Hey all,

We just published "Developing a Songhay Wikipedia from scratch: Mohomodou Houssouba" to the blog. URL:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/26/developing-songhay-wikipedia/

Many thanks to Victor for profiling, as well as to everyone for editing. 

Below are some proposed social media messages. Please tweak as needed.

Twitter (@wikimedia/@wikipedia):

• Literary scholar Mohomodou Houssouba's plans for a Songhay Wikipedia
• Mohomodou Houssouba on his plans for an offline, Songhay-language Wikipedia
• "To have a Wikipedia in Songhay, that could be made available offline, would be major for us."

Facebook/Google+:

• Though now a literary scholar at the Univeristy of Basel in Switzerland, Mohomodou Houssouba has big plans to benefit those without internet access in Mali.
• Mohomodou Houssouba plans to create a new Wikipedia project to benefit the Songhay-speaking Mali population.

thanks,
Joe

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Joe Sutherland
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