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...
Hoi, Some good news. The Lozi language has reached the hundred percent mark for the most relevant messages. It just happened. And I am happy to report it. ...
FYI, ICANN has added 2 languages to its IDN Wiki - Amharic and Hebrew. Among languages of Africa, Arabic is also included. On the topic of IDN, I note that...
Hoi, Don this is such a nice post of yours.. I have blogged<http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2008/03/supporting-relases-this-is-what-we-do.html>about it. I...
Apparently the title means "International Year of Languages" in Swahili. I got that from sw.wikipedia.org, thanks to news from Oliver Stegen. What is the...
Just an inquiry: Is it Mwaka wa Lugha wa Kimataifa or Mwaka wa Lugha ya Kimataifa? Check and confirm the Kiswahili preposition. Dr Bob Mbori Masinde Muliro...
Swahili is sometimes ambiguous when you have multiple adjectives or adjectival nouns in sequence. In this case, however, the difference in prefixes for "-a"...
The Kamusi Project (www.kamusiproject.org) is pleased to announce that we are about to begin work on PALDO: the Pan-African Living Dictionary Online. PALDO...
Thanks Gerard for the heads up. I think that the issue is really one of marketing tailored to the community. I respect the efforts made by the individual who...
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