Thanks so much Asaf you really inspired us. Members I enjoyed Wikimania 2011 and I must say it was a big experience to me. I want to thank Jessie Wild for her invaluable support and Guidance, Abbas for being with us every step of the way, Ting Chen for his advice. I met and held several meetings with editors from all over the world and the most notable ones were as follows: 1. A meeting with Wikimedia UK members including the chair person Roger Bamkin- who FYI paid for my ticket and accommodation expenses, I also met with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough and together we presented a project on the translation of HIV/AIDS information into local languages in Sub Saharan Africa with Kenya as a Lead chapter. 2.Meeting with various members of the New york Chapter. 3. Meeting with Italian Chapter members-they are interested in supporting Kenyan Chapter. I also met the following people briefly- Sue Gardner-Wikimedia Ceo, Jimmy Wales-Wikimedia Founder,Frank Schulenburg Global Education Program Director, and almost all the Board members. Check out the Photos in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kipsizoo Here is one of the mails I got as a follow up to one of the meetings I held.

I will be Presenting a Guest Talk at Harvard University in the USA in September this year and I will have a meeting with John Kerry and so many other People, Rest assured that I will =================================================================================================== Hi Isaac,

Thanks a lot for our meeting yesterday. As promised, I'm sending you a short summary of what we talked about.

The Kenyan Wikimedia chapter is planning a project to improve the Swahili Wikipedia in the areas health (especially information about HIV), law and agriculture. The project is expected to start in September 2011 and will involve universities in Nairobi. Your plan is to encourage students to translate a number of select high-quality articles from the English Wikipedia into Swahili.

Based on the fact that the Wikimedia Foundation started a Global Education Program this month and that we gathered substantial experiences in working with universities over the last year, you are asking for the following support:

1. Guidance, best practices and lessons learnt: information of what worked and what didn't work in the past. Ideally, this would happen in form of a face to face meeting with members of the chapters and the local community in Nairobi.

2. Media exposure: some help with raising interest of local media in Kenya.

3. Sue Gardner being in Kenya: every second half of the year, Sue is travelling to a number of countries to talk about Wikipedia and Wikimedia. You thought it might be great to have her in Nairobi to talk to students and teachers.

4. Professor outreach and recruitment: we've had the experience that university professors are eager to talk to someone of the Wikimedia Foundation. It proved to be beneficial to start university outreach with in person meetings.

5. Fellowship: in India, we provided one of our US volunteers with a 3-month fellowship so he could coordinate the program activities on the ground. Currently, PJ Tabit, one of our Ambassadors from George Washington university is in Pune and helps the local team to get the India Education Program started. Alex Stinson told me yesterday that he is interested in coming to Kenya next year to support you.

6. Exchange program: a volunteer from Kenya would come to the US or some other country and learn more about the existing university program. Also, professor who used Wikipedia in the classroom in the past would come to Kenya to talk about his experiences and to encourage Kenyan teachers to participate (we've done something similar in India: Bob Cummings, a professor from the US travelled to Pune and talked to local professors -- this has been very successful in getting teachers in Pune interested in the program.

I am copying Richard and Roger, as you indicated that Wikimedia UK would be interested in being involved in the project.

Isaac and Alex: please let me know if I forgot something and if you have more to add.

Thanks again for the meeting -- I really enjoyed it.

Frank Frank Schulenburg Global Education Program Director Wikimedia Foundation ===================================================================================================

Lastly guys I think it would be important that we have a meet up so that we share the expirience.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 14:25, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:

I would like to commend WMKE's representatives, Alex and Isaac, for their excellent participation in Wikimania. They have both been active in and out of the sessions, exchanging ideas and experience with their peers from around the world, offering input during the sessions, and socializing and creating contacts during the breaks and the parties.

That's the way you do it! :)

I look forward to seeing all of you very soon (next week!) in Nairobi.

Asaf

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Alex Wafula xelawafs@yahoo.com wrote:

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Hi all,

Just got back home and it's been great! I'll be catching up on campus stuff the next day or two before getting back to the list.

Isaac's been a superstar back in Haifa, laying foundations for new Wikimedia projects we can pursue in Kenya and Africa in general most notably being this: http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule/Lightning_Talks#AIDS.2FHIV_...

Other viable projects we've been involved in, collected contacts and hope can be pursued locally are:

• Offline Wikipedia
• Campus Ambassadors program
• WikiAfrica (looking forward to assist us in local projects)
• Wikipedia Takes the City (Wikimedia France are willing to fund this.

Abbas got in touch and I eventually got to meet the chapter's president)

• Wiki loves Monuments
• Research on Oral Citation (presented by Achal, awesome guy!)

Well there's a lot to cover so we'll probably result to having different threads for specific topics. Look out for the pics, coming up soon! Anyhu, I'm off to take a nap.

Ps: Asaf's coming next week and he's really looking to his stay here.

cheers, Alex

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From: info@oliverstegen.net wrote:

Could someone kindly direct me to the schedule of next week’s events? Thanks!

Oliver (aka BT)

Oliver, Below is Asaf's schedule: 15th: University of Nairobi (afternoon)16th: TSLG meeting (morning)17th: Strathmore (morning), Google meeting (afternoon), iHub talk with the tech community (evening)18th: Mombasa (whole day) In case there's any like-minded institution that you might want us to include in the schedule, you could use the attached doc to approach them. Thanks, Abbas.

