Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Andre Engels wrote:
Estimates I find on the net speak of 2 million speakers rather than 4 or 5 million. Still, that number is of course more than enough to say that a Wikipedia would be a good idea. I do see a problem with the low internet access in the region; I fear you might remain the only contributor for quite some time. Still, my opinion here is positive.
The ISO 639 code for Tumbuka is 'tum', so the location would be tum.wikipedia.org.
Andre Engels
Hello,
And how many speaker of this language are able to write it and have an internet access ? :o)
When you read the original message that asked for the wikipedia, you will read that at least one person WHO SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE is interested in doing the work. Someone interested in promoting the language so in my book this is a real and relevant opportunity to adress some of the bias that we have against Africa and its subjects in Wikipedia. The current version article on Tumbuka in the en:wikipedia is extremely poor. By getting more wikipedia content on Africa and in African languages by having all the African words we can get in wiktionary we adress a wrongness in what we currently have.
It is not the amount of speakers with internet access that is relevant, it is that we adress Africa at all. At this moment I think it is the subject that has the poorest covering of all in all the wikipedia's.
Thanks, GerardM