Thanks for letting us know, Don. I hope this issue comes to Jimmy's attention, now that he's a member of this group. -Pat fileslip.net...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Jan 30, 2010 8:06 pm
A comment on the meta.wikimedia.org site which I believe comes from Dr. Marcel Diki-Kidiri, a linguist expert on Sango: "Sängö is now developping a large...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Jan 30, 2010 8:23 pm
Followed a link on WP to http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Recommendations/Local_Language and found this: "The local language task force is of the...
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Samuel Klein
sjekjr
Jan 31, 2010 4:12 am
Hello Don and all, I would contact an organizer for each effort to develop Sango terminology and schooling, to encourage them to develop articles about their...
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Samuel Klein
sjekjr
Jan 31, 2010 4:16 am
If you want to help improve that recommendation, please take a look at African-language wikis in languages you work with yourself, find the admins and active...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Jan 31, 2010 3:19 pm
Hoi, Let us be clear about this. The Sango wikipedia was not incubated. The best possible action for any of the closed wikipedias is that they are moved to ...
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Patrick Hall
edsapir
Jan 31, 2010 5:08 pm
Hi Gerard, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Gerard Meijssen ... Sorry? That's your opinion, could you be a bit more clear about exactly why that is the case? ...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Jan 31, 2010 5:16 pm
Hoi, Currently a new Wikipedia is started when the most used messages have been localised and, when there are something like 300 articles in the language ...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Feb 6, 2010 10:45 am
Hoi, I am really happy to inform you that the cup is filling.. For several African languages like Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and Swahili we have had contributions at...
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Tobias Eigen
tobiaseigen
Feb 6, 2010 11:46 am
This is terrific news, Gerard - congratulations! Please help spread the word of your efforts in the Kabissa network - you may find support there from people...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Feb 12, 2010 8:23 pm
Hi Gerard, Patrick, SJ, It's clear that things are not going well for a lot of Wikipedias, notably for a number in African languages. It also seems clear that...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Feb 12, 2010 8:31 pm
Thanks Gerard for the good news and Tobias for the suggestion. It is significant that speakers of some of Africa's major languages have been contributing. This...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Feb 12, 2010 8:48 pm
Here's the latest. Although there is support for keeping the Sango edition of Wikipedia open, and some more activity on it, three other closure proposals were...
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Samuel Klein
sjekjr
Feb 12, 2010 9:05 pm
Hello Don, Thanks as always for your great ideas. I agree that moving forward with smaller languages requires stronger partnerships and more ambitious goals ...
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Samuel Klein
sjekjr
Feb 12, 2010 9:32 pm
I have a few other things on my plate, but now that we're done with the swahili editing challenge, I intend to get around to updating policy about how to...
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Ras Feqade
rasfeqade
Feb 13, 2010 2:17 am
... It seems that Wikimedia began with noble intent - the vision of Wikipedia in every language and the proactive creation of projects in many of those - but...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Feb 14, 2010 6:18 pm
Perhaps I should have chosen a different way to say it. What I mean is that "build it and they will come" doesn't seem to work for many languages and their...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Feb 14, 2010 6:58 pm
At http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_for_a_moratorium_on_closing_African_language_projects Comments welcome there and/or here. After running through the...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Feb 14, 2010 7:09 pm
Thanks SJ. I think there are a number of ideas out there to work with, and no doubt you and others could come up with more. I've suggested a moratorium on...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Feb 14, 2010 7:46 pm
Hoi, In practice when there is ANY movement to a project it will not be closed. When there is a significant localisation or when there are over 100 articles, a...
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Ras Feqade
rasfeqade
Feb 14, 2010 8:31 pm
I think it depends on the language once again... For instance take Afar - the lifestyle of its speakers simply does not include personal computers, as I'm sure...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Feb 14, 2010 8:48 pm
Hoi, The existing language policy came into being because the opposition to new languages became such that there was a real risk that no new Wikipedias would...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Feb 14, 2010 9:24 pm
Hoi, For your information, the number of articles for Sango grew in the last two months from 20 to 72. Given this growth and in the expectation that the ...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Feb 15, 2010 4:57 am
Thanks Ras, Gerard, for the feedback. Afar is unusual in that it was one of the first African languages to have a locale. Don't know who put it together, but...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Feb 18, 2010 1:42 pm
Hoi, The Urdu Wikipedia finished the "Wikimedia Mobile Interface" 24 messages. They did this before finishing the "most used" messages 469 messages. Their ...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Feb 21, 2010 2:14 pm
Hoi, I have been interested in mobile mediawiki less then a week and I am thankful to the Urdu localisers for pointing me in this direction.. - 13 more...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Feb 22, 2010 5:22 am
Is there any data on which languages will display correctly on which mobile devices? ... -- Andrew Cunningham Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator State...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Mar 1, 2010 7:44 pm
Hoi, For your information the localisation of three African languages was complete for the mobile Wikipedia.. Afrikaans, Swahili and Hausa ... This is good...
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Samuel Klein
sjekjr
Mar 1, 2010 11:12 pm
This is more than good news... it is awesome. Thank you for the update Gerard, and for helping make it happen. SJ, wondering where Yoruba is! On Mon, Mar 1,...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Mar 1, 2010 11:28 pm
Hoi, For Yoruba all 25 messages need to be localised. http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=out-wikimediamobile&language=yo I was so...
