Languages October 2012

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Wikimedia Indigenous Languages's second meeting
by JP Béland 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

I think we should held a second meeting for WIL before Christmas. Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Indigenous_Languages#Second_W… Thanks, JP Béland aka Amqui

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Bleek and Lloyd transcription project
by Ngoni MUNYARADZI 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

Hi My name is Ngoni, a Masters student in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. I work in the Digital Libraries Laboratory, primarily focusing on research based on the preservation and transcription of the Bleek and Lloyd collection(!xam and !kun), link: http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za/ I am attempting to use a crowd-sourced volunteer model to transcribe the Bleek and Lloyd collection by using thousands of volunteers who will each transcribe a small amount of text using the transcription tool I've developed. I noticed on your Facebook group that you do similar research focusing on indigenous languages. Would you be able to help me publicize my project to communities who might have interest in preserving endangered languages or any interested researchers/people doing similar projects, that might been keen to participate in this research? Feel free to visit my project website and test out the transcription tool: http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za/transcribe_bushman Looking forward to your response. regards Ngoni ### UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN This e-mail is subject to the UCT ICT policies and e-mail disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/about/policies/emaildisclaimer/ or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. This e-mail is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. If the e-mail has reached you in error, please notify the author. If you are not the intended recipient of the e-mail you may not use, disclose, copy, redirect or print the content. If this e-mail is not related to the business of UCT it is sent by the sender in the sender's individual capacity. ###

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Translation
by James Heilman 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Unfortunately it does not look like their is an active editing community at Dari and thus it would not be eligible. Hopefully one day. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Translation
by James Heilman 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Working on a collaboration with Translators Without Borders to translate 80 key medical articles into Dari. Have added a couple here http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/prs/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AE%D… <http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/prs/%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AE%D…>Wondering what the steps are to get it approved as an official language? Am hoping to get the translators to also begin editing Wikipedia. And could also use a bunch of templates to work. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Small Wiki Editor Engagement Program
by Tanvir Rahman 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hello everyone, If someone is interested, I would like to draw your attention to Small Wiki Editor Engagement Program on Bangla Wikipedia, a small Wikipedia with roughly 10-15 very active editors. This is a project under Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship Program, and this project is already making a good contribution to editor engagement in Bangla Wikipedia. This project has a portal on Meta-Wiki in English that you can read. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_Wiki_Editor_Engagement_Project For the frequently asked questions on this project, see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_Wiki_Editor_Engagement_Project/Frequen… For the monthly report of this project: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_Wiki_Editor_Engagement_Project/Report And of course if you would like to give a feedback, please fee free to drop one: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_Wiki_Editor_Engagement_Project/Feedback If you have anymore questions feel free to get in touch with me. Thanks, T. -- Tanvir Rahman Community Fellow Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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Wikimedia Indigenous Languages`s Strategy Plan
by JP Béland 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Good day, I think it would be a good idea to develop something like a strategy/action plan for Wikimedia Indigenous Languages so everybody would be on the same page and it would be clearer for non-Wikimedians people of what its our goals and mission. It would also be useful to show interested people what we can do or offer. So I'd like to hear everybody ideas, suggestions, concerns and hopes about this project so we can brainstorm all together. JP

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