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...
Hi Gerard, This is good news, thanks for sharing it. Will it be at kri.wikipedia.org (Krio only having an ISO 639-3 code, the only relevant ISO 639-2 code cpe...
Hi Gerard, I looked at the list at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation_statistics and did not see some African languages there. Is the way to get a...
Hoi, Before the Krio wikipedia will become availableat kri.wikipedia,org, the route of the Incubator will have to be walked. It means that at least the 500...
Hoi, The language in this list are the ones that have some localisation for MediaWiki. When a project for a language exists, and when never a central message...
Hoi, I had a word with "spectie" on IRC about the use of Apertium. In order to get it to work for African languages that uses initial inflection it will need...
Hoi, We have been given a nice Christmass gift; the people of BetaWiki have given us the export of the MediaWiki system messages into .po files. There are two...
Hoi, .po files hold translations used with the GNU (GNU General Public License) gettext toolset. It is considered a standard :) particularly in the Open Source...
With .po files it is possible to use a variety of free translation software to aid in the rapid translation of localization files. This software includes...
... Poedit, Pootle (and Kbabel) are basically text editors specialized in PO handling. Kbabel offers some advanded functions to re-use previously translated...
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Greetings and Happy New Year 2008 to all! This year has been declared by the UN as "International Year of Languages."* What exactly that will mean depends in...
From 2002-2006, Yoruba was having about 56 articles in its wikipedia because people were not aware of it. Today, it is having over 5,000 articles. My...
Hoi, Absolutely. However it is Yoruba people that make the difference. This is not something that can be enforced with a policy. What can be done is *ask...
Dear all, Best wishes for 2008. The role of UNESCO in the matter of linguistic and cultural diversity belongs entirely to its mission statement. Wikipedia...
Hoi, A request has been made for a Krio Wikipedia. It has been conditionally approved. With a basic localization and a good start in the Incubator we hope that...
Hoi, A guy is spending quite a lot of time to localise MediaWiki for Lozi. I know this person to be Dutch and I wonder if the Lozi is any good. It would help ...
Hoi, In advance to a more general announcement, I am going to announce a new project aimed to improve the localisation of MediaWiki. The details of this ...
... Maybe we can also find ways to incite people to create important pages like the Main Page and 20 articles or so for a bounty. Of course I find this project...
Hoi, For a bounty system to work you have to have money .. By promoting the localisation of MediaWiki we make MediaWiki usable not only in the single projects...
Hoi, I had a look (again) at the list of languages. Many big African languages are currently not on the list that are applicable for a bounty. The best way to...
Hoi, Some good news, the first two languages have started their effort to get the BetaWiki bounties. They are Amharic and Northern Sotho. I do want to point...
Hoi, At BetaWiki we are celebrating the first two African languages that have achieved the first localisation milestone. Both Swahili and Sesotho sa Leboa have...
Thanks for the news and good work! I'll pass the word on about BetaWiki localization efforts on the PAL (PanAfrican Localisation) lists. Don ... that have ... ...
In the interests of finding ways to enhance content development on African language editions of Wikipedia, I'm talking with a friend and former colleague about...
Hi Don, ... Not sure that this option will meet your needs, but I thought I'd throw it out there. There is a nifty tool for importing photos from Flickr into...
Hoi, I have asked Brianna to comment, Brianna is one of the best spokespersons for Commons, and one of the more effective admins of Commons (I am one as well...
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