Greetings Kivuva,

Its so nice to finally "meet". I was among the guys who took part in the Kiswahli Wikipedua Challenge. Together with a coupl of others, we started Wikimedia Kenya with the sole aim of supporting free and educational content especially local on the internet and providing access to Kenyans.

I have no physical plan on how we can approach this but since we have just initiated contact, I believe this is the 1st key step. Maybe we can have a physical meetup with guys from your team and from our team and then brainstorm on some possible areas of synch and cooperation.We have an upcoming Chapters meetup sometime next month at the iHub and if you guys will be around, I would love you to attend and then we pick it from there.I will inform you on the dates soon.

I would really love to meet with the brains behind this great initiative. I believe we will be of great benefit to each other working as a team in achieving our goals.

You can have a glance of what we are/have been working on here: http://wikimedia.or.ke/Main_Page

Meanwhile could the Team members of WMKE please share on some of the possible ways we could work with this guys? Just to get the discussion going? Thanks

Look forward to hearing from you.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Kivuva Kivuva@transworldafrica.com wrote:

Thank you Limoke. Its good to hear that the local chapter of Wikipedia.org is active and vibrant.

I first heard of this group wayback in 2009 when Mediawiki was conducting local campaigns to enroll more content writers especially from public universities.

Kenya.or.ke was conceptualised in 2007 with the aim of having local content written by locals or anybody with a good experience of kenya and all facets of information and data that can be relevant to the Kenyan scenario.

Indeed we would love to collaborate with the group and enhance the Kenyan information presence on the internet. Do you have an idea of how we should approach it?

Regards Kivuva

On 26/04/2012, Limoke Oscar limoke@wikimedia.or.ke wrote:

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Dear Lordmesh,

I just dug tis from my archives and thought I could loop you in. So a couple of the KWC winners took up the initiative of starting up a Kenyan Wikimedia Chapter( http://www.wikimedia.or.ke/Home) and we got

recognition

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from the Wikimedia Foundation as the 2nd chapter in Africa and the 39th worldwide. We have been quite an active lot and if you guys are

interested,

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we could find a way to work together to increase Local Kenyan Content online both in Wikipedia and the kenya.or.ke

Please let me know what your thoughts are .

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 4:25 PM, lordmwesh lordmwesh@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi good people,

As we wind up the old decade and enter the new decade where information technology will grow more than before, did you know that you can enhance kenya's history by updating, and writing about Kenya on the kenyan wiki http://www.kenya.or.ke

kenya.or.KE is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. kenya.or.KE is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this

page

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link. kenya.or.KE is a wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. www.kenya.or.KE was founded in 2007, with the ami of

being

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the largest reference Web sites about Kenya.

kenya.or.ke is advertisement free and is supported by well wishers, and publishers like you.

Create an account and start posting.

Regards

kenya.or.ke | The Kenya we know

-- Limoke Oscar Board Member- Wikimedia Kenya www.wikimedia.or.ke

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