... Just came across this list after getting back into the Swahili Wikipedia. I'm one of the "missing" admins on sw. (Regrettably, I've really had to focus on...
See http://kasahorow.org/iso-639/1. For reference if anyone needs such a sub-list. ISO-639-1 are the 2-letter language codes for languages. paa.kwesi -- ...
Hi Paa Kwesi, Thank you for this information. It would also be good to reference the official page of the "Registration authority" (.RA) for this part of ...
Excellent point Don. I've updated the page with the links. This is just the older 639-1 list pruned of non-African languages. The 639-2 and 639-3 versions of...
Several of the members of this group had the opportunity to participate in the "PanAfrican Research on L10n Workshop and Localisation Blitz" in Marrakech,...
Sorry I missed your emails because my computer was not working properly for 2 months so tell me it stills possible to send what you have recuired? Kibangula. ...
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A new WikiProject has just begun on the English Wikipedia to improve English-language articles about the African continent in general. If you would like to...
My name is Matt Berg and I would like to starty by saying that I am excited to come across this group. I am currently the country director for the Geekcorps...
Hi Kibangula, Good to hear from you but sorry to hear about your computer problems. THe workshop took place a month ago and we should get a brief wrapup to the...
Hi Martin, Thanks for this info. FYI, there is also a WikiProjects Languages effort on the English-language Wikipedia, and some of the people on it are dealing...
Hi Matt and welcome. The Moulin wiki (offline Wikipedia on CD) concept is a good one. Aw ni ce! At the same time it is too bad in the case of Mali that...
I've just attended the combined ACAL 38 / ALTA 11 conference (Annual Conference of African Linguistics & African Language Teachers' Association*) and one...
... It's great to think of all the Malians who will be able to access information from Wikipedia through the Moulin project. I think we should take this...
We'd love to include African languages to moulin. And it is our intent too. Our primary focus is getting an initial version in French, English, Portugese out...
Let's push for Moulin 2.0 with several thousand articles in Bambara :) Meanwhile, I'd like to share a lesson from Tanzania, regarding Open Office. Open Office...
Martin, Excellent idea. We have actually thought about that approach. I am not sure if it would work initially in Mali (you don't find software being sold on...
Hoi, For your information, we have funding to improve the transfer from a wiki article to PDF. It will become available in MediaWiki when we are done. Thanks, ...
Hi Kasper, Thanks for your ongoing work on these. For the benefit of some of us not totally up on how bots and bureaucrats work on Wikipedia if there were a...
... I ni ce, Well, bots, or "robots" are run by people, for different purposes. They make it easier to do tedious tasks, such as making sure that all...
Hoi, A bot is a program that edits on a project. Typically they do things like "interwiki links" connecting articles on the same subject in different...
I think it's much better to postpone this. You can vote for the first bureaucrat whenever your wiki has enough native contributor. On the first steps ...
... Maybe you're right. But I want to help out on these projects. And I don't want to spend a lot of time on tedious tasks such as finding out everything about...
I am the operator of one of the offending bots on wo:, AmaraBot... (based in the Amharic Wikipedia)... Amharic wikipedia has grown to the point where we have...
Hi folks, A while back (not sure when), someone (not sure who) added a nifty on-the-fly transliteration tool to the Amharic Wikipedia. If you don't happen to...
Hi Patrick, all, I passed this question on to some colleagues offline, and one of them, Daniel Yacob, wondered about the kinds of statistical information about...
Hi Don and everyone, ... Thanks kindly for the tip and forwarding my query to your colleagues, Don, I really appreciate it. As Daniel mentioned in a previous ...
Hi, Pat and everyone, I am bureaucrat on the Amharic wikipedia. One of our sysops with some technological know-how implemented this technology back in...
... Clickable diacritics is not the easiest way. Imagine typing a text with the keyboard and having to switch to the mouse, click on a character button and...
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