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...
Sorry for the slow reply on this. I believe that OLPC is still working on its keyboard for Ethiopic/Ge'ez, but do not know offhand what the latest is...
Hoi, The reality of things are that the Wikimedia Foundation does not actively support any language. The WMF is an organisation that functions like a service...
Hi Gerard, Thanks for the feedback. I guess I see several things differently: 1. Wikipedia is a service, as you mention. Yet it was also founded with this...
Hi Gerard, and Happy Birthday! Thanks, Don, for your well-stated contribution. A quick thought to add. A recent day working in the office of an IT firm in...
Hoi, There are camels and dromedaries one has one hump the other two. The two humped one represent several of the small projects; it is people from two camel...
Hoi, Today I learned that the Chamorro Wikipedia was given the "keep" status after going through a process of closure. This language spoken by less then ...
Hi Gerard, I'm a lurker on this list and have been following this discussion.. very interesting and meaningful. Would you (or someone else in this discussion) ...
Hoi Tobias, I have written this for you: *************************** Wikipedia <http://wikipedia.org>is a community owned project. With over 700 projects in...
Hoi, The "Not the Wikipedia weekly" is a series of conversations on skype that are recorded and present all kinds of issues that are of relevance to Wikipedia....
Hi Gerard, This sounds exciting and thanks for your efforts to support African languages in Wikimedia Foundation projects. I think you hit the issue on the...
Hi Kasper, Aw ni ce! I wish that some of the WMF people other than Gerard would listen to this kind of story. Give minority languages and less resourced ...
This item came 2 weeks ago to an address that I have trouble monitoring due to spam. Although deadlines for submissions have passed, the planned date for the...
This webpage seems to have more info than the one indicated: http://wiki-translation.com/tiki-index.php?page=Collaborative+Translation+Workshop+at+WikiSym+2008...
Hi my english isn't good anyway i try to write something I think that it's the moment to creat branch of mediawiki in the african countries which languages...
... Hey Ibou ! You are talking about Wikimedia and not MediaWiki right ? I mean, create a local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. I think if this has to be...
Just to note that wikipedia/media reasons out on language (and at most national) level instead of regional or continental one (geographical area). So, if any,...
