I would like to bring a new project to the attention of this group. It is called OLiVER and has recently joined together with WikiEducator -...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 6, 2007 4:19 am
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,...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 12, 2007 1:14 am
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...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 12, 2007 1:19 am
Thanks Ryan for this information. This is encouraging, and the extent to which materials are in diverse languages is important. Internet publishing, especially...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 12, 2007 1:29 am
This is another one that looks like it will be closed and put in the "incubator" for a year: ...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 12, 2007 5:47 am
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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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 12, 2007 2:27 pm
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...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 12, 2007 8:32 pm
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 ...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 13, 2007 1:16 pm
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...
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Don Osborn
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Nov 13, 2007 1:53 pm
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...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Nov 13, 2007 2:14 pm
... 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...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 13, 2007 2:49 pm
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...
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rasfeqade
Nov 13, 2007 4:52 pm
... Every language that has official status in any government of the world is supposed to automatically get a free wikipedia, no decision process required;...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 13, 2007 9:15 pm
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...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Nov 15, 2007 12:19 pm
... 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...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 15, 2007 1:06 pm
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 ...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 15, 2007 2:44 pm
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...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 16, 2007 7:32 pm
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, ...
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Don Osborn
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Nov 17, 2007 11:49 pm
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...
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Don Osborn
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Nov 18, 2007 12:44 am
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...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 18, 2007 1:08 am
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...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 18, 2007 8:14 pm
Hoi, Here is a video you will enjoy :) Thanks, Gerard ...
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ibouwiki
Nov 18, 2007 10:54 pm
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...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 20, 2007 8:55 pm
Bonjour Ibou, Na nga def? I think it will be for all projects - can anyone confirm? TIA. Don...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 20, 2007 9:08 pm
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...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Nov 20, 2007 9:23 pm
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...
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GerardM
meijg
Nov 20, 2007 9:51 pm
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...
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Nov 20, 2007 10:00 pm
... 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...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Dec 18, 2007 4:48 am
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...
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GerardM
meijg
Dec 19, 2007 12:47 pm
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...
