a better chance since we never have any other meet
ups. Do we?
No one, even you had mentioned anything about logistics to be laid down as
we host Asaf in a months time. Or if that's not important please let me
know.
Asaf's visit thread in the mailing list is the shortest in ranking if I
compared to; the recent SA visit whose emails came in like it was a live
chat , the WTN thread (do you even know it exists?),the Mombasa pilot, the
Kakamega pilot and the Nyeri pilot were also 'well discussed'.
However, I would like to inform you and other members who did not attend
that the usual editting was done and probably in deeper detail.
* Chris n Sarah shall be looking for places and names in Nairobi then fill
in the targets at our WTN goals wiki -I bet they can only do this only if
they know how to edit wikipedia.
*Alex shall be filling in the scavenger hunt site with reference to the
populated Wiki.
* Oscar L. And I shall write Kiswahili stubs about places with non-
existant
articles since members withdrew from swahili
citing they are not quite
comfortable with swahili language. Do you know why Swahili and not
English?
Oscar took the newbie who attended through the whole induction and be
informed he learnt very quickly and he has an article already. Let me lias
with him then I would probably forward you his wikipedia username, for
content moderation!
I am beginning to speculate there are volunteers who are more equal than
others!
In peace and Very truly,
stephen w. wanjau
Phone: +254 771 557 857
twitter:haha_wanjau
B.Sc statistics and computer science.
JKUAT
On Jun 26, 2011 11:33 AM, "Abbas Mahmood" <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I love the enthusiasm that JKUAT folks have. However, I hate to break it
down to you that WikiSaturday is (as far as I'm concerned) not aimed to
discuss matters pertaining WMKE but more importantly to teach members how
to
edit.
I know that the matters in your agenda are paramount, but in the general
Wikimedia community, editing is a top priority:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study. Sadly, editing
was
not even explicitly mentioned in your agenda.I
honestly do believe that
editing should be number 1 on your agenda, since less than a fifth of the
current members are Wikipedia editors.
Just a suggestion.
//abbas.
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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:25 +0300
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Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wiki-Saturday Minutes
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