Hi everybody, at
Swahili Wikipedia we have an unusual project; the University of
Dar es Salaam asked for a manuscript for a Swahili Lexicon of
Astronomy. This will be the text of all related articles on our
wikipedia. (The proposal gives some background about this
request).
In September we would like to have a workshop that brings together
Wikipedians from Dar es Salaam with members of the "Astronomy and
Space Science Association of Tanzania" to revise the existing
articles, prepare the manuscript for the university and enter the
revisions into the online articles.
I posted a Rapid Grant Proposal to have WMF fund the workshop.
This project shows the opportunities for our African Language
Wikipedias which often will be the only existing encyclopedias in
these languages.
I am happy if members can support the proposal by endorsing
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Swwiki_workshop_astronomia#Project_Goal.
(By PC press the "Endorse" button in the box on
the right and fill in the popup-box; by phone this does not
work, you have to scroll down to the end until you see
"Endorsements", press the stylus-edit-symbol and add your
comment under the last line)
Cheers!
Ingo - Kipala