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