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ZIko is certainly involved in this process and so am I. There are many things that contribute to a working Wikipedia. I am known to favour localisation, Ziko is known for a fixed list of subjects for every Wikipedia.
With the LocalisationUpdate extension live, all localisations done at http://translatewiki.net will now usually be available within 24 hours. With a worst case of 3 days. The next thing I am favouring is statistics about articles that were looked for on a Wikipedia that were not found. When these statistics are known, editors can write what is known to be wanted.
The question asked by Sarah Sable is to get your involvement. It will not work when you are not involved. What is needed is your ideas of what will work and this can be brought into the strategy process at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Thanks,
    Gerard
2009/9/29 babatabita <oliver@...>
ÂHave you contacted Ziko van Dijk? He has researched small wikipedias in his Handbook of Multilingual Wikipedias (for Swahili and Akan, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ziko/Handbuch-Andere#Bantu-Sprachen - okay, so it seems to be available in German only) and may have some input.
--- In afrophonewikis@yahoogroups.com, "sarahsable" <sarah.sable@...> wrote:
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> Hi everyone, as you all may know Wikimedia is in the midst of its strategic planning process (see http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for more information). As part of this process, I have been developing a fact base on Sub-Saharan African languages and their Wikipedias. The purpose of this fact base is to help the Wikimedia community understand the importance of these languages as they develop strategies to expand the reach of Wikimedia worldwide as well as to discuss the specific barriers to growth of these language projects. If any of you are also editors of any of the Sub-Saharan African language Wikipedias, I would really appreciate it if you took some time to look at what I've put together and make any changes or additions that you thought were appropriate. It would be especially great if anyone had some thoughts or ideas to add to the section on barriers to growth Sub-Saharan African language Wikipedias. I want to make sure that we have the most accurate information possible to inform the strategic plan as it is developed. This is the link http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reach/Regional_Analysis/Sub-Saharan_Africa Thanks!!!!
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