Hoi, There was an e-mail indicating that there are scholarships available to people from Africa who have an existing relation with the Wikimedia Foundation and...
Hi Gerard, Thanks for the information nice to hear from you again it sounds interesting to know so what kind of scholarships it will be? I would like to know...
kibangula mwanakisi
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May 4, 2007 8:20 am
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Thaks to everyone who sent this to me. I just woukld like to know more about the scholaships. ... Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people....
Gerard, I found some information here: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship However, the deadline announced for those scholarships was three...
Hoi, There was a mail the other day saying that the end date was extended. It was extended for people from Africa and from the former USSR. So just apply. ...
... first bureaucrat whenever your wiki has enough native contributor. On the first steps permissions for bot and admin status would be granted ... projects,...
Hi all, It would be great to hear from Africans and non-Africans interested in African language Wikipedias who will be going to Wikimania. Might be some...
A couple of quick questions. 1) Is there a list of bureaucrats for African language editions (or presumably for the whole range of Wikipedia editions), or are...
Had the thought a while back that there ought to be (if there isn't already somewhere I didn't notice) a page on the MetaWiki site http://meta.wikimedia.org/...
Although we all are aware of the shortcomings of evaluating the quality of a Wikipedia language edition by the number of articles, it is still interesting to...
In the en & fr Wikipedias, common names for tree species redirect to the scientific names. Is this a general Wikipedia policy - hence one that we should work...
... No, there is no such policy. Each project (e.g. language edition) decides its own policies. In my opinion, articles should always be on the common name if...
... I've seen both main articles with scientific and common names, but with redirects from their counterparts. The general rule is to use what is most commonly...
Thanks Jon, Denis, Ok I looked over fr & en Wikipedias a bit and it does seem to be a mix. I think it is clear that the vast majority of people will access ...
I put a page up at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Afrophonewikis . If it is not deleted, perhaps it can be a point of connection with Meta-Wiki. Don...
Hoi, When there is no activity on a project, it is a great target for vandalism. It is for this reason that people want to take action on such projects. The ...
Hi Gerard, Thanks for the feedback. I would agree that some sort of stage between deleting an unused Wikipedia and leaving it as it is could be most...
Hi Don, if you have the possibility to attract people who write that language to the wikipedia it is a huge step forwards. I know what it means to deal with...
Hoi, When a project is taken back into the Incubator, it has as a consequence that it will be the Language committee that will decide when the project is ready...
I notice the following problems on African wikipedia: (i) Most scholars do not know of the existence of the wikipedia in their languages. I was surprised that...
Hoi, When you consider Wikipedia as a place where it is particularly scholars who are to contribute to Wikipedia, you will find that this is quite different ...
... Bonjour Oumar, Je tres suis content de recevoir votre email et encore plus de vos contributions sur le wikipedia en fulfulde. Je sais pas exactement...
It's a couple of weeks later now. And it's still no fun to check the recent changes of 3 African wikis. Well it is a little bit, since there are actual...
Hoi, When you are a bureaucrat, you can do it on a specific project. When you are a steward you can do it on ANY project. When we as a group think it would be ...
... Makes perfect sense. I'm creating http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_for_African_language_Wikipedias Please edit it some more, and please add some...
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