Thanks Mark, interesting reading, Thanks. Thanks for the explanation of the Edittools. For some of the projects we work on we're using a commercial solution...
Hello, My name is Játi and I am a student in Menntaskóli from Iceland. I am currently a Sysop on Wikibækur (is.wikibooks.org) and trying to become a SysOp...
See http://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006 2006ý; 20:04 . . 81.34.184.82 (Talk | block) (an easy way of increasing the number of articles and aim the people to...
Kasper Souren
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Oct 9, 2006 10:20 pm
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Just a very short note: these pages for the calendar can be uploaded with the bot. On the nap.wikipedia I am now organising the Events Births and Deaths in...
Hello, Balâo! How do I do this? Become and take intitive on the Luganda and Sango wikipedias? I have a lot of translations to do for the interfaces, and I...
... But for a Wikipedia that has around a hundred articles I don't think it'd be good to add 100 (or 2000...) more without any real text. It'd be good once...
Hoi, Sabine has used OmegaT to good effect to translate history pages into particularly Neapolitan. OmegaT is a GPL translation tool that learns from the...
Somehow the logo and some other important graphics of the Fulfulde and the Wolof Wikipedia has been changed. I guess this happened on other Wikipedias as well....
Kasper Souren
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Oct 16, 2006 6:10 am
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Hi Andrew - I'll try to catch up with some old correspondence here. Hopefully you're right on the relative (or increasing ease) of dealing with various...
Hi Játi, Welcome to the group (belatedly). Have you had any feedback on this? You've probably noted the previous discussion on this topic. If you (or anyone)...
Hi Simon. Welcom (belatedly) to the group. I think it would be interesting to have some collaboration between Wikipedians and telecenter projects in Africa...
Here's a very belated reply to this item forwarded by Gerard almost 2 months ago. Since the discussions on Foundation-L have moved on, I will post this here...
Recently I've been working on the PanAfrican L10n wiki for localization in African languages at http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/ . At...
... We could allow French on this list to start with. I think many on this list are capable of understanding French. On pourra permettre français sur ce...
Kasper Souren
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Oct 20, 2006 6:24 pm
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Hi Don, my understanding is that Wikipedia normalizes input. So what character sequences a Unicode Yoruba keyboard actually produces is irrelevant (in the ...
The organization "Linguapax" http://www.linguapax.org is organizing a conference at the close of this Year of African Languages in Yaoundé. So far the only...
Yoruba scholars in Nigeria are being encouraged to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia and they have started doing this but then, there are some problems (i) They ...
Hoi, You ask several questions. ==Referring to another article== When you want to refer to [[another article]], you will indicate this desire by placing the...
In addition to what GerardM already said, I have posted a welcome and some introductory comments on your user talk page on the Yoruba Wikipedia. If you log in...
Lawrence, Gerard, Mark, Thanks for your work on and attention to the Yoruba Wikipedia - thanks also to others working on it as well. Three quick notes: 1) The...
Hoi, On many wikis we have a tool that will allow you to select characters from a list. You can find them for instance in any edit screen of en.wiktionary....
Wikipedia / Wikimedia have some collections of pictures, maps, illustrations, drawings, diagrams, etc., but has any thought been given to expanding this...
I suppose what is needed is a reference for these titles in both English and Yoruba that is easily locatable. Very often, one person calls it by one name in...
It is true that the tones are marked but not the dot. Well, the problem is that I type and copy most of these articles and paste them. While pasting, the dots ...
Hoi, Thanks to Don I now have a list of characters. To make sure that I can read the characters of the Yoruban language correctly, I have copied these to the...
It is not possible to get 's' dot on Yoruba Wiki. 'e' and 'o' with dot are possible. See 'E fori ji mi' on Yoruba wiki, for example. 'e' and 'o' with dot are...
I have tried to fix this by adding some precombined characters below the editing window (where you can click to insert them). For me the 's' dot displays well,...