Hello, and happy Africa day!
[ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and mediawiki-i18n ]
To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or African Keyboard.
For full details and project description see this blog post: https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-...
Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inpu...
These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages. Please contact me if you find any problems.
Thanks!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hello Amir,
Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.
Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
Regards,
Isaac
On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:20 AM Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hello, and happy Africa day!
[ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and mediawiki-i18n ]
To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or African Keyboard.
For full details and project description see this blog post:
https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-...
Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inpu...
These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages. Please contact me if you find any problems.
Thanks!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
Hello Amir,
Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.
Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
Regards,
Isaac
(Apology for mistakenly posting with the indaba email connected to my device)
On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:29 AM WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria < wikiindaba2019scholarship@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Amir,
Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.
Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
Regards,
Isaac
On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:20 AM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hello, and happy Africa day!
[ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and mediawiki-i18n ]
To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or African Keyboard.
For full details and project description see this blog post:
https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-...
Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inpu...
These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages. Please contact me if you find any problems.
Thanks!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
Hello All,
I was searching for the following prominent African YouTubers but I did not find their Wikipedia pages. There are several primary sources about them. I was wondering if anyone could create their Wikipedia pages?
Mumbi Seraki – Kenyan
Wode Maya – Ghana
Kindest regards,
Gwinyai
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 8:30 AM Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Amir,
Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.
Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
Regards,
Isaac
(Apology for mistakenly posting with the indaba email connected to my device)
On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:29 AM WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria < wikiindaba2019scholarship@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Amir,
Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.
Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
Regards,
Isaac
On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:20 AM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hello, and happy Africa day!
[ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and mediawiki-i18n ]
To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or African Keyboard.
For full details and project description see this blog post:
https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-...
Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inpu...
These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages. Please contact me if you find any problems.
Thanks!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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Thanks for the info.
I have been working on a Wikipedia article for American Descendants of Slavery. The article is slated for deletion. I just got the notification today.
I have challenged the deletion on the premise that there is a Black Lives Movement, Blue Lives Matter movement, All Lives Matter movement, Me too movement; that all have Wikipedia articles.
The ADOS movement is gaining ground and is a movement that has historical roots in America. It has attached itself as a tangible agenda in 2020 Presidential election in the USA.
So far it has been very time consuming work, but rewarding. I daily keep up with the prominent drivers of the movement by viewing their YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook videos. And by ordering books on the subject.
The #ADOS movement is a very current movement, and it has a major impact already in the 2020 Presidential election in USA. It is a movement that represents the power and influence of new media. Which cannot be ignored.
I will be adding new references to the article that should help, and some book references.
I will add the Wikipedia article to my blog, as backup. It is a very significant movement rooted in history, and the demands for reparations in America for African Americans (American Descendants of Slavery).
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 10:11 AM Gwinyai Masukume parturitions@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
I was searching for the following prominent African YouTubers but I did not find their Wikipedia pages. There are several primary sources about them. I was wondering if anyone could create their Wikipedia pages?
Mumbi Seraki – Kenyan
Wode Maya – Ghana
Kindest regards,
Gwinyai
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 8:30 AM Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Amir,
Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.
Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
Regards,
Isaac
(Apology for mistakenly posting with the indaba email connected to my device)
On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:29 AM WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria < wikiindaba2019scholarship@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Amir,
Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.
Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
Regards,
Isaac
On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:20 AM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hello, and happy Africa day!
[ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and mediawiki-i18n ]
To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or African Keyboard.
For full details and project description see this blog post:
https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-...
Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inpu...
These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages. Please contact me if you find any problems.
Thanks!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
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