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...
Hi Gerard, Thanks for the feedback. I think we all agree with the vision of Wikipedia articulated by Jimmy Wales as "an effort to create and distribute a free...
Hoi, When a project is moved to the incubator, it is effectively not deleted. The thing is not that we do not want a project in Afar or similar languages, we ...
Thanks Gerard, I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. A few quick thoughts: * When you write that "There is a strong group within the WMF that is quite...
FYI, from Tectonic (seen via a Google alert)... Zulu Wikipedia passes 100 article mark http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1878 By James Archibald 12...
... From the comments on the article: "We have to be a little more honest about the statistics, though. Several Wikipedias in African languages that I checked...
Hoi, There are several groups involved. One is of the opinion that a non-functional project should end. I can sympathise with this pov. There are others that...
... Every language that has official status in any government of the world is supposed to automatically get a free wikipedia, no decision process required;...
Hoi, A language that is recognised as such, a language that has an ISO-639-3 code, can in principle get itself the opportunity to start building a project in...
... In some cases it has actually worked. The Wolof Wikipedia would not contain 500 articles if it hadn't been started in the beginning of 2005 and left to...
Hoi, The localisation of Wolof in MediaWiki is not good at all. What is needed is to have the Wolof messages available to all projects. With 500 articles, it ...
Hi Martin, Gerard, and all. I'll copy this over to the AfrophoneWikis list as I think this is important info for other African language Wikipedia editions as...
Hoi, Change the language in your user preferences in Wolof in any of the WMF projecs, you will find that it now works for you :) Thank you Siebrand Thanks, ...
Hi Feqade, Gerard, all, With regard to Afar and how it was started etc. My impression was that Wikipedia started editions for many or all languages with ISO...
Hi Gerard, We've had some discussion before about ISO 639 on another list (I think it was ietf-languages). For others not familiar with this, it is a set of...
Hoi, The ISO 639 is very much a work in progress. There are still developments happening in the ISO-639-2 even though the ISO-639-3 is ratified, at the same...
Hi, the translation work that i am doing in betawiki will be for all wikimedia's projects (wikipedia,wiktionary,...) or only for mediawiki? the messages in...
Hoi, The messages that are currently localised will go to all Wikimedia Foundation projects within the week. It will become available in the next distribution...
Hi Gerard, I think we are in agreement re language definitions outside ISO 639. My interest is not so much new codes (though there are probably a few that...
Hoi, When you consider wikipedias in languages that are truly closely related like the Fulfide/Pulaar language, then one of the things you do want to do is to...
... There is no official spelling or vocabulary for Limburgish, so it was decided to leave every contributor free to use their own dialect. We did choose to...
Hi Gerard, Coming back to this topic belatedly. Here are a few replies: 1) Re tagging articles with the variety of Fula (Fulah as it is listed ISO 639-1&2) in...
Hoi, For your information for Krio, the Senegalese language, a Wikipedia has been requested. It will be conditionally approved in a weeks time and I have asked...
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