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    Call to Africans: Take possession of Wikipedia

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    146 days ago in i-iter · No authority yet

    Call to Africans: Take possession of Wikipedia Submitted by SabineCretella on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 14:42. Add new comment

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    Moving forward

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    147 days ago in Words and what not · Authority: 11

    Some good things that have been happening lately. Aaron, the developer of Flagged revisions, or Stable Version indicated that this extension is now stable in its messaging. This has now been picked up on Betawiki where it can now be can localised again. The 179 messages of Flagged revisions adds to the load of an ever increasing number of messages that need localising. Currently there are 6511 messages up from 5744 messages a month ago, an incease of 767 messages. This shows clearly how much work goes into the MediaWiki development and the Betawiki localisation. We are grateful for all the good work and to maintain the momentum, we have to continue to reach out to more people to help us to make their language a MediaWiki success too. Particularly for the African languages we wish to do well. At the last two Wikimanias Jimmy and Anthere talked about this. There have been workshops, there are special mailing lists and if we can do more to make Africans buy into the wiki way and own their Wikipedias many will. Today I was asked to write for the Kabissa website.. Have a read, tell me what you think, tell me what more we can do for African languages.. Thanks, GerardM (ps we includes you :) )