Hey folks,
last year we experienced in organizing Wiki Loves Monuments that some of
the challenges in African countries are almost universal for the continent,
but new to us. We thought it to be helpful to set up a mailing list for
Wiki Loves Monuments in African countries, where you could share
experiences and ideas, but also ask questions to each other.
It is a public mailing list, and you're most welcome to join if you're
interested! Please feel free to forward.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wlm-africa
Lodewijk Gelauff
(international Wiki Loves Monuments team member)
Hi Folks!
I hope you are doing well. Sometime last year I mentioned that the
Nation Newspaper was interested in running an article about Wikimedia
Kenya and what the WMF does in Kenya. The Daily nation is among the top
3 newspapers in Kenya.
An editor with the newspaper just sent me an E-mail which I have
forwarded below for your attention.
regards,
Stephen.
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Subject: Get in touch asap
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:25:03 +0300
From: Elvis Ondieki <ondiekielvis(a)gmail.com>
To: stephen wanjau <wanjaustev(a)gmail.com>
Hi,
My editor has given me permission to feature the Wikimedia Kenya
chapter. I request that you be the one to help me get in touch with
other members of the team.
I need to know of your organisation structure and what you are working
on. It's urgent because the deadline for submission is tomorrow (Wednesday).
My number is 0729371254. I have misplaced yours and will be glad to have it.
Thanks and regards.
Hi folks.
Hope you are having a good start to the new year so far?
I was wondering if someone could give me an update on the status and
process of founding Wikimedia Kenya?
The original resolution to recognize it[1] would need to be extended soon,
if the information on Meta[2] is still up-to-date. I am happy to help
facilitate the process once I have more information.
Best regards,
Bence
(Chair, Affiliations Committee)
[1]
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Ken…
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters
Hi all,
After several months of negotiation, I am almost sealing a GLAM deal with the Kenya National Archives. I'm getting the necessary paperwork done, and hopefully, by January 2013, I'll have gotten the final go-ahead. So, I'm guesstimating that this project may start on Feb 2013.
The Archives has made it very clear (from the start) that it doesn't have the resources to undertake this project, so I hope that I'll manage to secure a grant from the WMF to fund the Wikipedian in Residence's compensation and all other associated costs. I've started making a draft application here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Abbas_Mahmood/Wikipedian_in_Residence…. I'm also planning on contacting WikiAfrica to 1) learn more from their GLAM projects that they've been undertaking, 2) inquire about how much it usually costs them, and 3) the challenges that they usually face.
This is NOT a public service announcement: this is just a courtesy FYI, so please do NOT distribute this news until everything is official.
Thanks, and happy holidays :-)
Abbas.
FYI, folks.
Anirudh
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From: Amit Kapoor <akapoor(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:09 AM
Subject: [Wmfcc-l] TechCrunch: $50 Android Smartphones Are Disrupting
Africa Much Faster Than You Think, Says Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales
To: Communications Committee <wmfcc-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/50-android-smartphones-are-disrupting-afri…
$50 Android Smartphones Are Disrupting Africa Much Faster Than You Think,
Says Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales
What phone does Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page> founder
Jimmy Wales have in his pocket? An unlocked Android-powered 3G smartphone,
made by Chinese mobile maker Huawei – which was selling for $85 on the
streets of Kenya last year and now goes for $50.
While the majority of Africa’s mobile phones are more basic talk-plus-text
feature phones — recent figures from analyst ABI
Research<http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/28/abi-africas-mobile-market-to-pass-80-subsc…>
suggest
3G connectivity accounts for 11 percent of the continent’s overall mobile
subscriptions vs. GSM’s 62.7 percent – 300,000 of these $50 Android
smartphones have been sold in Kenya, according to Wales and African carrier
Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore. The pair were speaking at Vodafone’s Mobile
for Good summit taking place in London today.
“What I always thought about mobile in Africa…is this [smartphone adoption]
is coming in the future — in the future someday,” said Wales. “Well the
someday’s happening faster than I ever realised.”
Wales’ own budget Android was brought back from Kenya by a friend and is
now his personal smartphone. “The screen is a little smaller than the
iPhone, it’s not quite as good but the battery lasts two days,” he joked.
The Wikipedia founder has been spending the past couple of years
working on Wikipedia
Zero <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> – a project that’s
aiming to broaden access to the online encyclopedia to those who don’t own
a computer or can’t get access to 3G mobile data – but he says the pace of
smartphone adoption in Africa is changing the digital landscape of the
continent much faster than people think.
