This is a quick note of introduction and welcome. This list was set up as a result of some discussions before/during/after Wikimania 2006 about how to...
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meijg
Aug 9, 2006 2:45 pm
Hoi, I am GerardM in many of the Wikimedia projects. But more importantly I am involved in http://wiktionaryz.org . WiktionaryZ is a project where we want to...
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Martin Benjamin
piperzen
Aug 9, 2006 8:11 pm
At this early stage in the formation of the AfrophoneWikis group, it is important that we build our core membership. Once we have assembled the basic network...
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Martin Benjamin
piperzen
Aug 10, 2006 3:21 pm
Ethan Zuckerman has written an interesting blogpost on multi-lingual Wikipedias, particularly regarding African languages, available here: ...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren@...
Aug 10, 2006 3:58 pm
... Thanks Martin, for pointing us to this article. Here's are my comments: Regarding your last question, in my opinion there is no doubt about it: We are...
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Sabine Cretella
sabine_cretella
Aug 10, 2006 6:07 pm
Thank you Martin for pointing us to this blog - he's a person we should work togehter with (is he a member of this group? I hope so ... otherwise we should...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren@...
Aug 10, 2006 7:22 pm
... Interesting. In December 2004 I started working on the Limburgish Wikipedia. Limburgish is a regional language spoken in Dutch and Belgian Limburg, by...
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adewole lawrence
loadewole
Aug 12, 2006 3:10 pm
I quite agree that most people in Africa spend their time on survival that a little sum of money will enable them to create time for writing content for ...
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GerardM
meijg
Aug 12, 2006 3:57 pm
Hoi, There are many ways in which you can make it atractive to help with Wiki content. One way of doing this is by subsidizing access to computers. This can be...
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Sabine Cretella
sabine_cretella
Aug 13, 2006 3:28 pm
Well I am crossposting this blog text as well as copying it to some people in blind copy since it involves various projects - as for Wikipedia: it is about...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Aug 13, 2006 3:58 pm
Gerard, Lawrence, all, Greetings and thanks for the input. Let me mention before responding quickly to this thread, that I've put up some links to Wikipedia...
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Martin Benjamin
piperzen
Aug 16, 2006 8:58 pm
Don and I have been having an off-list chat about how to alert active African language Wikipedians to the AfrophoneWikis list, since we really need to solicit...
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ndesanjo
ughaibuni
Aug 17, 2006 2:52 pm
This is a very practical strategy! Thanks. ... really ... ...
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adewole lawrence
loadewole
Aug 17, 2006 3:07 pm
I am worried that it is really not going to be easy for African languages scholars in Africa to take part in contributing to Wikipedia. This is not because...
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djmoyogo
Aug 17, 2006 3:38 pm
... AfrophoneWikis ... Hi, I quite frankly don't think machine translation will be available for African languages any time soon, at least not at a usable...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Aug 17, 2006 3:55 pm
Hi Lawrence. You raise an excellent point. We do need to keep in mind that there are a lot of novice users of Wikipedia - who may be very expert in the...
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Sabine Cretella
sabine_cretella
Aug 17, 2006 4:45 pm
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paa kwesi imbeah
imbeah
Aug 17, 2006 8:20 pm
Hey Sabine, Thanks for the links to those tools. Looks very promising for the prospect of converting a standard orthography (say of all Mande languages) into ...
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Martin Benjamin
piperzen
Aug 17, 2006 11:10 pm
I just had a conversation with Joe Hill, an anthropologist who works in Senegal, and he had a few interesting observations about issues that exist for Wolof...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Aug 17, 2006 11:58 pm
Hi all, with respect to item 3), the first step would be to develop a mapping table between the Latin and Arabic orthographies, and run some test conversions...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Aug 18, 2006 1:19 am
Hi Martin. Welcome Joe and others who have recently joined. Here are a few quick comments. I look forward to Joe's and others' feedback... ... ... [MB]> 1)...
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Joseph Hill
joseph.hill@...
Aug 18, 2006 10:28 am
Hello everyone, and thanks Martin for summarizing some of my observations. Here are a few more details in answer to questions that have been posed. Regarding...
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GerardM
meijg
Aug 18, 2006 12:24 pm
Hoi, Wikimania was a conference that I expect to be of great importance for stimulating the African interest in MediaWiki and Wikipedia content. I was excited...
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adewole lawrence
loadewole
Aug 18, 2006 3:55 pm
GeraldM, you are great. This is definitely what we want for African Languages. We need contributors from Africa and as of now, we are being marginalized. I ...
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paa kwesi imbeah
imbeah
Aug 18, 2006 4:10 pm
Hi Lawrence, Great feedback :) You'd start by registering on your language(s)'s Wikipedia (see the bottom of the league tables here...
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Raoul Weiler
weilerraoul
Aug 18, 2006 8:21 pm
Dear colleagues, We met some of you in Boston at the Wikimania. We had the occasion to discuss an idea we want to launch at the Conference on ICT in Abuja on ...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Aug 18, 2006 10:24 pm
Hoi, For your information, I have asked Erik to add the Akan, the Ewe and Hausa (Arabic script) and Hausa (Latin script) to WiktionaryZ. I also asked for some...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Aug 19, 2006 2:31 am
A lot of interesting information, activities, and ideas here - thanks to all. At some point I'm thinking that we'll want to discuss strategies for using this...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Aug 19, 2006 2:33 am
Such a filter should be relatively straight forward, dpeneding on format data is stored in and what sort of HTML its marked up with, i.e. full tag completing...
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ndesanjo
ughaibuni
Aug 19, 2006 12:22 pm
Lawrence, There are tools out there that would make it easier for people to work in a Wiki environment. Wikiwyg (http://www.wikiwyg.net/) is one of them. This...
