Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Nkansah Rexford
In the case of the Akan language, there're many speakers. And many schools teach the language, how to write and speak from primary schools to even sometimes senior high school. I, myself, can go back to writing articles onto the Akan Wikipedia. What I ask myself sometimes is that, "Will I have to

Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On 30.11.2014 20:06, Kasper Souren wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Nkansah Rexford wrote: 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

Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Kasper Souren
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Nkansah Rexford wrote: > 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 > docume

Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Nkansah Rexford
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.

Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
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 Fren

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2014-11-30 Thread kayode yussuf
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Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Kasper Souren
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 man

Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Nkansah Rexford
Great work done. Keep on the awesome work. On Nov 30, 2014 11:59 AM, "Enock Seth Nyamador" wrote: > Great Kasper! Will follow along. > > I believe some Wikimedians in Cameroon also on this list have already > connedcted with you. > > Best, > > - Enock > twitter: @Enock4seth > enockseth.blogspot.c

Re: [African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Great Kasper! Will follow along. I believe some Wikimedians in Cameroon also on this list have already connedcted with you. Best, - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.blogspot.com | [[User:Enock4seth]] On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Kasper Souren wrote: > In 2005 I did some work on Wiki

[African Wikimedians] Afripédia Douala

2014-11-30 Thread Kasper Souren
In 2005 I did some work on Wikipedia in African languages, mainly Bambara and Peul. A couple of months ago I was asked to go to Madagascar and provide training as part of the Afripedia project. Currently I'm in Douala, Cameroon for a 3 day session that will gather people from previous Afripédia s