I've written another update on the progress of African language Wikipedias and Wiktionaries. Mostly slow progress, but a few languages starting to move:...
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One of The Kids
rasfeqade
Jun 29, 2010 11:49 am
First the good news: Amharic wikipedia, where I've been a bureaucrat for years, has recently seen a relative explosion in activity and popularity among Amharic...
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Ras Feqade
rasfeqade
Jul 9, 2010 3:09 pm
"The Lion of Judah has prevailed Haile Selassie I, Elect of God King of Kings of Ethiopia WE IN ETHIOPIA HAVE ONE OF THE OLDEST VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE, but...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Jul 13, 2010 10:06 am
Hoi, Wikimania Gdansk has come and gone. It was awesome as ever. This time the big announcement is that as a consequence of the strategy goal to almost double...
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Casey Brown
chimneybrown
Jul 27, 2010 4:25 pm
Two new mailing lists were recently created for discussing the possibility of Wikimedia chapters[1] in Kenya[2] and South Africa[3]. If you're in Kenya or...
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Erik Moeller
xirzon
Aug 10, 2010 4:10 pm
Hello all, we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add functionality that...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Nov 4, 2010 7:26 pm
Hoi, Mifos is an initiative of the Grameen Foundation that provides a solid footing for organisations who are involved in micro financing. The aim of the...
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Tobias Eigen
tobiaseigen
Nov 4, 2010 10:20 pm
Hi Gerard, This is interesting and has great potential - thanks for sharing. I would welcome a post about this on the Kabissa ...
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greenman_ian
Feb 11, 2011 1:05 am
I've posted another update on how the African language Wikipedias are doing: http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=802 Been some good activity, and another two...
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Waldir
waldirpimenta
Feb 11, 2011 12:02 pm
Hey everyone. As you probably know already, the data submission period for Unicode's locale database (CLDR) is now open. I've been submitting data for my...
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Waldir
waldirpimenta
Feb 11, 2011 12:17 pm
Hi, Gerard, Maybe you could help on this: Some of the Mifos messages are kind of ambiguous. The talk page at...
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Siebrand Mazeland
translatewiki
Feb 11, 2011 12:21 pm
Several Mifos people hang out in IRC channel #mediawiki-i18n on Freenode. You can also reach that channel by using the translatewiki.net webchat at ...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Feb 11, 2011 12:24 pm
Hoi, Yes we have a contact with the Mifos developers, particularly "meonkeys"; can be found regularly on the #Mifos and the ...
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dzo@...
bisharat_dot...
Mar 9, 2011 10:47 pm
FYI, this initiative may be of interest as an "allied" effort. It would be of interest to share ideas on strategies and experiences. Don Sent from my Verizon...
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dzo@...
bisharat_dot...
Mar 11, 2011 11:05 pm
What you say is true. Wikipedia was conceived in terms of an encyclopedia in everyone's language. In practice however an effort to get a localized version...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Mar 27, 2011 8:56 am
Hoi, I just learned from Twitter that the South African chapter has been approved. This is quite a joyful occasion because chapters are the preferred ...
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Jon Harald Søby
jhsoby
Mar 27, 2011 2:08 pm
The Kenyan chapter is alive and very active with its Wikipedia for schools project, and in the final stages of getting approval I think, though Abbas or anyone...
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greenman_ian
May 15, 2011 2:28 am
I've posted an update on the progress of the African language Wiktionaries - http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=842 With one dubious exception, not much to...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
May 18, 2011 8:10 am
Hoi, I am happy to inform you that at translatewiki.net we now support WebFonts. What is of special interest to this list is that we now support the Ethiopic ...
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dzo@...
bisharat_dot...
Nov 10, 2011 12:20 am
FYI... ... From: Martin Benjamin To: African Languages ReplyTo: Reply to Comment Subject: [African Languages] Request from an administrator at the English... ...
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Outi
outsanderi
Feb 21, 2012 9:00 pm
SPELLCHECKERS IN 2 SENEGAMBIAN LANGUAGES DONE! In Vox Humanitatis we started to gather people in different language groups a couple of years ago. Now I am so...
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dzo@...
bisharat_dot...
Apr 28, 2012 7:42 am
Pete, Brenda, all, Don't overlook the African language editions of Wikipedia. The options are not just English on Wikipedia or English on alternative wikis....
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Apr 28, 2012 7:32 pm
Hoi, I really like this thread, so much so that I used its content in a blogpost [1]. There is much information that is encyclopaedic in farming. There is much...
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Tobias Eigen
tobiaseigen
Apr 28, 2012 8:54 pm
Thanks, Gerard! Would you be willing to crosspost this post to the Kabissa blog? Would love to share it with the grassroots organizations in the Kabissa...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Apr 29, 2012 1:10 pm
FYI: April 2012 African language Wikipedia update (on the Neverness blog) http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=953...
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Samuel Klein
sjekjr
Apr 29, 2012 4:08 pm
That's really useful! Thank you for compiling it. SJ ... -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266...
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Samuel Klein
sjekjr
Apr 29, 2012 4:13 pm
That is, thanks to Ian Gilfillan for the work and to you for passing it on ... -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 ...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Jul 9, 2012 1:50 am
The NGO Translators Without Borders (TWB) has a project to translate medical articles for various editions of Wikipedia. See the video in which TWB director...
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bisharat_dot_net
bisharat_dot...
Jul 9, 2012 3:23 am
Who from this list will be attending the Wikimania 2012 conference* in Washington this week? Any plans for folks working on African language editions of...
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Jon Harald Søby
jhsoby
Jul 9, 2012 3:34 am
I will be there, arriving tomorrow evening (local time) at 1800. Haven't heard about any specific plans about any get-togethers. I know there are three people...
