Hi Douglas
I would be very happy to help in a workshop of this nature, and will
contact you in the next few days to discuss further.
On 25/01/2012 15:43, Douglas Scott wrote:
Hello everyone,
Its been an issue for some time now that the African language
Wikipedia's are not doing as well as the vast majority of other
Wikipedia's. Xhosa Wikipedia, the language of more then seven million
South Africans, has only 125 articles
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias>, making it the
272nd largest wiki. About half the size of Inuktitut
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut_language> Wikipedia.
I contacted the head of the African languages department at the
University of Cape Town and had a meeting with him yesterday to
discuss it. It seems like it went very well and I have already been
contacted by 9 Xhosa language specialists in the Western and Eastern
Cape who are very interested in attending a workshop to learn more
about editing Wikipedia.
I would like to know if anyone would be interested in helping me host
any workshops in Cape Town the near future? It would be nice to have
another Wikipedian around to help coach people during the workshop.
Since this is still very early days yet we have not set a date yet
for the workshop but I would like it to take place within the next
month or so, or even sooner then that. I would also be interested in
getting your feedback on the idea. Right now the objective is just to
train a few Xhosa language Wikipedians and make it known to them how
free and easy it is to edit Wikipedia and contribute. As well as to
expand Xhosa language Wikipedia by translating articles from well
written English Wikipedia articles. So far all the people that
have contacted me are either academics that specialise in Xhosa
studies at the Universities here in Cape Town or are from government.
Best,
--
Douglas Ian Scott
司道格
Skype: douglas0scott
UK mobile number: +44 (0)755 452 5277
Chinese mobile number: +86 1 364 330 7351
South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727
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