[African Wikimedians] Unwanted changes of skin at Swahili Wikipedia and refusal to take it back

Hi everybody at Swahili Wikipedia we have seen changes to our appearance which were caused by action of a "Wikimedia Foundation Web team", without our own consent. We discussed it in the community and by unanominous vote decided to go back to the previous format. (see

Re: [African Wikimedians] Advice on infobox templates for smaller language versions

Dear All who knows the place where to find friendly wikipedians who are template-wise? For us at swwiki (and probably other smaller language versions too) importing templates for infoboxes has become more and more challenging as these have grown to be more and more complicated. As we just

Re: [African Wikimedians] Sudden expansion of Masri Wikipedia

NB: looking at it: they might even work manually, not purely by bot? On 05.03.2020 19:21, Ingo Koll wrote: Hi everybody I noticed a sudden expansion of arz.wikipedia (Egyptian Arabic dialect version). Can one of our Arabic speakers help (it would save time for me as my Arabic is bati' ktir

[African Wikimedians] Sudden expansion of Masri Wikipedia

Hi everybody I noticed a sudden expansion of arz.wikipedia (Egyptian Arabic dialect version). Can one of our Arabic speakers help (it would save time for me as my Arabic is bati' ktir -too slow)? Arz.wiki used to hover under 20,000 articles for years, was at 24,000 until November 2019 and then

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 12, Issue 7

Hi Rudolph, most welcome, karibu sana! What is your  wiki - ID? (you know among us wikipedia people we often like to snoop a bit and see how the other one has edited, on what topics etc - to which our software  luckily gives us the opportunity to be curious a bit) Cheers - Kipala from swwiki

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 57

Dear Isa, dear Isaac, thanks for taking the trouble to react to my lines. As for access - this seems to be ok now. It was not a question of which language. I understand now the tool is not designed for cleaning up. I think the tool is helpful - well for salvaging some material. It would be more

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 11, Issue 56

Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the language preference.  Was told every time  "Something Went Wrong! Isa might be undergoing maintenance". Is that functional? Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not have to clean up. I had

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 10, Issue 63

Hi everybody, at Swahili Wikipedia we have an unusual project; the University of Dar es Salaam asked for a manuscript for a Swahili Lexicon of Astronomy. This will be the text of all related articles on our wikipedia. (The proposal gives some background about this request). In September we

[African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, African language statistics doubtful

Hi everybody some of you know that I look from time to time into the statistics for African language wikipedias. Today I made a comparison which makes me doubt the usefulness of our beautiful wikimedia statistics, at least for small wikipedias. I found large differences for the same months in

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, WikiIndaba Tunis in March 2018

Hi everybody I was asked from the Tanzanian group about upcoming WikiIndaba. When I open the site https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018, I find it still with many empty spaces and some information in between. Altogether I find the site not easy to navigate. To find the

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 154

Hi, idea sounds good but how to measure? We live and work in separate environments, eg working in English, French, Arabic, Afrikaans or Swahili. I definitely have candidates from Swahili wp, but nobody outside our biotope pobably knows them. On the other hand: if someone uploaded a few hundred

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 47

Dear Isaac, forgive me for trying to contribute something sarcastic. I just wanted to point to the fact, that the nice article from Brazil about our project carried a pretty stupid prejudice by listing different "languages", but called the African ones just "dialects" , as if the sounds coming

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 35

NB: Asha–Rose Migiro would not be bad, either! ingo Am 12.02.2017 um 19:00 schrieb african-wikimedians-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org: Yaa Asantewaa ___ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 35

Chere Florence if it is allowed to point out that Saudi Arabia is not exactly Africa, so what about taking Anna Tibaijuka from Tanzania in the list instead? (so far existing in Deutsch, Français, Hrvatski, Kiswahili, Polski, Português, 中文 - which is less than the lady from Saudi or Yaa

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 23

Hi, I tried to understand the problem. Not so easy in detail. I see that they played at international tournaments, there are no further sources except that they are mentioned in team lists. That is not much but by my reading fulfills requirement of notability. Did anyone of you try to

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 17

Hello everybody I hope everybody returned home safely and in good spirits! Just wanted to say I had a good time and enjoyed very much to see you all. The time spent on crowded aeroplanes and waiting for connections was worth while. I add that I uploaded a slightly enhanced version of my

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 7

Reacting to Massey, why not have all submissions received so far made accessible for all participants? Even if the programme still needs some finetuning, we could already see what is ahead. Cheers Ingo From: Masssly " with a few days to Indaba, theprogram page still looks

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, WikiIndaba at Accra

Dear Felix, dear organizers I am happy to hear (as surely all others are) that the preparations have gone well! I think it will be helpful for all participants to have a description of the place (adress, phone numbers of hotel and/or contact person on the team) we have to go from the airport,

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 139 African languages wikipedias

Hi Isaac, I do not understand any Yoruba but from my point of view I see quality as probable reason for problems you mention including small readership. Yoruba Wikipedia has many extremely short articles even on basic subjects. ( Odò (river), Erékùsù (Island), Omi (water), Òkun Atlántíkì

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 136 African languages wikipedias

Hi Isaac, looking at the report "page views per country" you get numbers which wikipedia versions were opened per country. https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdown.htm and you can choose "detailed version" Looking at Nigeria and Madagascar you see

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 134 Concerning African language wikipedias

Concerning African language wikipedias: I follow Asaf's advice and post my text here: Hi *Ian, thanks for your continuous look at African language wikipedias.* I agree with you that Afrikaans is indeed the best quality among these. But *to look at only article numbers can be very misleading *as

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 129 African language Wikipedia update

Hi Ian, you did a great overview! I propose also to look at some quality indicators because just article numbers cannot say if people will read the contributions. There are content benchmarks like the "1,000/10,000 topics every wikipedia should have" lists, and some ideas to look up

Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 110

Hi Raphael, hongera sana (BIG congrats!!!) Greetings from Swahili planet (or moon?) of wikipedia Ingo - kipala Am 03.11.2016 um 10:36 schrieb african-wikimedians-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org: 20th-22nd January 2017 in >Accra Ghana. ___

[African Wikimedians] Participation in WIkiindaba

RE: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 7, Issue 60, Participation in WIkiindaba I found it interesting to read the discussion linked in Asafs short post. As the Indaba was my first WMF-event ever I wondered about the several people I met who obviously never or only very rarely had ever done edits