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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Hi Gh-Wikipedians
Asaf, a WMF staff published statistics about the number of active *editors* (not edits) of a given language Wikipedia *per country*. Although its just a snapshot (1 month) and can’t tell much, some here might find it interesting too. It is at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asaf_(WMF)/Geowiki>
Cursorily looking at the data on West Africa only, below is what I observed:
On “Active”editors (5+ edits per month)
The English Wikipedia happens to be the most edited in West Africa and is edited in all 18 countries with Nigeria and Ghana having [30-40] and [110-120] "active contributors”respectively, every other country has [0-10] number of Engligh language countributors. For other languages besides English, there are [0-10] number of contributors if they exist at all in any of the 18 West African countries. Interestingly, Senegalese contributors edit 10 different Wikipedia's; this is followed by Mali and Benin contributing to 9 Wikipedias and Cote D'Ivoire 8. All four countries are francophone. See image at <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0jCIl911eXaWGQ4X211cVh0Vkk/view?usp=shari…>
On “Very Active” editors (100+ edits per month)
There aren't more than [0-10] very active contributors to any language in any country in the region. English and French are the most edited languages with English contributions coming from 7 countries including francophone countries; Togo, Benin and Cote D'Ivoire, whiles French "very active" contributions come from 5 countries including Anglophone countries; Nigeria and Ghana. See image at <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0jCIl911eXaQzFKTnFxcC1jWWc/view?usp=shari…> Benin, Nigeria, Cote D'Ivoire and Togo register very active editor contributions on 4 different Wikipedia's. In Ghana, very active contributors are found on English, French and Japanese Wikipedias.
My take on the data
The three officially recognized User groups in the region appear to be doing relatively better than the rest. Another country that is doing well but not yet a user group (and should be looked out for), is Benin. Considering their small population, they have an equal number of “active” editors as Ghana and on top of that they surpass us in number of “very active” contributors. Also, I’m personally surprise to see contributors to languages other than English, French, and Arabic in the region. Languages such as Esperanto, Hebrew, Far Eastern, and Turkish made it into the list, some of them “very active” editors. I'm curious to learn more about who these editors are. In all, no single country seem to have stood out in any big way, maybe we may need to investigate more data from the past or even looking forward into the future to see how these numbers would behave.
Best Regards
-Masssly
I remember in our last small meetup in Accra, we discussed about a come
together for members of wiki gh getting to the end of the year.
Is that plan still on board? Can that happen? Any arrangements needs to be
done? Where should it be held? Will you be interested to attend?
Can't wait to hear your thoughts.
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Here we go. FYI
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Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 are now being accepted. Link is at
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Good luckto anyone applying from this user group.
-Masssly