Dear all,
I am excited to share some of the latest updates from the Ghanaian Wikipedia communities that I am currently supporting as part of the A+F West African language project. As you may be aware, the Gurene Wikipedia https://gur.wikipedia.org/ was approved last month, and this week, the Ghanaian Pidgin and the Fante Wikipedia incubators have also been approved. I started the West African language project to initially support the Dagbani, the Gurene, and the Ghanaian Pidgin language Wikis in Ghana. Four more languages are coming on board!
On the other hand, I am excited to share that we will be hosting a two-day language meetup in Tamale https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghanaian_Languages_Meetup for all nine language communities in Ghana, including the three language communities that A+F is currently supporting under the West African language program. The event is funded through the WMF Rapid Program. The meetup will be added to the A+F event dashboard soon.
I am very excited about this event, as I will be engaging all the language communities in Ghana.
*Sadik Shahadu * *West African Language Coordinator* Art + Feminism https://www.artandfeminism.org/ *Advisory Board Member* *Open Education for a Better World https://oe4bw.org/advisory-board/* *Call/Whatsapp: +233244666136* *Twitter: @Sadike25 https://twitter.com/Sadike25* Certified Nonprofit Technology Professional https://api.accredible.com/v1/frontend/credential_website_embed_image/certificate/30777145 Recent publication: A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/462
*Yes, we can!*
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 1:33 AM Sadik Shahadu sadik@artandfeminism.org wrote:
Dear all,
I am excited to share some of the latest updates from the Ghanaian Wikipedia communities that I am currently supporting as part of the A+F West African language project. As you may be aware, the Gurene Wikipedia https://gur.wikipedia.org/ was approved last month, and this week, the Ghanaian Pidgin and the Fante Wikipedia incubators have also been approved. I started the West African language project to initially support the Dagbani, the Gurene, and the Ghanaian Pidgin language Wikis in Ghana. Four more languages are coming on board!
Impressive. Interesting. Inspirational.
Can you share a bit more info and add links? What are the sizes of those populations? How different are those languages?
I struggle to support well Incubation of Montenegrin Wikipedia which is bluntly blocked for creation of new articles by an admin, without community process. One brilliant test-admin left *(she is amazing feminist social scientist) and a single other contributor is left (she is a tough coder willing to fight more).
Now language committee is casually discussing to block it, though Montenegrin is standard language of country, with 604.000 inhabitants and unique letters to latin script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegrin_language IMHO it is very patronizing to want to block incubation without actually knowing much about the region and needs.
Is anyone able to advise on this situation? https://w.wiki/6der
Best Z.
Hi Željko,
Thank you for your email, and it's nice to hear about language Wikipedia initiatives. I am just replying to make sure I have responded well to some of your questions in our last one-on-one call.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Warm regards,
*Sadik Shahadu * *West African Language Coordinator* Art + Feminism https://www.artandfeminism.org/ *Advisory Board Member* *Open Education for a Better World https://oe4bw.org/advisory-board/* *Call/Whatsapp: +233244666136* *Twitter: @Sadike25 https://twitter.com/Sadike25* Certified Nonprofit Technology Professional https://api.accredible.com/v1/frontend/credential_website_embed_image/certificate/30777145 Recent publication: A global outlook to the interruption of education due to COVID-19 pandemic: Navigating in a time of uncertainty and crisis http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/462
*Yes, we can!*
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 8:21 AM Željko Blaće zblace@mi2.hr wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 1:33 AM Sadik Shahadu sadik@artandfeminism.org wrote:
Dear all,
I am excited to share some of the latest updates from the Ghanaian Wikipedia communities that I am currently supporting as part of the A+F West African language project. As you may be aware, the Gurene Wikipedia https://gur.wikipedia.org/ was approved last month, and this week, the Ghanaian Pidgin and the Fante Wikipedia incubators have also been approved. I started the West African language project to initially support the Dagbani, the Gurene, and the Ghanaian Pidgin language Wikis in Ghana. Four more languages are coming on board!
Impressive. Interesting. Inspirational.
Can you share a bit more info and add links? What are the sizes of those populations? How different are those languages?
I struggle to support well Incubation of Montenegrin Wikipedia which is bluntly blocked for creation of new articles by an admin, without community process. One brilliant test-admin left *(she is amazing feminist social scientist) and a single other contributor is left (she is a tough coder willing to fight more).
Now language committee is casually discussing to block it, though Montenegrin is standard language of country, with 604.000 inhabitants and unique letters to latin script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegrin_language IMHO it is very patronizing to want to block incubation without actually knowing much about the region and needs.
Is anyone able to advise on this situation? https://w.wiki/6der
Best Z.
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