The pace caught Wikipedia by surprise. The not-for-profit organisation had
been focusing its emerging markets’ efforts on India but is now paying a
lot more attention to Africa, thanks to the growth in ownership of cheap,
Android-powered handsets — like the one in Wales’ pocket.
“This phone actually woke my mind up,” said Wales, pulling the handset out
of his pocket and holding it up. “This is what really got me energised to
say let’s go back and take another look at Africa, because we had focused
most of our attention on India with the view that it was ready for us to do
things.”
“If you go and you take a look at the numbers [of smartphone adoption in
Africa]… the upward trend — obviously it’s still a very small penetration –
but that upward trend is there really strongly. If you look at the total
bandwidth into Nigeria, for example, it’s skyrocketing.
“Things that are very hard for us to all imagine are going to happen much
faster than we realise,” he added. “People are going to be coming online
for the first time. There’s this vibrant community of young app developers
growing in Kenya and Nigeria.
“It’s mind-boggling to think what the possibilities are — and I’m super
excited about it.”
--
Amit Kapoor
Mobile Partnerships
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi wiki,
My name is Evanson Kuria,a graduate from Jomo Kenyatta University, I
am that kind of person who like sharing with others new ideas mostly
on development and inventions,I am a very social person who would
accomodate almost everyone,I like reading alot especially
inspirational scripts and documentaries,and above all I put God first
in everything.Thanks a lot.
kind regards,
Evanson.
I'm not talking about generating new articles, just updating articles who's facts will be 'changed' so to speak by the event of the elections in a timely fashion.
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 6:48 PM MSK Oliver Stegen wrote:
>Politically a good idea but please remember that wikipedia is not wikinews.
>News articles trying to keep track of the elections will in all probability
>be deleted by the administrators.
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>Best,
>
>BT
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>From: Andrew maina [mailto:kimemiaandy@yahoo.com]
>Sent: 28 November 2012 11:30
>To: The discussion list for the Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] State of the Chapter
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>Love to be there but I can't sorry.
>However, is it too early to discuss how to make sure we are ready to deal
>with the 2013 general elections on Wikipedia? There's gonna be a huge influx
>of new info (poll results, court petitions etc) that's gonna come through in
>really short notice and I'd like Wikipedia to be a good up to date place for
>folk to keep track.
>
> _____
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>From: Alex Wafula <xelawafs(a)gmail.com>
>To: The discussion list for the Wikimedia Kenya chapter.
><wikimediake(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 12:52
>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] State of the Chapter
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>Hadn't finished that.... So I think we should have 1st Dec for the meeting.
>Is everyone OK with that? Mugo, do you think you can get a space by then?
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>Alex
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>On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Alex Wafula <xelawafs(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>I've started a pad here [1] on stuff that we can do to gain some momentum
>while working together as a community. It would be great if everyone could
>chip in then we can settle on the ones we'd like to followup with.
>
>As I mentioned before, I think 1st Dec i
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>[1]. http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmke-ideas
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Guys,
I have been silent watching in hope that someone will come up and say
something about the state of the Kenyan chapter. While we decided to
disband the board, we did not agree to kill the chapter. We have a lot of
things to achieve and we need to bring back the fire that was the Kenyan
chapter.
I would like to suggest a meetup to discuss the way forward, who is with me
and what is the best day to get this up?
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David Mugo,
Adviser to Kenya's VP on Digital Media & Technology,
CEO & Board Chairman, Wikimedia Kenya
http://mugo.me
Twitter: @raidarmax
Hi all,
congrats again with the organizing of Wiki Loves Monuments in Kenya! I know
it was a big struggle to get it off the ground.
As we discussed before, I understood there are still some pages of the
monument list missing. Does anyone know where those pdf's/jpg's are?
Secondly, your local expertise would be welsome. Henkvd reported here [
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Effeietsanders#Winners_in_Kenya]
that some images have no identified monument. Could you, as a
community,
try to figure out what is displayed on the images, and whether it is
actually a recognized monument in Kenya?
Thanks!
Lodewijk
Hi all,
> my name is Elitre and I am about to write a case study about the
> participation of Africa in WLM for the
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica project.
> it would be great if Wikipedians and Wikimedians involved in WLM Kenya
> 2012 could send me ideas and thoughts about the contest Wiki Loves
> Monuments Kenya (and maybe also some background on similar events in your
> region) and the images in
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monument…,
> how it went, whether you're satisfied, excited and so on. I'd be glad to
> report your words into my article which is due for the end of this month!
> Thanks!
>
> Elitre
>