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,...
... it's necessary to creat wikimedia fondation for every country or region which have the work to develop the language in that erea. I can give one exemple....
Hi everyone. Ibou and Renaud, I definitely agree with the idea of a shared chapter. I am from Cape Verde and I know there are very few cape verdean wikipedians...
... I disagree with that because we (west-african people) have multiple languages but we mostly share the same problems and issues. What do you recommend ? a...
Well, I should re-iterate from my first reaction to avoid further misunderstandings on this issue. I would support a kind of African Wikimedia chapter to have...
... Yes, Wikimedia is organized around languages, and this is great for accessing information but it clearly shows that creating chapters around those...
... My proposal does not reject the contribution with authentic African content in the majors, but it simply considers a different topic, which is still good...
Would it be an option to create a chapter in a central location? E.g. if a wikimedia foundation chapter was founded in Nairobi, this could be registered to...
... What I meant is that it makes it out-of-context while a WM chapter is about everything WM. Such a chapter should promote those contributions too. ... The...
