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1. Re: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 35
(Florence Devouard)
2. Re: Translate-a-thon of African Women Bios (Florence Devouard)
3. Looking for an Arabic/English speaker (Florence Devouard)
4. Re: Looking for an Arabic/English speaker (Ahmed Mohi El Din)
5. Re: Looking for an Arabic/English speaker (Florence Devouard)
6. Re: Give an opportunity to professors emeriti to adjust
Wikipedia for free by endorsing this proposal (abdelwaheb turki)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:34:01 +0100
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org <javascript:;>>
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9,
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Saudi Arabia is borderline... but came out when I did some
WikiData/Category search for GA Africa Women.
But the fact she is borderline is annoying. She is also fairly well
translated already.
Anna is a fairly good bio (strangely... it is still recorded as "Stub"
here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Anna_Tibaijuka)
Less translated. Interesting caracter. And undoubtely from Africa.
So yeah... ok. Let me fix that.
But Ingo, can you make sure to review the article (check languages, fix
links etc.) ?
Thanks
Flo
Le 12/02/2017 à 20:38, Ingo Koll a écrit :
Chere Florence
if it is allowed to point out that Saudi Arabia is not exactly
Africa, so what about taking Anna Tibaijuka from Tanzania in the list
instead? (so far existing in Deutsch, Français, Hrvatski, Kiswahili,
Polski, Português, 中文 - which is less than the lady from Saudi or
Yaa Asantewaa)
Cheers
Ingo
Am 12.02.2017 um 19:00 schrieb
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:49:27 +0100
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org <javascript:;>>
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Translate-a-thon of African Women
Bios
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Hi
Good idea.
Done here =
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_
articles_for_improvement/Nominations#People.2FCompanies_and_organisations.
2FProducts
Flo
Le 12/02/2017 à 14:45, Olatunde Isaac a écrit :
Hi Flo,
I completely agree with you on the need to do cleanup on the English
language
version of the articles before translation. In most cases, people
hardly check for errors before translation. You can nominate the 16
articles for improvement at
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Wikipedia:Today's_articles_for_improvement/Nominations. However,
this does not stop anyone on this list from helping with improvements as
well.
Best,
Isaac
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:24:19
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians]
Translate-a-thon of African Women Bios
I very much hope so.
But right now... what we need is to review the articles so as to avoid
keeping obvious and stupid mistakes in the biographies before
translation.
And to make sure the English versions are ok, because I suspect most
people would be more likely to translate from English rather than other
language.
Quality of articles vary A LOT. Initially, I thought we could find 16
articles about african women of good quality.
Well... no.... not so. I searched a lot. There are hardly any GA
articles about African women. Half of the current GA ones were done this
year.
So the articles are a mix of GA articles and articles of lesser quality
but interesting nevertheless. Either not translated in many languages or
most versions being stubs.
Flo
Le 12/02/2017 à 14:08, Olatunde Isaac a écrit :
> This is a brilliant idea. I believe the content translation tool would
be
extremely useful for this.[1]
>
> Best,
>
> Isaac
>
>
https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
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> Subject: [African Wikimedians] Translate-a-thon of African Women Bios
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> In about a week, we will launch a friendly "translate-a-thon" effort on
> 16 biographies of African women so that they get translated in "as many
> languages as possible" (at least 16).
>
> In the meanwhile, we need your help to "improve/polish" the ENGLISH
> Wikipedia version of the biographies selected (as it is likely to be the
> "master" of most translations). #16wikiwomen
>
> Please join and help us to do that :
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_
Translate-a-thon#Our_list_of_16_articles
The complete list includes
* Malouma, Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
* Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, politician, South Africa
* Cri-Zelda Brits, South African crickete
* Manal al-Sharif, Saudi women's rights activist
* Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian women's rights activist
* Flora Nwapa, Nigerian Igbo writer
* Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
* Maggie Laubser, South African painter
* Fatima Massaquoi, Pioneer educator in Liberia
* Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human
rights activist
* Asmaa Mahfouz, Egyptian activist
* Yaa Asantewaa, Ghana, former Queen Mother
* Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer
* Martha Karua, Kenyan politician
* Chinwendu Ihezuo, Nigerian professional footballer
* Nassima Saifi, Paralympian athlete from Algeria
Please defend the colors of your nation if one biography is about
someone from your country !
For those bilingual French/English, please help improve the English
version of
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozizwe_Madlala-Routledge
using the French version
For those bilingual Arabic/English, please help improve the English
version of
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manal_al-Sharif
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmaa_Mahfouz
using the Arabic version
Thanks !
Florence
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:56:09 +0100
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org <javascript:;>>
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
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Subject: [African Wikimedians] Looking for an Arabic/English speaker
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Looking for an Arabic/English speaker to help improve the English
version of the [[Asmaa Mahfouz]] article using the very good Arabic
version. Please help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmaa_Mahfouz
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:22:01 +0200
From: Ahmed Mohi El Din <ah.hamdi(a)wikimedia-eg.org <javascript:;>>
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Looking for an Arabic/English
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Hello Florence,
I got your message on Wikimedia Egypt page and I'll start work on it.
Thank you for your kind reminder.
Regards
Ahmed El ArosiOn Feb 15, 2017 7:56 PM, Florence Devouard <
anthere(a)anthere.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
Looking for an Arabic/English speaker to help improve the English
version of the [[Asmaa Mahfouz]] article using the very good Arabic
version. Please help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmaa_Mahfouz
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 01:12:06 +0100
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org <javascript:;>>
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Looking for an Arabic/English
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Thanks Ahmed !!!
On a side note, here is the status of the translation meta page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon
Hope you can find the new research data useful...
Flo
Le 15/02/2017 à 19:22, Ahmed Mohi El Din a écrit :
Hello Florence,
I got your message on Wikimedia Egypt page and I'll start work on it.
Thank you for your kind reminder.
Regards
Ahmed El ArosiOn Feb 15, 2017 7:56 PM, Florence Devouard <
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for an Arabic/English speaker to help improve the English
version of the [[Asmaa Mahfouz]] article using the very good Arabic
version. Please help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmaa_Mahfouz
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:01:12 +0000
From: abdelwaheb turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr <javascript:;>>
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Dear Mr. or Ms.,
I have submitted a proposal to IdeaLab Inspire about the creation of a
group that searches for, invites and convinces professors emeriti to work
on Wikipedia. As you already know, these professors emeriti have much free
time, are willing to spread their scientific proficiency and knowledge
worldwide so that younger researchers and people can learn from it and
consequently will be happy to contribute to Wikipedia as it can easily help
them achieve what they like. If you liked this important idea, please
support it by endorsing it in
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Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki