I've contributed to Akan Wikipedia before. The challenge I faced was the fact that, contributors to the language were just a couple, plus people don't read it that much so spending time writing wouldn't get that patronage of reading except for the fact that its a way to document our Akan language. On Nov 30, 2014 3:36 PM, "Enock Seth Nyamador" <kwadzo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2014 12:40 PM, Kasper Souren wrote: > > I'm curious about (creating) connections between Francophone and > Anglophone contributors. It seems WikiAfrica has mainly been about the > English Wikipedia and Afripédia is almost only about the French Wikipedia. > How many people on this list speak French? How many have contributed to > French language projects? > > Interesting! I can speak and write little French, but haven't contributed > to any French language projects. > > And then there is the question of African languages. Personally I think > this is where Africa can gain most. How many of you have contributed in > African languages? Which languages Any obstacles? > > I've contributed to in Ewe <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewe_language> > and still do sometimes. > > On 11/30/2014 12:40 PM, Kasper Souren wrote: > > My email was sent too quickly. There are few more things I wanted to bring up: > > I'm curious about (creating) connections between Francophone and > Anglophone contributors. It seems WikiAfrica has mainly been about the > English Wikipedia and Afripédia is almost only about the French > Wikipedia. How many people on this list speak French? How many have > contributed to French language projects? > > And then there is the question of African languages. Personally I > think this is where Africa can gain most. How many of you have > contributed in African languages? Which languages Any obstacles? > > There is a mailinglist list about Wikipedia in African languages which > has been active since 2006:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Afrophonewikis > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador<kwadzo...@gmail.com> > <kwadzo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I believe some Wikimedians in Cameroon also on this list have already > connedcted with you. > > > Yeah I have exchanged a few emails, it's a bit hard to keep up with > everyone and I also have to adapt to the heat :) > > It would be great if we can have dinner together, we can try to gather > all the participants and other Wikimedians who are present in Douala > who are interested. I can post here and on https://twitter.com/guaka > when I know more about a possible location for this. > > a k'an be, > Kasper > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing > listAfrican-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > > > -- > - Enock > > Sent via Mozilla Thunderbird > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >
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