Recently Misbaho has started adding genuine Bambara to the Bambara Wikipedia. Check http://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Misbaho and ...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Jun 13, 2008 8:10 pm
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 ...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Jun 13, 2008 8:26 pm
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...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Jun 13, 2008 8:35 pm
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...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Jun 13, 2008 9:16 pm
Seb Paquet informs me that the deadline for submissions is now June 20. ... ...
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ibouwiki
Jun 23, 2008 3:25 pm
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...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Jun 23, 2008 4:11 pm
... 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...
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Jama Musse Jama
jmgurey
Jun 23, 2008 4:40 pm
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,...
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ibouwiki
Jun 23, 2008 7:00 pm
... 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....
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Waldir Pimenta
waldirpimenta
Jun 23, 2008 7:10 pm
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...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Jun 23, 2008 7:11 pm
... 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...
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Jama Musse Jama
jmgurey
Jun 24, 2008 8:24 am
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...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Jun 24, 2008 9:28 am
... Yes, Wikimedia is organized around languages, and this is great for accessing information but it clearly shows that creating chapters around those...
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Jama Musse Jama
jmgurey
Jun 24, 2008 10:41 am
... 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...
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Oliver Stegen
babatabita
Jun 24, 2008 11:06 am
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...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Jun 24, 2008 11:22 am
... 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...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Jun 24, 2008 11:31 am
... No, but I don't think we need such a place. The action that chapter will do would be prepared over Internet and (if necessary) deployed in each...
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Waldir Pimenta
waldirpimenta
Jun 24, 2008 11:39 am
I totally agree with renaud, and I also want to say that having an Africa-wide (or WE, for instance) chapter wouldn't exclude the option from some countries to...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Jun 24, 2008 11:42 am
Hoi, We can do without this list, we can do without grand ideas when people are work ingon projects in these languages.. We need people that write ...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Jun 24, 2008 12:37 pm
... ahah :) yes we ___only___ need writers and readers. That's the point and Ibou said it clearly : there are none. While in EU or in the US you just have to...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Jun 24, 2008 1:17 pm
Hi Gerard, ... Did you really mean to say that? We have good discussion begun by a proposal brought up by a regular contributor to an African language edition...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Jun 24, 2008 1:40 pm
Hoi, The problem with chapters and other grand schemes is that they are expensive. They do not bring us necessarily any closer to what they, we aim to achieve....
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Kasper Souren
kasper.souren
Jun 24, 2008 2:09 pm
... More than 3 years after I left Mali where I have tried to stimulate people to write for Wikipedia during 4 months. For a long time there was no more...
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Martin Benjamin
piperzen
Jun 24, 2008 3:20 pm
Ibou's original question about a Wolof/ Senegal Wikimedia chapter raises some interesting possibilities. This is the page that explains what a Wikimedia...
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Jama Musse Jama
jmgurey
Jun 24, 2008 5:01 pm
I think Martin summarized well all what African languages can benefit from this thread started by Ibou (thank you). I live in Italy, and am following for the...
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ibouwiki
Jun 24, 2008 5:40 pm
Hi Martin your comment is very elequent, you understand realy what is african projects need, i believe that your idea is the only solution. they need more...
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ibouwiki
Jun 24, 2008 5:40 pm
Hi Martin your comment is very elequent, you understand realy what is african projects need, i believe that your idea is the only solution. they need more...
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Patrick Hall
edsapir
Jun 24, 2008 8:26 pm
Hello, I've been mostly lurking around here for a while, I thought I would throw in my 2 cents on this very interesting thread. Following up on the thoughts of...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Jun 25, 2008 9:56 pm
Hi Gerard, Thanks for the clarification and additional thoughts. How would Wikimedia chapters be expensive? I agree that their purpose should be clear (beyond...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Jun 25, 2008 10:18 pm
Thanks Martin, Jama, Ibou and all, Martin's summary seems like an excellent basis for discussion. A few quick questions: 1) Would such chapters be organized...
