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.
I know longtime editors have their favourite robots(bots)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots> and other tools that help
them edit Wikipedia.
Can we all share them with the new members? Just go to this doc and follow
this format:
Bot or tool name:
At least one main thing a new user can use it for:
A link to read more about the bot or tool:
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A very very, very unfortunate incident.
I think Ghana libraries are currently in a better position to dodge such a
situation when they hurry with digitization.
Perhaps if you're in conversations with Ghana Libraries, or finished talks
with them, you might present this real life case, to them for consideration.
The time is now for digitization.
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Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Subject: [africa-l] RE: Fire Incident at Mzuzu University Library
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Posted on behalf of MALA for any inquiries see details below
*Malawi Library Association: Press Release on the Fire Incident at Mzuzu
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Malawi Library Association (MALA) has learnt with great shock and disbelief
about the fire incident which occurred at Mzuzu University Library on
Friday 18th December, 2015 in which over 45 000 books, journals, and
related resources as well as equipment, furniture and fittings got burnt
down to ashes and some got badly damaged by the blaze. This is a very big
loss, not only to Mzuzu University but also Malawi as a nation. Mzuzu
University Library was a model library in the provision of modern library
and information services in the country. All the books, journals,
equipment, furniture and related fittings were carefully selected in line
with modern standards. It was one of the richest reservoirs of knowledge in
Malawi and beyond.
Malawi Library Association is therefore very saddened that such a model
library and a hard-earned reservoir of knowledge has been lost in a fire
incident. The situation is now very worrisome considering that the
expensive books, equipment and other resources lost in the blaze as well as
the damage caused to the library building cannot be replaced any time soon.
This will adversely affect the delivery of academic programmes at the
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affect Mzuzu University community, but also the membership of the Malawi
Library Association as most of our members were benefitting from Mzuzu
University Library in different ways.
In view of the fore-going, MALA would therefore like to extend its
heart-felt sympathy to management, staff, students, and surrounding
communities of Mzuzu University about the sad loss of our model and
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Date: Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:18 PM
Subject: [BarcampGhana] JOIN THE GHANA VOLUNTEER PROGRAM MAILING LIST
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Please help improve articles of notable women from Ghana. The deadline is
29th and there are prizes to be won. Raphael Berchie has already created
stubs for six of the Ghanaian women. So you can just join team Ghana.
This is the main page
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first edit if you haven't already.
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Hello all.
Thank you for your participation in our local celebration of Wikipedia 15 –
the social media outreach and the party.
If you were able to recruit someone, let them get in touch with me on
0204266290.
2016 looks promising for the group. Group admins are drawing exciting plans
on the way forward but we would like to know what you think as well – your
ideas, your complaints and roles you'd like to play in our plans. Tell us,
fill this form <http://Hello all. Thank you for your participation in our
local celebration of Wikipedia 15 – the social media outreach and the
party. 2016 looks promising for the group. Group admins are drawing
exciting plans on the way forward but we would like to know what you think
as well. Reply this email to with your ideas on what we should do in 2016
and also what to> by Friday, January 22.
If you still haven't joined the Whatsapp group, get in touch on 02024266290.
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Hello fellow wikipedians,
Today, our beloved Wikipedia turns 15. Happy birthday to us all.
I would like to express my profound gratitude to everyone who has
contributed edits to Wikipedia and participated in our events. People like
you are the reason Wikipedia lives and will live on.
For today, let's use #Wikipedia15 hashtag to talk about the wiki on
Facebook and Twitter. You can draw inspiration from our Twitter
<https://twitter.com/WikipediaERP> and Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/PWMGH/>. Also re-share and retweet us.
*Please post "Happy 15th Birthday Wikipedia! #Wikipedia15" (Or however
you'll put it) on Twitter or Facebook today. *
You can join the Whatsapp group if you intend to attend the Wikipedia15
party and also join online campaigns for the rest of January. Reach me on
0204266290 to be added.
Find more information here <http://erpgh.wmgh.org/2016/01/wikipedia15.html>.
Thank you all. Here's to more years to come, seeing our wiki grow bigger
and bigger and more influential –– and also, Ghanaian wikipedians making a
bigger impact in the broader community.
*Regards, *
*Sandister Tei *
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If you’re active on many Wikimedia projects and want to conveniently keep track of related changes, this tool [1] will help u.
[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/crosswatch/
-Masssly