On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Fred Bauder wrote:
Might try http://allafrica.com/
I use it a lot. Do not, however, use it for ==External links. allafrica.com are news aggregators (they do not write anything themselves) and after a few days the articles are only readable on a subscription basis.
Find the original material and link to that instead.
I agree with another poster who said that to access technical subjects (computers, science, voting systems?) a first-world language can be required.
For instance, KDE has a Xhosa translation. But a friend who is a native Xhosa speaker says the menus are very confusing - "Run" as in "Run this program" get translated to "Run away" or something. He says it is much easier to use the English menus.
Fault could be laid at the translators door, but often the concepts are not easily represented in African languages.
If we plug away at the en: wikipedia, adding African-related articles, maybe a couple of years down the line we will be able to automatically translate to Xhosa. I think that is a /much/ better use of everyone's time than writing a Xhosa wikipedia.
Andy's 2 cents ..
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