Hello WikimediaZA,

Nhlanhla and I were at Wikimania and Gerard approached us saying that Sotho WP was on the verge of being deleted unless editors were found to help. I've tweeted and put out a call on Facebook with one reply for help from a friend (who will ask his friends). But perhaps everyone on this list might put out a similar call? 

I was thinking of putting a little thread together just to urge each other on (I'm going to start editing prominent Africans in English this week) - or we could add people to this list?

best,
Heather.

Begin forwarded message:

From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
Date: August 29, 2011 10:39:45 AM PDT
To: Heather Ford <hford@ushahidi.com>
Cc: Nhlanhla Mabaso <NMabaso@gmail.com>, Language committee <langcom-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: Sotho

Hoi,
I promised that nothing would be done for a month from the end of Wikimania. So nothing has been done yet and we, the members of the WMF language committee hope that that is the end of the story. It is best when our projects thrive and get the attention they so desperately need.
Thanks,
      Gerard

On 29 August 2011 19:05, Heather Ford <hford@ushahidi.com> wrote:
Hi Gerard,

Trying to find the closure of the Sotho WP and found only this https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Sotho_Wikipedia but it says that there's a new policy? Hopefully Nhlanhla and I can convince people to start editing (if it hasn't been removed already)

Best,
Heather.


Heather Ford
Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver
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Heather Ford 
Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver
http://ushahidi.com | http://swiftly.org 
@hfordsa on Twitter
http://hblog.org