Re: [African Wikimedians] Kikuyu Wikipedia over 1000 articles

Yes, Aliwal2012's work is impressive. But toiling on one's own often leads to burnout, after a while. "Recruitment of individuals with skills and interest", as you say, is indeed the key. It has proven a quite formidable challenge, for the non-colonial African languages. Even Swahili, the

Re: [African Wikimedians] Kikuyu Wikipedia over 1000 articles

Thanks. This is one of the ongoing challenges for small Wikipedias. It helps to keep the focus on them, but also needed, I think, is recruitment of individuals with skills and interest (that's a long discussion). For small projects, one or a few individuals can have tremendous impact - a

Re: [African Wikimedians] Kikuyu Wikipedia over 1000 articles

Whoever it was, they seem to have given up. There have been zero active editors in the past few months. :( A. On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Don Osborn wrote: > FYI, the Kikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) Wikipedia https://ki.wikipedia.org/ has passed > the 1000 article milestone,

Re: [African Wikimedians] Kikuyu Wikipedia over 1000 articles (Don Osborn)

Thank you Ingo. The congrats go to the Kikuyu contributors - I'm just reporting. Don On 5/7/2016 4:07 AM, Ingo Koll wrote: Hi Don, 1,000 is an accomplishment, thus congrats! Wikistatistics (https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKI.htm) only show non regular activities, large intervals,