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[The African Commons Project] The African Commons Project » Wikipedia Academies: Boosting South ...: And if you need any more inspiring, watch this video documenting the first Wikipedia Academy event, which includes an interview with Jimmy Wales and highlights from the day.

[Pub Philosopher] Translation madness: The languages available include but are not limited to, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, French, Gaelic, Georgian, German, Ghanaian, Greek, Gujerati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Igbo , Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish , Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serb-Croat, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Yoruba and Zulu.

[LiveImagePhoto] Wikimedia Hits its big, 4th most popular internet site, funded by ...: Largest Wikipedias: English (2.4 million articles), German (765,000), French (675,000), Polish (515,000), Japanese (500,000).

[iCommons.org - articles] iCommons.org - The Wikipedia Academies Launch in Johannesburg: On Sunday, a small group of Afrikaans Wikipedians and local Afrikaans media met with Wales to discuss how to advance Afrikaans Wikipedia which has been called ‘a tiny giant’. Laurens Cloete, an active contributor and administrator on Afrikaans Wikipedia, spoke about some of the strategies they could employ to grow their community and to reach out to other local language Wikipedias in Africa.

[Tech News Watch] Wikipedia Founder Leads South African Wikipedia Academies In ...: The Wikimedia Foundation, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, announced today that it will host Wikipedia Academy workshops in various locations throughout South Africa on November 10 and 11, 2007. Co-hosted by South Africa-based nonprofit organization, iCommons, the goal of the Wikipedia Academies is to stimulate the growth of the local-language Wikipedias in South Africa.

[TLC Studio] Review: Wikipedia what is it « TechMASAI: A very beautiful part about Wikipedia is that you can read it in many languages. there is a horde of people out there who set down and translated many of the infomation there into most of the major languages.

[Hacklog] Hacklog » Blog Archive » Reports of Afrikaans’ Death Greatly Contested: Reports of Afrikaans’ Death Greatly Contested. Written by Patrick Hall, November 15th, 2008. Yippee! Angry language arguments! Scene the first:. Kid in South Africa decides to study Zulu instead of Afrikaans, because he says Afrikaans ...

[iCommons.org - articles] iCommons.org - Afrikaans Wikipedia - A Tiny Giant: The irony, however, is that in South Africa, Afrikaans Wikipedia is by far the biggest and most dynamic local language Wikipedia project, even though isiZulu and isiXhosa have many more speakers. What is also interesting and important to note is that, although language does define many South Africans’ identity, it also transcends racial boundaries.

[The Wikipedia Blog] The Wikipedia Blog » Blog Archive » What’s really going on in China.: The Chinese Wikipedia was following the same exponential growth curve as every other Wikipedia edition until the government blocked it a couple years ago (since then it’s been built by Chinese expatriots, who number about 30 million). The site was still accessible via proxy (”climbing the wall”, in chinese), but the official seal of disapproval kind of caused the mainland-China community to evaporate.

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