Last month - the month of July - saw nice improvements in our quest
to promote free and open knowledge in Ghana.
Translation:
The English to Ewe/Twi/Ga/Akan tranlsation saw a major increase in
translation memory and glossary contributions that expanded the
translations. Over 2,000 words were added to the English to Akan
translation memory on Google Translate Toolkit and work on English
to Ga is ongoing. From Hong Kong too, Bodomo is working on English
to Dagaare translation. I wish to take this platform to also thank
Michael Annor, Seyram Ahiabor and Ben Adamtey for their zealous
support in expanding the Ghanaian languages on the international
stage
WLM:
Nkansah Rexford also started work on the Wiki Loves Monuments with
much support from Rupert, a Wikipedian in Switzerland. Much progress
have been reached. Almost all the monuments we can think of are
documented on the site and few additions such as coordinates,
locations, and comments are being added to make it much complete to
be inputted in a database for use in the WLM.
New Members:
The Meta Wikimedia Ghana site recorded new members to the initial
members fold. Sandister Tei, a journalist and blogger, who joined
the initial members also helped rope in new members who are High
School school (JHS). Her zeal in promoting free and open knowledge
became much clearer as she took time off her time to explain to
school kids how generous and educative Wikipedia and other sister
projects can be to their education. She's now an account hold for
our social media campaigns platforms, namely, Wikimedia Ghana
(Facebook, Twitter).
Permission Request:
A request for permission of use of Wikimedia Trademark(s) and logo
has been submitted to the Trademark@wikimedia.org. Even though
awaiting response, we are still working on promoting free and open
knowledge.
WikiCommons:
Myself, Rexford, managed to upload over 20 photos to the Wikicommons
domain for public viewing and sharing. Few of the images were
embedded in articles and the rest will soon find the seats on
wikipedia articles.
The way forward:
We're all doing a great job in promoting free and open knowledge in
our own setting. We're not finding many members to join our fold in
furtherance of our goals and objectives. However, the best way to
for us to impress on the public is via our contributions to
Wikipedia and other sister projects.
Via our social media platforms too, lets encourage as many people to
partake in promoting free and open knowledge. Still, word of mouth
is the best way to get our personal friends to sign up and support
Wikimedia.
I leave you here and wish you all the best in the month of August in
promoting free and open knowledge.
Happy Wikimedian 8-)
Nkansah Rexford