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...
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...
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...
... 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...
Kasper Souren
kasper.souren@...
Aug 10, 2006 3:58 pm
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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...
... Interesting. In December 2004 I started working on the Limburgish Wikipedia. Limburgish is a regional language spoken in Dutch and Belgian Limburg, by...
Kasper Souren
kasper.souren@...
Aug 10, 2006 7:22 pm
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
Joseph Hill
joseph.hill@...
Aug 18, 2006 10:28 am
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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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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