... 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 ...
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 ...
I am trying to move the Fulfulde Wikipedia forward, by giving admin permissions to Amkoullel [0]. Unfortunately the Meta Wikipedia Bureaucracy has been holding...
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...
... 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...
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 ...
... 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
Hi Kasper, This sounds like an excellent idea. Could also be a big step in building the "meta community" for support of African language Wikipedias. It could...
Hoi, When you want a Wikipedia, it being a Wikimedia Foundation trademark, you cannot just suggest "let us have an Incubator for African languages. In the same...
... I'm CC'ing Renaud. I'm not sure if he's on the afrophonewikis list, but he's definitely addressing these issues, right from Bamako, and working on...
The problems that you address are all reasons why a regional African incubator is a GOOD idea. The incubator could be promoted as THE place for people to...
Thanks, Martin and Gerard for bringing this issue up. What Gerard mentions is something I'd like to know more about. It would relate to various aspects of...
Hi Gerard, Thanks for the feedback. I'll respond in the text below. ... trademark, you ... In the ... I'm not sure I see a conflict here. Of course this is the...
So, how would one properly make a proposal within the parameters already acknowledged and with the goals already brought up, for an enhanced African language...
FYI, saw this item from InformationWeek.com via a Google alert. I'm currently in the Pretoria area for the PanAfrican Localisation workshop with, among others,...
I had the chance to visit this event and it was quite interesting. There were about 20-25 people, college aged, who participated, representing a range of South...
Thanks Ryan for this information. This is encouraging, and the extent to which materials are in diverse languages is important. Internet publishing, especially...
Hoi, In the past there have been many languages that have been given permission to start for sentimental reasons. When you look at this project it says that it...
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