I have added Carl to this mailing list.
If you wish to get in touch with him directly, you may do so. Carl's email
is in the cc of this email.
I'm glad many have showed interest. Lets keep it going then!
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Okay, I've added you.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Carl Fredrik Sjöland <
> cfsjoland(a)icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rexford,
>>
>> I would be delighted to join. I may have difficulty sorting through the
>> information, seeing as I receive many mails, but at the very least I can
>> join the mailing group - thank you.
>>
>> Best,
>> Carl Fredrik
>>
>> 22 aug 2014 kl. 20:01 skrev Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi Carl, I put you call through our Ghanaian mailing list and have
>> received some guys who are interested to do the translations to three or
>> four Ghanaian languages.
>>
>> I have recommended they get in touch with you directly, however I'm
>> thinking of adding you to our mailing list so you can also bring to table
>> suggestions etc.
>>
>> Lemme know if that's cool with you. We can take you off anytime later.
>>
>> Thanks
>> On Aug 22, 2014 11:13 AM, "Carl Fredrik Sjöland" <cfsjoland(a)icloud.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rexford,
>>>
>>> I'm sorry for the late reply, I've been away and for some reason this
>>> mail didn't go out from my usual account.
>>> I'd be very grateful for any contacts interested in working on the
>>> project, and we are also looking for community organizers for specific
>>> languages. Also, we are looking into various Ghanan languages, if you know
>>> of anyone who may be willing to translate the Ebola article for example. As
>>> for regional banner, do you mean on specific Wikipedias? And who do I in
>>> this case turn to?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Carl Fredrik Sjöland
>>>
>>> On Aug 13, 2014, at 08:03 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Carl,
>>>
>>> Thanks for getting in touch and I'm glad the medical translation is in
>>> progress.
>>>
>>> The need to get those medical articles into Afrikaans and Xhosa is very
>>> important.
>>>
>>> I can help in trying to reach out to as many persons as possible who
>>> speak these languages.
>>>
>>> I, for myself, I am a Ghanaian by birth and can't speak nor understand
>>> nor write any of the South African languages except for English.
>>>
>>> However, I think I can be of assistance by putting up a call for persons
>>> to who can speak that language to help in the translation.
>>>
>>> One area I would suggest you exhaust is also putting a regional banner
>>> on Wikipedia inviting persons who speak that language to volunteer.
>>>
>>> I'll start right away in trying to reach out to many people as possible,
>>> and I hope I get persons who will be interested and be of assistance.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone
>>> On Aug 12, 2014 11:51 AM, "Carl Fredrik Sjöland" <cfsjoland(a)icloud.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> We spoke briefly at Wikimania, and I was delighted to hear that you may
>>>> be able to put us in touch with Xhosa and Lhasa speaking people. We spoke
>>>> about possibly reaching out to a number of medical students, and Victor was
>>>> even able to tell me that one of the girls who participated in the video
>>>> was studying medicine now.
>>>> If we could work on spreading the translations of Ebola as fast as
>>>> possible it could bring about an increase in the awareness of the project.
>>>> Currently we are translating into a large number of languages, but have
>>>> found no translators from any South African language.
>>>>
>>>> To see the full extent of our current translation work on Ebola please
>>>> go to:
>>>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RTTS
>>>> and look for group 7 or 8, where most of the African languages we are
>>>> working on are grouped. If you are able to put us in contact with anyone
>>>> willing to help in a language not on this list currently, we are very open
>>>> to expanding it - even if this Wikipedia doesn't exist yet, we also have
>>>> content on the incubator.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Carl Fredrik Sjöland
>>>> Wikiproject Medicine
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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Wiki Loves Africa is still ongoing and we will appreciate if you all can
share this poster with your friends and all those in your networks. The
social media is no exception though.
On Saturday we held the 1st photowalk which covered food joints, utensils,
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Come learn from, share and network with various young professionals and
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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org> </div><div>Date:20/11/2014 19:12 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org </div><div>Cc: translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org </div><div>Subject: [Translators-l] Community Liaison job openings at WMF </div><div>
</div>Hello, and apologies for the cross-posting. There are currently two job openings [0], and I thought someone here might be interested. Specifically:
*Community Liaison [1] - this position will initially focus on working with the Flow team and also with the Editing (VisualEditor) team [2], mostly at non-English wikis; however, a lot of smaller or short-term tasks continually come up, so the WMF is particularly looking for someone who is adaptable, and with diverse interests.
*Community Liaison (Part time contract) [3] - this part-time position will primarily focus on working with the Mobile teams [4], as the link explains.
If you need further information, feel free to send an email to cep(a)lists.wikimedia.org (but do not use the address to apply!). Please pass this message along, if you know someone who might be interested or a good fit for the Community Engagement team [5]. Thanks!
Best,
Elitre (WMF)
[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us#Wikimedia_Careers
[1] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/34698?t=i2jvpo#.VGaj8MluQfI
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow , https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor
[3] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/35259?t=kyra75#.VGakF8luQfI
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)
Allow me to crosspost this...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Emmanuel Engelhart" <kelson(a)kiwix.org>
> Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:18 PM
> Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books
available to everybody, everywhere, offline
> To: "Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline" <
offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org>, <
wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: "kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net" <
kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, "kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net"
<kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> Hi,
>
> The Kiwix team is happy to release the whole Project Gutenberg
> (http://www.gutenberg.org/) library in a ZIM format:
>
http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11.zim.torre…
.
> We also provide a few language specific versions here
> http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg.
>
> This file is dedicated to an offline usage (no connection to Internet)
> and it readable with Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org). This allows anybody
> with a computer or a smartphone to own his own copy of this 50.000 books
> big library. You can also make it available for read to other people on
> your network, they only need a web browser.
>
> In this ZIM file, you will find all the books available in HTML
> (directly readable), but also in EPUB (and time to time in PDF). We have
> created a custom user interface which is really simple to use: in a few
> clicks you can find your book, read it or download it. What is also
> unique is that Kiwix proposes a fulltext search engine over all books
> content. You can see by yourself using this demonstration web site:
> http://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/
>
> Most of the work was done during a week long hackathon in Lyon, France
> by four Kiwix volunteer developers. This hackathon was funded by the
> Fondation Orange with the administrative help of Framasoft and Wikimedia
> CH. The Fondation Orange is the first beneficiary of this work and use
> it already for its own deployments in Africa.
>
> The solution to build this ZIM file is 100% free software and is
> available here https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg. This solution allows
> to release easily new up2date versions. This is not a "one shot" project
> and we will release periodically new version of this offline version of
> the Project Gutenberg.
>
> We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free
> books libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add,
> this might be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available.
>
> We hope to see this work deployed by other third part organisation which
> are on place where Internet is not available, expensive or censored. We
> also need more developer (mostly Python) workforce for the next steps, a
> hackathon with this purpose will hopefully be organised in 2015 (sponsor
> needed). Last but not least: users, please report any problem here:
> https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg/issues
>
> Regards
> Emmanuel
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