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" kwadzo459@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 Nyamadorkwadzo459@gmail.com kwadzo459@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
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