Hi all, Just wanted to share this with you : Today, I saw on a Cameroonian TV channel, Cheick Modibo Diarra, head of Microsoft Africa, saying that they are...
take this with a grain of salt. what he will mean is that LIPs will be developed for these languages (Microsoft indicates, if i understand correctly, that...
About African languages to Vista & Office: This news came 3rd July 2008 (In French) http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/200807030592.html Hopefully it will help...
Hi Gerard, We are remiss in not responding to this very positive initiative (and I apologize for not replying before now - hope that 2009 is off to a great...
Hoi, The uptake on the Betawiki end of your bounty overwhelmed us. We had 35 people taking their cut out of the bounty. Given that we had HOPED for 20, you can...
Hoi, It is either half an egg or an empty shell. Just be happy for all the progress.. Yes, it could be more.. and if this is all there is, you can still...
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Gerard Meijssen ... Actually, my only hope regarding this information is Microsoft including African character and input...
Hello everybody! I have been checking this conversation about if these words of translating a wellworking software is a daydream or the reality. I think we...
We're 2 weeks until the formal end of the International Year of Languages. There are articles on the Year in 14 editions of Wikipedia, including one African...
Hoi. On the English Wikipedia there was no article of the Thika river. The Thika river is quite important as it is associated with a dam, a waterfall and it ...
Hi Gerard, I just typed Thika river into my google bar, then clicked 'Images", and found more pics of it than you could shake a stick at. Took me about 4...
Hoi, We shook our stick believe you me, but now try to find pictures that are both good quality and are freely licensed. Given that this list is about ...
Okay, I searched on flickr and found this picture of the falls http://flickr.com/photos/meaduva/1980375995/ The licensing allows you to use it as is, with...
Hoi, Sadly no. We allow for GFDL, CC-by CC-by-sa. No derivatives and not commercial are not accepted.. It is a nice picture though. Thanks, GerardM 2009/2/21...
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Gerard Meijssen ... However, someone can still e-mail the creator of the picture and ask them if they'd make the picture "more...
... Could we just add some stuff to MediaWiki:Monobook.css? Even though I haven't been very active on bm.wp recently I have sysop rights on the Bambara...
Hoi, The problem with local changes to the MediaWiki Mononbook.css is that these changes are only locally available. What you really want is for a change where...
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gerard Meijssen ... Well, fundamental solutions take months regarding those kind of issues. I'm convinced that doing this on...
FYI, from http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation : Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects around the globe...
There has been a discussion on similar issues on Unicode-Afrique (en français). I have intended to link the two discussions but if anyone else who has both...
Just heard about the "Africa Gathering" in the London, UK tomorrow, 4/25. It is described as "a day for thinkers, supporters, sponsors, doers, geeks, dreamers...
Swahili Wikipedia now has 11,167 articles - http://sw.wikipedia.org . More stats: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaSW.htm (seen on Twitter - thx to...
The wikipedia project for English, being by far the largest, at present includes articles dedicated to significant wikipedias in other languages. This serves...
Dear Ras Feqade, While I share your sentiments and disappointment, I'd recommend, rather than complaining on the relevant pages, simply to find some proof of...
Dear Oliver, Thank you very much for finding those references, that is exactly what I hoped someone would come up with. I also know there are several more...
I've added a few comments in support of the article to the discussion as well. Thanks for pointing it out Ras! Actually, it got me thinking: what if there were...
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