Hi Swahili Wikipedians, I wanted to update you on the status of the Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge( http://www.google.com/events/kiswahili-wiki/). This past...
Hello Wikipedians, I happy to update you on the progress of the Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge. We have 7 universities from Kenya and Tanzania participating....
Hi All, I wanted to update you guys on my recent planning trip to Kenya & Tanzania. I've met with faculty members and students at the top universities in Kenya...
Hoi, As Google is interested in growing the Swahili Wikipedia as a first African language and possibly other languages later, it will help the process when it...
Hi all, Thank you to those who've provided comments and opinions. I've shared your comments with the Wikimedia Foundation in SF as well so they know how the ...
FYI - note that feedback is requested (and is welcome here also)... ... Hi, I've been contacted by Christine Moon who is working for Google. They've come up...
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...
The African Network for Localization (ANLoc) is seeking immediate help to create Locales for 100 African languages. You can view a description of the project...
FYI from the Hausa Online blog at http://hausaonline.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/hausa-wikipedia-is-growing/ : Hausa Wikipedia is growing Posted by hausaonline...
Hoi, When it comes to special interests, there are two existing groups you can add to the list.. There is a group who wants to enable MediaWiki for African ...
The wikipedia project for English, being by far the largest, at present includes articles dedicated to significant wikipedias in other languages. This serves...
Swahili Wikipedia now has 11,167 articles - http://sw.wikipedia.org . More stats: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaSW.htm (seen on Twitter - thx to...
Just heard about the "Africa Gathering" in the London, UK tomorrow, 4/25. It is described as "a day for thinkers, supporters, sponsors, doers, geeks, dreamers...
Hoi, I have written about supporting Lingala in MediaWiki on my blog. The ɔ́ character showed properly while I was editing it and did not once I published my...
FYI, from http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation : Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe...
Hoi. On the English Wikipedia there was no article of the Thika river. The Thika river is quite important as it is associated with a dam, a waterfall and it ...
We're 2 weeks until the formal end of the International Year of Languages. There are articles on the Year in 14 editions of Wikipedia, including one African...
Hi all, Just wanted to share this with you : Today, I saw on a Cameroonian TV channel, Cheick Modibo Diarra, head of Microsoft Africa, saying that they are...
Hoi, Siebrand did send this e-mail today. We REALLY want to see African languages do better and maybe this is an incentive to help us see 2008 go out with a ...
Hoi, I blogged about the Luganda main page.. What do you think of it ? http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2008/12/wikipedia-main-page-with-twist.html Thanks, ...
Hoi, Every month I post a message on the Wikipedias informing them on the status of their localisation. This time I have added a sentence if the localisation ...
Hoi, On the Foundation list I have started a thread about usability of the MediaWiki software. Central in this are extensions created by UNICEF. These ...
Hoi, It is pretty quiet on foundation-l, it is pretty quiet on Meta as far as African languages are concerned. Obviously there are also the blogs. Pretty quiet...
FYI. The WikiAfrica project, which was mentioned on this list last year (message #291) is still ongoing. The below announcement concerns its activities at the...
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