New list: "AfrophoneWikis"

[Dwayne Bailey]

Hi All,

There is a new list looking at African Wikis and I hope Wikipedia in
general.  Please feel free to join if you want to see wiki content in
local African languages growing.

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> From: Don Osborn <dzo@...>
> To: a12n-forum@...
> Subject: [A12n-forum] New list: "AfrophoneWikis" (Re: Wikimania? ...)
> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:41:52 -0400
>
> On the web content side of localization: A new list has been set up at
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afrophonewikis/  to facilitate
> communication and planning among people interested in working on and
> supporting the development of Wikipedias in African languages.
>  
> Some relevant links from Wikimania 2006:
>  
> Presentation by Dr. Martin Benjamin (coordinator of the Kamusi online
> Swahili dictionary project):
> "Huru na Bure: Swahili Collaboration and the Future of African
> Languages on the Web"
> http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:MB1 
>  
> Presentation by Kasper Souren (Wikipedian and former Geekcorps
> volunteer in Mali):
> "The Bambara Wikipedia, One Year Later"
> http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:KS2
>  
> A draft proposal for a group to encourage and support development of
> Wikipedias in African languages:
> "Facilitating African Language Wikipedias"
> http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Facilitating_African_Language_Wikipedias 
>
> Don Osborn
> Bisharat.net
> PanAfrican Localisation project
>  
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         From: Don Osborn
>         To: a12n-forum@...
>         Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:31 AM
>         Subject: [A12n-forum] Wikimania? (Re: Wikipedia in African
>         languages)
>        
>        
>         Will anyone on this list be attending the "Wikimania"
>         conference in Cambidge, Massachusetts, US on 4-6 August? It's
>         the second annual meeting on Wikipedia and related media. See
>         http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for more
>         info.
>          
>         Don Osborn
>         Bisharat.net
>         PanAfrican Localisation project
>          
>          
>                 ----- Original Message -----
>                 From: Don Osborn
>                 To: a12n-forum@... ;
>                 africanlanguages@...
>                 Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 1:24 PM
>                 Subject: [A12n-forum] Wikipedia in African languages
>                
>                
>                 Wikipedia, the multilingual online encyclopedia, has a
>                 number of African language sections that could use
>                 more contributions. A list is appended below FYI.
>                 The complete list of Wikipedia sections is at
>                 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
>                 (NB- if you want to see a page *in* a language, as
>                 opposed to *about* it in English, you will need to
>                 click on the 2 or 3 letter code in the "Wiki" column).
>                  
>                 For those not familiar with Wikipedia or the wiki
>                 concept, it is a technology that permits readers to
>                 contribute directly to the contents of the site. More
>                 info is available at
>                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
>                  
>                 . . .
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