The organization "Linguapax" http://www.linguapax.org is organizing a conference at the close of this Year of African Languages in Yaoundé. So far the only...
Yoruba scholars in Nigeria are being encouraged to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia and they have started doing this but then, there are some problems (i) They ...
Hoi, You ask several questions. ==Referring to another article== When you want to refer to [[another article]], you will indicate this desire by placing the...
In addition to what GerardM already said, I have posted a welcome and some introductory comments on your user talk page on the Yoruba Wikipedia. If you log in...
Lawrence, Gerard, Mark, Thanks for your work on and attention to the Yoruba Wikipedia - thanks also to others working on it as well. Three quick notes: 1) The...
Hoi, On many wikis we have a tool that will allow you to select characters from a list. You can find them for instance in any edit screen of en.wiktionary....
Wikipedia / Wikimedia have some collections of pictures, maps, illustrations, drawings, diagrams, etc., but has any thought been given to expanding this...
I suppose what is needed is a reference for these titles in both English and Yoruba that is easily locatable. Very often, one person calls it by one name in...
It is true that the tones are marked but not the dot. Well, the problem is that I type and copy most of these articles and paste them. While pasting, the dots ...
Hoi, Thanks to Don I now have a list of characters. To make sure that I can read the characters of the Yoruban language correctly, I have copied these to the...
It is not possible to get 's' dot on Yoruba Wiki. 'e' and 'o' with dot are possible. See 'E fori ji mi' on Yoruba wiki, for example. 'e' and 'o' with dot are...
I have tried to fix this by adding some precombined characters below the editing window (where you can click to insert them). For me the 's' dot displays well,...
Agreed wholeheartedly. I don't know of any projects currently doing this. SJ ... Agreed wholeheartedly. I don't know of any projects currently doing this. SJ...
Added to http://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Edittools Thanks for the note. Any future requests to add special characters may be better in place at the...
... Interactive is tricky. Hopefully Sun will fully open source Java by the end of the year; we'd then be more comfortable using it broadly within the...
Hi all, Having finally managed to subscribe to this (although the invitation was extended in August already), I better introduce myself: In Europe (mainly...
Hi Erik, This is definitely an area of interest and there are several possible angles. Of note, since you mentioned its imminence, is Sun's recent announcement...
Thanks, Don, for the welcome including a number of helpful comments. Now, I am aware of the Swahili Wikipedia's rapid growth over the last couple of months as...
Hi Oliver. Thanks for the details on the Swahili Wikipedia. We've had some comment on the list previously about article numbers and ways of categorizing those...
Hoi, For the Wikimedia Foundation there is a process for getting a language approved. WiktionaryZ is a project where we have a portal for almost all languages...
Hi Gerard, What is the first step in getting a language approved for Wikipedia? And what then is the process that follows? Two other quick notes - (1) do you...
The Meta-Wiki site (the one for coordination of Wikipedia projects) has a page with templates indicating language proficiency of contributors to Wikipedia at ...
Hoi, At http://wiktionaryz.org you will find the biggest resource of Babel templates. There is a difference of approach with the Meta templates; WiktionaryZ...
Hoi, Getting a language approved is a bit of a misnomer; you ask approval for a new project. Typically the first project to start is a Wikipedia project in the...
The language I'm talking about is indeed Rangi, ISO code lag (thanks Don for pointing that out). With regard to me personally starting a minority language...
Hi Gerard, Thanks for this info - I'll look at the WiktionaryZ templates to see what can be adapted. In any event, my impression was that WikiMedia Foundation...
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