Hi Joe, all, I wanted to briefly respond to parts of your message as promised. Sorry for the delay. Some items have been responded to already, but hopefully...
BBC is airing a programme on wednesday, September 12 at 1600GMT on African languages and wikipedia. The lady in charge told me she was going to contact some of...
It is sad to note that entries on Yoruba Wickipedia are still under 100. I think many Yoruba scholars who are interested in working on the language's...
Hello, We are working on new wiki of Somali language dedicated to Somali as an instruction medium, hence it includes basic sciences (maths and science) and ...
Ndesanjo, Martin and who ever else wrote to me to inform me about the programme, thanks all of you for giving me such a consideration. I have already...
Tengiwia monoko! Inaendaje hii habari mbona sioni swahili hapo na mimi ni mwalimu wa kiswahili huku kupitia mpango wa fulbright. niko chuo cha wisconsin...
Article counts as of today, African languages (Note: Not counting Afrikaans or Arabic) 1. Swahili - 1584 and rising fast 2. Amharic - 437 3. Wolof - 226 4....
Many thanks for these numbers, Ras. Nice as it is to brag about growing article counts, though, it would be nice if we had a way to distinguish between...
Okay how about this... Database size as of last stack dump, July 31, >25 kb (= Combined size of all articles including redirects) Only problem is, this is over...
Does anyone know how to delete an article from Afrophone Wikipedias? The English Wikipedia has a process set up that involves various templates that don't seem...
In a message dated 9/6/2006 8:15:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias ... Luganda is found at number...
... Just saw that too. It's probably just misinformation on the Wikimedia side. In fact the current is in the opposite direction in official circles--to get...
Thanks for that information, Paa Kwesi. I checked both wikipedias though: http://ak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (akan) http://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page...
Joitske, The best analogy is US-English and UK-English. On the English Wikipedia, title pages are merely redirected to one page where the spellings are ...
Thanks! By the way I announced this group on the bytes for all list here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers/message/8642 ... Wikipedia, ...
... Seems more relevant. Especially when comparing Wolof and Bambara, both of which I'm involved in. But still, the Wolof only has a bunch of shells on...
Kasper Souren
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Sep 12, 2006 5:16 am
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I guess we have to find some people who want to maintain the unmaintained Wikipedias. Even if they don't speak the language. Condition: the moment there are...
Kasper Souren
kasper.souren@...
Sep 12, 2006 5:20 am
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If it's really clear that stuff should be deleted, just put a {{delete}} template there in the meanwhile. Don't leave the vandalism on the wiki. I just removed...
Kasper Souren
kasper.souren@...
Sep 12, 2006 5:26 am
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Hi Kasper, I don't think it will be very effective to simply block vandals to the African language Wikipedias, because much of the vandalism comes from users...
Thanks Martin for setting this up. Volunteered for those languages that I'm mobilizing to get some content for. paa.kwesi ... -- www.kasahorow.com >...
[Ed. note - For those who don't read French, Simon is writing mainly about the Telecentre.org <http://www.telecentre.org> initiative and beta website, with...
Hoi, The functionality of WiktionaryZ has been improved; we now have "history"; we can see who added/changed/deleted what information. This will help in...
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