In behalf of the 26 million speakers of Cebuano (60% of which have access to online resources by conservative estimates), I would like to request for a Wikipedia in the Cebuano language.
We already have the minimum number of interested persons who will work on the encyclopedia.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Cebuano
Thank you for your time.
bentong
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Wow!
You guys really drummed up support quickly!
Yes, please, we should have the Cebuano Wikipedia created right away.
It's high time we have Wikipedia in the non-Tagalog languages of the Philippines, many of which are spoken by millions.
Mark
On 10/06/05, Vincent Bentong S. Isles bentong_isles@yahoo.com wrote:
In behalf of the 26 million speakers of Cebuano (60% of which have access to online resources by conservative estimates), I would like to request for a Wikipedia in the Cebuano language.
We already have the minimum number of interested persons who will work on the encyclopedia.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Cebuano
Thank you for your time.
bentong
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Wow!
You guys really drummed up support quickly!
Yes, please, we should have the Cebuano Wikipedia created right away.
It's high time we have Wikipedia in the non-Tagalog languages of the Philippines, many of which are spoken by millions.
Mark
Hear, hear!
And let's pray we can expect more new succesful non-western Wikipedias in the near future, or hope for the animation of many of those dormant wikipedias!
Wouter
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And let's pray we can expect more new succesful non-western Wikipedias in the near future, or hope for the animation of many of those dormant wikipedias!
About those dormant Wikipedias... today Aliu Mamadu Jallo helped me translating the Fulfude interface a bit. We also managed to start a nice first article. :)
Does Aliu Mamadu Jallo have regular internet access? And if so, can he type the special characters nessecary for writing Fulfulde?
And how will Fulfulde be handled in terms of dialects, namely that some will tell you Fulfulde is a dialect of Pulaar?
But yes, it's a wonderful achievement. :)
Mark
On 12/06/05, Guaka guaka@no-log.org wrote:
And let's pray we can expect more new succesful non-western Wikipedias in the near future, or hope for the animation of many of those dormant wikipedias!
About those dormant Wikipedias... today Aliu Mamadu Jallo helped me translating the Fulfude interface a bit. We also managed to start a nice first article. :)
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Does Aliu Mamadu Jallo have regular internet access? And if so, can he type the special characters nessecary for writing Fulfulde?
I managed to find 3 of the 5 used phonetic characters (like on the Bambara Wikipedia), and put them in the add-character-box that's included in the edit page. I still need the "rounded" Y if you know what I mean? (I don't, really :) And the 'ng', a rounded n, the one that is also missing on the Bambara Wikipedia. This could probably be due to a problem with the phonetic fonts on Debian, since I did found the obviously correct place in the unicode IPA table on Wikipedia, but it's only like a normal "n" on my screen.
Unfortunately he doesn't use a computer. It's also pretty hard for him to use it, since he's having troubles with his eyes. I have some video footage of us doing the work, which I'll try to upload one of these days. It's difficult to have a nice, usable layout _and_ big characters. This should probably be tackled by the MediaWiki devs. There should be an easy way to access a special Mediawiki mode for people with trouble seeing.
Also, I've just returned to the Netherlands. Fortunately I know Aliu thanks to Bamako's free software guru, and I'll contact him to find out a way to add more of Aliu's writing.
And how will Fulfulde be handled in terms of dialects, namely that some will tell you Fulfulde is a dialect of Pulaar?
Good question. I haven't figured out this one. It's probably good to start a page in the Wikipedia namespace on ff.wp.
But yes, it's a wonderful achievement. :)
I'm especially happy that the interface is partially translated. Maybe it's good to have a list of 20 terms to be translated in order to create a useable Wikipedia for people who don't understand English (or French in case a language is for the largest part spoken in francophone countries). African languages don't really observe state borders. And hence the borders between francophone, anglophone, lusuphone and otherphone area's, which can make it difficult to choose the appropriate "starting language".
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 13:39 +0100, Timwi wrote:
Guaka wrote:
I still need the "rounded" Y if you know what I mean?
Ƴ U+01B3 Ƴ ƴ U+01B4 ƴ
Are there also capital letters for the other signs? http://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning http://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning
And the 'ng', a rounded n
Ŋ U+014A Ŋ ŋ U+014B ŋ
Somehow the ng's look like normal n's on my screen. Maybe there's something wrong with my font stuff, or with Debian's or XFree's in general. If it's just wrong for me then I can add it. Maybe _you_ (people on this list) can let me know if it works for you, and what system you use...
thanks, Guaka
Guaka schrieb:
Ŋ U+014A Ŋ ŋ U+014B ŋ
Somehow the ng's look like normal n's on my screen. Maybe there's something wrong with my font stuff, or with Debian's or XFree's in general. If it's just wrong for me then I can add it. Maybe _you_ (people on this list) can let me know if it works for you, and what system you use...
For me it works, it looks like the IPA sign for [[en:Velar nasal]] (Win XP/Mozilla Thunderbird).
Rdb
Guaka wrote:
Ƴ U+01B3 Ƴ ƴ U+01B4 ƴ
Are there also capital letters for the other signs? http://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning http://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning
Of course there are. But I can't edit those messages because they're protected.
Somehow the ng's look like normal n's on my screen. Maybe there's something wrong with my font stuff, or with Debian's or XFree's in general.
Doesn't surprise me. Use Windows.
Timwi
Somehow the ng's look like normal n's on my screen. Maybe there's something wrong with my font stuff, or with Debian's or XFree's in general.
Doesn't surprise me. Use Windows.
I haven't yet found a free version of Windows. Free as in freedom and in free beer.
Guaka wrote:
Somehow the ng's look like normal n's on my screen. Maybe there's something wrong with my font stuff, or with Debian's or XFree's in general.
Doesn't surprise me. Use Windows.
I haven't yet found a free version of Windows. Free as in freedom and in free beer.
If you want only "free", then don't complain that the "free" operating systems don't have the functionality you need ;-)
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Timwi wrote:
If you want only "free", then don't complain that the "free" operating systems don't have the functionality you need ;-)
Free as in freedom - one of the pillars on which Wikipedia stands :)
Cheers,
Rob
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