Following on from Ian's post, I thought I'd list the existing Wikipedias
in South African languages - as they exist (excluding English). I was
wondering if it might be worth finding out who the editors behind some
of these pages are - while some of the SA language Wikipedias host very
few articles, clearly there is someone behind them and someone who took
the trouble to create them and start initial pages. From my
understanding, the group of people on this list - as it stands - does
not include any non-English/Afrikaans editors as yet, and so it would be
worth our while to contact the people behind these pages and find out
how we can help them grow:
Afrikiaans: 15704 articles (
http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuisblad)
Swati: 175 articles (
http://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likhasi_Lelikhulu)
Tsonga: 173 articles (
http://ts.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlukankulu)
Venda: 164 articles (
http://ve.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayani)
Zulu: 147 articles (
http://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikhasi_Elikhulu)
Xhosa: 115 articles (
http://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphepha_Elingundoqo)
Tswana: 105 articles (
http://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Sotho: 69 articles (
http://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leqephe_la_pele)
Any help that anyone can provide in this regard is much appreciated. I'm
also copying Cary Bass from the Wikimedia Foundation who widely
interacts with editors and other volunteers - Cary, if you can recommend
Wikipedians we can get in touch with regarding the languages listed
above, that would be great. (You will probably have to subscribe to this
list to post to it, and it would be good to have you on here anyway).
Cheers,
Achal