Hi Douglas, Depending on the date(s), I would be more than happy to help out.
Regards Mohau On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Douglas Scott <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Its been an issue for some time now that the African language Wikipedia's > are not doing as well as the vast majority of other Wikipedia's. Xhosa > Wikipedia, the language of more then seven million South Africans, has only > 125 > articles <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias>, making it > the 272nd largest wiki. About half the size of > Inuktitut<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut_language> Wikipedia. > > > I contacted the head of the African languages department at the University > of Cape Town and had a meeting with him yesterday to discuss it. It seems > like it went very well and I have already been contacted by 9 Xhosa > language specialists in the Western and Eastern Cape who are very > interested in attending a workshop to learn more about editing Wikipedia. > > I would like to know if anyone would be interested in helping me host any > workshops in Cape Town the near future? It would be nice to have another > Wikipedian around to help coach people during the workshop. Since this is > still very early days yet we have not set a date yet for the workshop but I > would like it to take place within the next month or so, or even sooner > then that. I would also be interested in getting your feedback on the > idea. Right now the objective is just to train a few Xhosa language > Wikipedians and make it known to them how free and easy it is to edit > Wikipedia and contribute. As well as to expand Xhosa language Wikipedia by > translating articles from well written English Wikipedia articles. So far > all the people that have contacted me are either academics that specialise > in Xhosa studies at the Universities here in Cape Town or are from > government. > > Best, > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > UK mobile number: +44 (0)755 452 5277 > Chinese mobile number: +86 1 364 330 7351 > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > >
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