Today I found out about WikiAfrica.it, an interesting Italian project. There is a workshop in Mantova this weekend. I won't be able to go there myself, but...
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Jama Jama Musse
jmgurey
Sep 4, 2007 1:57 pm
Hi Kasper, I am not member of the group who launched the idea and this project, but I am willing to go there and participate as an observer (and perhaps ...
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ndesanjo macha
ughaibuni
Sep 4, 2007 2:20 pm
Kasper, I am leaving New York September 7th. Maybe we can meet up on the 6th? Jama Jama Musse <jmgurey@...> wrote: Hi Kasper, I am not member of the...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Sep 29, 2007 9:10 pm
I just found that the Kanuri Wikipedia http://kr.wikipedia.org/ has been closed. I admit not having followed this issue (actually I hadn't seen that there was...
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Patrick Hall
edsapir
Sep 29, 2007 10:52 pm
... Are these decisions ultimately made by the language committee? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_subcommittees/Languages ... Perhaps there is...
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Jon Harald Søby
jhsoby
Sep 29, 2007 11:00 pm
Hi, Don. The decisions to close projects are made collectively by the community on Meta-Wiki. The only thing that could have saved the Kanuri Wikipedia from...
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Jon Harald Søby
jhsoby
Sep 29, 2007 11:01 pm
Oh, please note that the language committee is not involved with the closure of projects, only in the creation of new ones. ... -- Jon Harald Søby ...
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Patrick Hall
edsapir
Sep 29, 2007 11:52 pm
... Hi Jon, Thanks for explaining; after I sent that mail, I took a closer look at the Langcom page and it's clearly explained there that the Langcom only...
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Sabine Cretella
sabine_cretella
Sep 30, 2007 7:36 am
... No the language committe does not deal with the closure of wikipedias - we only were asked once, in the case of Belarussian, for an opinion, but we do not...
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Sabine Cretella
sabine_cretella
Sep 30, 2007 7:37 am
whoops ... reading only now this one ... sorry .... ... .......
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Sep 30, 2007 8:25 pm
Hi Jon, and thanks for the reply and clarification. Comments below. ... Maybe it's just me (I probably should have been checking) but it seems like the...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Sep 30, 2007 8:59 pm
FYI, I posted on the discussion page concerning deletions of Wikipedia editions: ...
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Jon Harald Søby
jhsoby
Sep 30, 2007 9:44 pm
The thing about closing projects is not that we close them forever or delete the content. We just lock the wikis so that they cannot be edited. People who want...
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Johannes Rohr
johrohr
Oct 1, 2007 8:52 am
... The closure had been proposed in Sept 2007 and discussed for about half a year. ... I recall that I did write a mail to foundation-l, however, I cannot ...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Oct 3, 2007 2:08 pm
Thanks Johannes, and welcome to the group. Several quick thoughts (hastily written): 1) It would be great to have more communication re the status of ...
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Johannes Rohr
johrohr
Oct 3, 2007 2:39 pm
[...] ... I understand that http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LPP should contain some explanations on that. Currently, the proposal by GerardM, ...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Oct 6, 2007 11:01 am
I am trying to move the Fulfulde Wikipedia forward, by giving admin permissions to Amkoullel [0]. Unfortunately the Meta Wikipedia Bureaucracy has been holding...
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Johannes Rohr
johrohr
Oct 6, 2007 1:05 pm
The best thing you can do is to do as suggested by Kylu: Request temp admin access and meanwhile have a "vote" at ff.wiki. If two registered users vote for...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Oct 6, 2007 2:12 pm
... Hmm, ok, we did that more than 3 weeks ago, see http://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrateurs I removed the whole discussion and started from...
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GerardM
meijg
Oct 20, 2007 4:08 pm
Hoi, For your information a guy who speaks some Wolof has started to work on the wo.wikipedia.org... He does not want to see this project closed. He is also ...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Oct 22, 2007 11:29 am
... I'm a bit confused. Do you mean SF-Language, and Wikiquote as the project that is threatened to be closed? Where are the votes? wo.wq should be kept open...
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GerardM
meijg
Oct 22, 2007 11:45 am
Hoi, With few people working on a project, a project is not "safe". We have seen in the past that people worked silently on a project only to find that the ...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Oct 22, 2007 2:37 pm
Thanks for bringing this up, Gerard. I've been meaning to come back to this topic, so now's the time. You write: With few people working on a project, a...
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GerardM
meijg
Oct 22, 2007 3:25 pm
Hoi, I do observe several wikipedias and for me "safe" is when there is a community with at least a few regular contributors who have been working at it for at...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Oct 22, 2007 3:37 pm
... It's important not to both break the egg and kill the chicken. Only allowing Wikipedias to start when the interface is already localized could be an...
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GerardM
meijg
Oct 22, 2007 4:16 pm
Hoi, There are genuine advantages for being part of the incubator. There is no need to have a vibrant community yet. There are people from other languages that...
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Martin Benjamin
piperzen
Oct 22, 2007 4:50 pm
Google has a very simple model for localizing their interface into any language: they make their interface strings available, and anyone can edit them one at a...
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GerardM
meijg
Oct 22, 2007 5:11 pm
Hoi, The language support of Google that I am interested in is in the support provided in the search engine. For languages that are supported content will be...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Oct 23, 2007 7:24 pm
Looking over this topic quickly again (in light of the recent exchanges on Wolof), I would like to say that there are several reasons that it would be helpful...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Oct 24, 2007 1:18 pm
... Deletion after just one year doesn't seem appropriate to me. I think it would be better if we had our own incubator, reserved for African languages, with...
