Thanks for forwarding, Rupert! Good to hear the event worked well and glad to hear from Jon that we're exploring future collaboration with the Ghanaian Wikimedia community.
Chris On 4 Apr 2014 14:00, "rupert THURNER" <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fyi > ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- > Von: "Felix Nartey" <flix...@gmail.com> > Datum: 04.04.2014 14:02 > Betreff: [Wikimedia-GH] Report on "Talking Wikipedia in Ghana" > An: "Planning Wikimedia Ghana Chapter" <wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org> > > Greetings all > > Last Saturday, Enock Nyamador, Raphael Berkye, Michael Mettle, Timothy > Quarshie and I attended the Talk Wikipedia in Ghana event held by Kwaku, a > Ghanaian but UK based Wikimedian. > > The event was one that I would say, was necessary and beneficial to all > that were present. Basic thoughts about Wikipedia and how we can contribute > locally were also touched on. Our presence was immediately known because of > appearance in the T-shirts. Reverence was given to the PWMGH community. He > intermittently sought our views on questions been asked and gave us the > opportunity to pitch what the community here in Ghana does. We were also > given the platform to have A hands on edit, where we took the entire > audience through basic editing. > > Although I personally think it was successful, I generally reason that an > event like this should be directed through the local Wikimedia community. > This helps create our identity and reliefs doubts about what we do here. We > must be the noticed as the frontiers for Wikimedia; this will enable people > to learn that we are their link to Wikimedia here in Ghana and no need to > look else where. > > We were able to recruit as usual, given the opportunity to meet with the > folks at the open source community in Ghana and a few goodies grabBED for > the community's use, which means more goodies for you!! > Best > -- > > > > *Felix Nartey | DSE CAL Bank Ltd. | Co-manager GBG TEMA > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/106882654487622047846/posts> **| Wikimedian > | About me <http://about.me/felix.nartey> | +233 263 564043 > <%2B233%20263%20564043> **| **Check out!! <http://goo.gl/4oHJeQ>* > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-GH mailing list > wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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