I should add that monitoring recent changes on small and inactive Wikipedias, I was initially very skeptical of your plans and figured that they would be unfruitful.
Although it took a while since when you first posted the information about possible payment for articles, you have shown me to be wrong on this subject and for that I am very happy.
An issue I have, though, is: how many speakers of Bamana and Fulfulde have access to the internet, to actually read these articles? How many even have access to a computer? I know that the hope is that at some point in the future, more people will be able to read these articles, but shouldn't their very creation go hand-in-hand with wider disemination of internet technologies in Mali, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Guinea...? I know there has been some activity to install the internet at local radio stations, but what about the non-broadcasting public, the plebes? If somebody could set up some sort of "free net-cafe" in Bamako, with time-limits to prevent one person from using the computer all the time, and offer classes in how to operate computers, I'm sure that would help.
Mark
On 16/06/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
Hehe... that liquor on top of that shelf must be nice after spending a few hours writing in longhand.
Mark
On 16/06/05, Guaka guaka@no-log.org wrote:
...can be seen here... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Aliu_Amadu_Jallo_working_on_the_firs...
...while working on the manuscripts of http://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndimaagu
:)
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