Hi Guys, My take on the duration would be to do for a week max. Honestly with the kind of Kenya Culture we got, I am kinda scared that pushing the Challenge for a longer period will lose its flavor. Plus Not many participants will push on...IMO For the prizes, I would suggest swags and phones be grand prizes. However we should not oblige the participants of WTN to the Editing Contest; the two should be totally different. On 10/2/11, Abbas Mahmood <abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com> wrote: -- Limoke Oscar,

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 &lt;xelawafs(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: -- Isaac K. Kosgei. Bachelor of Agribusiness Management +254727553981 *SkypeProfile: *Kipsizoo *My Linkedin Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/kipsizoo>* *twitter Page <http://twitter.com/#%21/kipsizoo>* *My Blog <http://kipsizoo.blogspot.com/> "My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world" *- Faye Wattleton

Alex, No offence intended but I am scared if not bored of having to dress officially to come to Strathmore. August memorial Park is great.Plus its in town and cheaper to get there :-) Though the one month is still long--IMO Cheers, On 10/2/11, Kosgei Isaac &lt;kipchogekosgei(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Limoke Oscar,

Just a thought; As we prepare for this event I find it wise if we create an event on our Facebook page and a dedicated twitter handle that we shall use to follow this up. The event page could consist of the prizes to be won, benefits of participating e.t..c So we need to settle on the prizes ASAP. Do we have a twitter account? If yes please let the admin ping me for a word or two regarding this if there is none please let me know and I wil go right ahead to create one...... regards, stephen

Thanks for the clarification. I just want to say that I am against the idea of another editing competition since I still do not believe that it's the best way to retain editors. Sincerely, Abbas Mahmood, Learners' Voice 2011 Member: World Innovation Summit for Education http://www.wise-qatar.org Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 07:22:35 -0700 From: xelawafs(a)yahoo.com To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikipedia Takes Nairobi 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 uniStart date: suggestions - beginning of November, end of NoivemberJudges: 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 BoardAs for ICT Board, I can only confirm their presence during the awards ceremony and maybe some media attention. cheers,Alex Steve, 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. 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. how 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. 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. _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

hi, on the duration of the competion, i think 1 - 2 weeks would be fine but then encourage the participants and WMKE members to continue uploading photos after the competiton because we are sure to miss some important structures.. the tom mboya statue for example, which has been hoisted but is yet been unveiled.

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Well thought of, that makes a lot of sense all together! Having the contest in November/ December will make it quite not a success, come to think of it! Pushing it to January on the other hand makes some good sense out of this. Similarly, I'd suggest we use November/ December to market the contest instead then come January, 'execution'' will be the key word! //cliff On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Abbas Mahmood &lt;abbasjnr(a)hotmail.com&gt; wrote:

Really? When do people do exams, then? If some people wouldn't be having exams in November, they'll probably be _preparing_ for upcoming exams -- and from experience, students don't want to engage in other activities when they are revising for exams. Moreover, I still feel we have a lot to do: -print banners, advertise-finalise the budget-give Wikimedia France at least a week (at best) to discuss, and approve the budget.-give another week to get the wire transfer into a Kenyan bank account.-buy the prizes (which are still undecided)-choose the jury (that will select the winners) If you think that you can pull that off within this month, then best of luck with that. Abbas Mahmood, Learners' Voice 2011 Member: World Innovation Summit for Education http://www.wise-qatar.org Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:34:57 +0300 From: chriwaustin(a)gmail.com To: wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikipedia Takes Nairobi Hi, i don't think anyone has exams in November. The date set is quite OK (3rd Nov) and more so as stipulated the competition will only take two weeks. Regards -- Chris A. Riwa Research Specialist and Consultant Mobile: +254(0)725-930-850 e-mail: chriwaustin@gmail.comotieno_chris@yahoo.com chriwaustin(a)facebook.com Facebook: facebook.com/chriwaustin _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake

I already did: let's do it in January. (although I'm not one the organizers [it's Alex and team] -- so if they feel that they can pull it off with the current dates, then so be it) And what are the prizes that have been decided? And if they have been decided, I presume that WMFr has already received the budget, right? --Abbas.