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...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Mar 3, 2010 9:30 am
Hoi, Many people say that mobile access to the Internet is the way for the future. As actions speak louder then words, I am really happy to inform you that the...
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Casey Brown
chimneybrown
Mar 3, 2010 10:04 am
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen ... Another note: you can even adjust your wiki's settings so that all mobile users are automatically...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Mar 24, 2010 9:23 am
Hoi, After a long time of development, the software that brings much improved usability is scheduled to go live around the end of April, the beginning of May....
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greenman_ian
May 30, 2010 7:04 pm
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 ...