From: Isaac K. Kosgei [mailto:kips8505izo@gmail.com]

Sent: 10 August 2011 14:52

To: The discussion list for the upcoming Wikimedia Kenya chapter.

Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania

Thanks so much Asaf you really inspired us.

Members I enjoyed Wikimania 2011 and I must say it was a big experience to me. I want to thank Jessie Wild for her invaluable support and Guidance, Abbas for being with us every step of the way, Ting Chen for his advice.

I met and held several meetings with editors from all over the world and the most notable ones were as follows:

1. A meeting with Wikimedia UK members including the chair person Roger Bamkin- who FYI paid for my ticket and accommodation expenses, I also met with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rich_Farmbrough and together we presented a project on the translation of HIV/AIDS information into local languages in Sub Saharan Africa with Kenya as a Lead chapter.

2.Meeting with various members of the New york Chapter.

3. Meeting with Italian Chapter members-they are interested in supporting Kenyan Chapter.

I also met the following people briefly- Sue Gardner-Wikimedia Ceo, Jimmy Wales-Wikimedia Founder,Frank Schulenburg

Global Education Program Director, and almost all the Board members. Check out the Photos in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kipsizoo

Here is one of the mails I got as a follow up to one of the meetings I held.

<snip>

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Isaac, See my comments below: Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:51:50 +0300 From: kips8505izo@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania

Thanks so much Asaf you really inspired us. Members I enjoyed Wikimania 2011 and I must say it was a big experience to me. I want to thank Jessie Wild for her invaluable support and Guidance, Abbas for being with us every step of the way, Ting Chen for his advice. And thanks to David, who offered financial assistance as well :) 3. Meeting with Italian Chapter members-they are interested in supporting Kenyan Chapter. Great!!

The Kenyan Wikimedia chapter is planning a project to improve the Swahili Wikipedia in the areas health (especially information about HIV), law and agriculture. The project is expected to start in September 2011 and will involve universities in Nairobi. Your plan is to encourage students to translate a number of select high-quality articles from the English Wikipedia into Swahili.

Ermmm, what translation project are you talking about?

5. Fellowship: in India, we provided one of our US volunteers with a 3-month fellowship so he could coordinate the program activities on the ground. Currently, PJ Tabit, one of our Ambassadors from George Washington university is in Pune and helps the local team to get the India Education Program started. Alex Stinson told me yesterday that he is interested in coming to Kenya next year to support you.

+1. BTW, in January, I was in talks with the Public Policy Initiative team and they had proposed for Frank to come to our Wiki10 Anniversary but he couldn't due to clashes in dates, since he was also invited to Hungary at around the same time.

6. Exchange program: a volunteer from Kenya would come to the US or some other country and learn more about the existing university program. Also, professor who used Wikipedia in the classroom in the past would come to Kenya to talk about his experiences and to encourage Kenyan teachers to participate (we've done something similar in India: Bob Cummings, a professor from the US travelled to Pune and talked to local professors -- this has been very successful in getting teachers in Pune interested in the program.

+1

Thanks for your efforts! Long live Wikimania. //abbas.

Grace and Oliver, There will be a meeting with the chapter members -- sorry, I had forgotten to include it in the schedule. It might probably be on Monday or Tuesday, still unsure because we haven't gotten a venue, yet: iHub's full in the August. Any other alternative recommendations will be highly appreciated :) Abbas. Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:36:33 +0300 From: gkariuki99@gmail.com To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania

hi everyone.Alex and Isaac thanks for being good ambasadors and representing us fully.

I look foward to next week.just a little enqiury.will Asaf hold a meeting with us upon arriving before we go to the university if nairobi?

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbasjnr@hotmail.com wrote:

Isaac, See my comments below:

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:51:50 +0300 From: kips8505izo@gmail.com

To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] Wikimania

Thanks so much Asaf you really inspired us. Members I enjoyed Wikimania 2011 and I must say it was a big experience to me. I want to thank Jessie Wild for her invaluable support and Guidance, Abbas for being with us every step of the way, Ting Chen for his advice.

And thanks to David, who offered financial assistance as well :) 3. Meeting with Italian Chapter members-they are interested in supporting Kenyan Chapter.

Great!!

The Kenyan Wikimedia chapter is planning a project to improve the Swahili Wikipedia in the areas health (especially information about HIV), law and agriculture. The project is expected to start in September 2011 and will involve universities in Nairobi. Your plan is to encourage students to translate a number of select high-quality articles from the English Wikipedia into Swahili.

Ermmm, what translation project are you talking about?

5. Fellowship: in India, we provided one of our US volunteers with a 3-month fellowship so he could coordinate the program activities on the ground. Currently, PJ Tabit, one of our Ambassadors from George Washington university is in Pune and helps the local team to get the India Education Program started. Alex Stinson told me yesterday that he is interested in coming to Kenya next year to support you.

+1. BTW, in January, I was in talks with the Public Policy Initiative team and they had proposed for Frank to come to our Wiki10 Anniversary but he couldn't due to clashes in dates, since he was also invited to Hungary at around the same time.

6. Exchange program: a volunteer from Kenya would come to the US or some other country and learn more about the existing university program. Also, professor who used Wikipedia in the classroom in the past would come to Kenya to talk about his experiences and to encourage Kenyan teachers to participate (we've done something similar in India: Bob Cummings, a professor from the US travelled to Pune and talked to local professors -- this has been very successful in getting teachers in Pune interested in the program.

+1

Thanks for your efforts! Long live Wikimania. //abbas.

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