Thanks Rex, I think we are on the same page now. Count me in this and let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Warmest On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 8:10 AM Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> wrote: > Good questions, Raphael > > > > - Will this new Twi Wikipedia be specific in terms of being Asante, > Akuapim or Fante? > > > > Yes, it’ll be specific to one, namely, Asante Twi. However, that raises > the question, ‘How about Akuapim or Fante?’, which is legit to ask. > > > > Encompassing all would have been ideal, but that will give in to chaos. > But, here’s a probable solution. > > > > Will it thus make sense to mix them, but not in-articles, in separate > articles? What I mean is, Person/Place A’s article could be labeled as > Akuapim, yet another article of Person/Place B labeled as Asante. > > > > So an article labeled as Akuapim will mean, whoever edits it, **must** > stick to Akuapim for that article. By default, every article will be in > Asante unless otherwise indicated > > > > That way, it doesn’t appear that the other dialects are sidelined. Just a > probable solution though there, **but**, the Twi will be Asante by > default. > > > > - Are we going to have one Wikipedia for all? Or we will be looking at > developing these individual Akan languages subsequently? > > > > So yeah, one for Asante, with room for article-specific dialect options. > > > > *From: *Raphael Berchie <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Friday, November 8, 2019 1:54 PM > *To: *Wikimedia Ghana User Group <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Akan vs Twi Wikipedia - Next Steps? > > > > > > Hello Rex, > > > > I think this is a great initiative as a contributor to the Twi Wikipedia I > get confused a lot of time. I believe if we streamline one it will help us > all. > > > > I however have some concerns. Will this new Twi Wikipedia be specific in > terms of being Asante, Akuapim or Fante? Or it will encompass all? I am > asking this because although all these Akan languages look similar they are > different in many ways. I edit in Asante Twi and find it difficult to write > or even understand certain works in Fante and Akuapem. > > > > Are we going to have one Wikipedia for all? Or we will be looking at > developing these individual Akan languages subsequently? > > > > Regards. > > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 3:27 AM Rexford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Currently there are two local Wikipedias related to the Akan language, > namely, tw.wikipedia.org (Twi) and ak.wikipedia.org (Akan) > > > > In Telegram (the African Wikimedia group), we’ve been having discussions > on going forward with both wikipedias. It is clear one of them needs to be > dropped. Which to drop, we to an extent agree it should be the > ak.wikipedia.org, and the tw.wikipedia.org maintained. > > > > First of all, is that a good step? Any objection(s) to that? > > > > The goal, if I understand clearly, of going forward with only one means > having a streamlined effort in editing. Managing a Wikipedia language space > is not easy, let alone two, and with the limited number of hands on deck > for the local language, a single point of contribution appears much more > worthwhile. > > > > There are articles on both wikipedias at the moment, when the > tw.wikipedia.org is the choice going forward (assuming there’s no > objection), the next step would be to merge the few articles on > ak.wikipedia.org into the tw.wikipedia.org > > > > When all of that is copied over and merged, we can put in a word to ask > for the ak.wikipedia.org can be shutdown (If that’s possible. I guess it > is) > > > > The above sounds like the way forward? Any thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-GH mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh > > -- > > R > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-GH mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh > -- R
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