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Hi all. I think I should introduce myself first: I am Jon Harald Søby from
Norway. I am a global sysop on Wikimedia projects (which means I can help
you delete things from Wikipedias with no adins if you need it!), and have
been a Wikipedian for over seven years. I am very interested in African
topics (esp. languages), and have lived in Tanzania for six months and
speak some Swahili. I haven't been to West Africa yet, but hope to go there
in not too long!
Now, onto my question. MediaWiki (the software that Wikipedia uses) has an
extension called Narayam <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam>,
which makes it possible to write in scripts other than Latin using a normal
Latin keyboard. This is very useful if you are on a computer with no
software support for your language, for example in an Internet cafe or if
you are in another country or whatever.
Since Akan and Ewe use some characters that are not standard in the Latin
alphabet, I think this could be a useful extension for these Wikipedias as
well. So that it can be tested, I have one question, however: How is a
proper Akan and/or Ewe keyboard set up?
According to this page on Omniglot<http://www.omniglot.com/writing/akan.htm>,
the Akan alphabet has two "special" characters, ɛ and ɔ, which are in place
of the standard Latin letters q and x. Is that they way it works on
keyboards as well? According to the same
website<http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ewe.htm>,
Ewe has even more special characters, which I don't think fit on normal
keyboards.
Also, my impression from East Africa is that there isn't really any
specific keyboard layout used. I have come across keyboards from languages
all over the world, though the usual setting is "US English". Is it the
same way in Ghana? In that case, how do you normally type the special
letters? Do you use some sort of combination or substitution, like "3" for
"ɛ", "C" for "ɔ", or anything like that? If any of you could provide this
information I could create a keyboard layout for it, and you can help test
it.
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mvh
Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
Contact Jon for help with the ak landing page, at jhsoby(a)gmail.com .
HTH
Don
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From: Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com>
Sender: afrophonewikis(a)yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:56:46
To: <afrophonewikis(a)yahoogroups.com>
Reply-To: afrophonewikis(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [afrophonewikis] Wikimedia Ghana seeks help
I can do that, what do they need?
2012/7/15 bisharat_dot_net <dzo(a)bisharat.net>
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>
> I heard from the Wikimedia Ghana group (not yet a chapter) that they are
> seeking to contact a Meta Steward for help with the Akan Wikipedia main
> page. Can anyone help?
>
> Don
>
>
>
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mvh
Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
(cross posting) for the ones with android phones and who like to
upload fotos to wikimedia commons ....
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From: Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)mdammers.nl>
Date: Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:26 PM
Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] WLM Mobile app alpha3
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
<wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
Thanks to the hard work of the mobile team the first Wiki Loves
Monuments mobile app is available now. The application works on your
android phone (not iphone yet) and is in alpa state. Alpha state means
that it's far from finished yet, but ready for people to start testing
with it. You can download the app from
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feed…
. That's also the place to leave feedback about the application.
Have fun and I hope you'll like it!
Maarten
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