New subject: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37

19 Feb 2017

Hi all,

if it's not too late you could include
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangari_Maathai for translation.
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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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 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:34:01 +0100
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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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  Manal al-Sharif 

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 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:49:27 +0100
 From: Florence Devouard &lt;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

 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:24:19
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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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florence Devouard &lt;anthere(a)anthere.org <javascript:;>>
> Sender: "African-Wikimedians" < 
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 12 Feb 2017 14:02:47
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> Subject: [African Wikimedians] Translate-a-thon of African Women Bios
>
> 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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 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 &lt;ah.hamdi(a)wikimedia-eg.org <javascript:;>>
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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
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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 <  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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 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 https://meta.wikimedia.org/
 wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inviting_Professors_Emeriti_to_contribute_to_Wikipedia
 .

 Yours Sincerely,

 Houcemeddine Turki

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