Hi to everybody on the KE-chapter,

Limoke: Dennis is very busy guy. It's happened to me as well when we were processing the possibility of making the google challenge happens. He was not replying the message promptly, but late. However, I don't think if don't agree with your ideas because they expect to initiate a new project which would held on EA's contries. So, let's just forgive him. On my side, I can't do anything than suggestion since everything can be done only in Nairobea! Cheers.

Wenu,

Muddyb

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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:30:30 -0700 From: Barry Newstead bnewstead@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Latest Updates To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4C656516.9060006@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Thanks Abbas. It is exciting to see the Kenyan community moving toward chapter formation.

A few suggestions/thoughts:

• Please do connect with members of ChapCom[1]; they can provide advice

based on their experience working with other countries on chapter formation which might help you to avoid problems that other groups have faced in the past

• The South Africa experience was helped by the support of people at

Africa Commons, who are an existing organization and have been able to provide support; it might be good to connect with a similar organization in Kenya

• If you need some funds to support the launch process (e.g., to fund

legal work or to organize a workshop), I can provide a grant to help with these expenses; please follow up with me when you are ready

• If you are going to connect with the Omidyar Network, please keep me

in the loop; I know them well and they are already supporting Wikimedia; it would be valuable to keep our communications open as multiple parts of the Wikimedia movement connect with them

Kind regards, Barry

[1] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_committee http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter_committee

On 08/13/2010 02:44 AM, Oliver Stegen wrote:

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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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