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 <description>&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.yt/&quot;&gt;wiki.yt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is my new vehicle for all my MediaWiki related activity.

See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.yt/en/User:Guaka&quot;&gt;more about my wiki activity&lt;/a&gt; there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;links&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-0&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/bambara&quot;&gt;bambara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/dict&quot;&gt;dict&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/mediawiki&quot;&gt;mediawiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/newyorktimes&quot;&gt;new_york_times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-4&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/trento&quot;&gt;trento&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-5&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wiki&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-6&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wikibooks&quot;&gt;wikibooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-7&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wikipedia&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-8&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wikitravel&quot;&gt;wikitravel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-9&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wiktionary&quot;&gt;wiktionary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-10&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wolof&quot;&gt;wolof&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Guaka</dc:creator>
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 <title>IDLELO3, Dakar, March 18-20, Wikipedia in West African languages</title>
 <link>http://guaka.org/2008/01/16/idlelo3-dakar-march-18-20-wikipedia-in-west-african-languages</link>
 <description>&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;tag: &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;links&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-0&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/dakar&quot;&gt;dakar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/idlelo&quot;&gt;idlelo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/kunnafoni&quot;&gt;kunnafoni&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/senegal&quot;&gt;senegal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-4&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wikipedia&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-5&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wolof&quot;&gt;wolof&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-6&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/africa&quot;&gt;Africa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;Today I received that my abstract that I submitted to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://floss.meraka.org.za/ocs/index.php/idlelo3/idlelo3&quot;&gt;IDLELO3&lt;/a&gt; conference that will be held in Dakar from the 18th till the 20th of March was accepted.  Here it is:
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia in West African languages&lt;/strong&gt;

Wikipedia is a project for the creation of free encyclopedias in many
languages. The project has a huge potential for the education and
development of West Africa, where there are hardly any books or
educational material available in native languages.

The Wikipedias in Bambara, Peul and Wolof were started in the
beginning of 2005.

The interface of the Bambara and Peul Wikipedias were partly
translated and some articles had been written as part of a side
project of a Geekcorps Mali volunteer, in which people were given one
dollar for every article placed on-line (with total expenses less than
100$). After 2005 there was only sparse activity, and in December 2007
there are respectively 142 and 28 articles.

Not much happened to the version in Wolof until 2006, when many tiny
articles with no real content were added to the Wolof Wikipedia. Then
in April 2007 a Senegalese student living in Italy starting adding a
lot of text in Wolof, and in November the Wikipedia reached 500
articles.

We think combining an efficient distribution (e.g. through
&lt;a href=&quot;http://moulinwiki.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Moulinwiki.org&lt;/a&gt;) and content in native languages (besides Arabic,
French, English or Portuguese) will offer great educational
opportunities to Africans. Our hope is that NGOs, universities,
Africans (both in and outside Africa) will be inspired to join in
these efforts.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
I hope that I can meet up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Ibou&quot;&gt;Ibou&lt;/a&gt;, whom I´ve &lt;a href=&quot;http://guaka.org/2007/08/25/de-lespoir-pour-lafrique/&quot;&gt;met before in Italy&lt;/a&gt; and with Renaud a former &lt;a href=&quot;http://mali.geekcorps.org&quot;&gt;Geek&lt;/a&gt; who created Moulinwiki and did a lot more awesome work in Mali. Recently he set up an official French non-profit organization: &lt;a href=&quot;http://kunnafoni.org/&quot;&gt;Kunnafoni&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Guaka</dc:creator>
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 <title>De l&#039;espoir pour l&#039;Afrique</title>
 <link>http://guaka.org/2007/08/25/de-lespoir-pour-lafrique</link>
 <description>&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;tag: &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;links&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-0&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/espoir&quot;&gt;espoir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/interface&quot;&gt;interface&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/languematernelle&quot;&gt;langue_maternelle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/senegal&quot;&gt;senegal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-4&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/traduire&quot;&gt;traduire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-5&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wikipedia&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-6&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wolof&quot;&gt;wolof&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-7&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/francais&quot;&gt;francais&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-8&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/afrika&quot;&gt;Afrika&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comme j&#039;avait écrit, j&#039;ai rencontré Ibou hier. Je savais pas quoi expecter, mais c&#039;était inspirant, dès les premiers instants. Ibou est un jeune sénégalais, qui fait ses études d&#039;électrotechnique en Italie. Il parle le wolof mieux que tout autre langue, mais jusqu&#039;il y a &lt;a href=&quot;http://assurance6.fr/assurance-automobile-pour-6-mois&quot;&gt;6 mois&lt;/a&gt; il savait pas l&#039;écrire. Sur l&#039;internet il avait trouvé plus d&#039;information sur sa langue maternelle, qui est parlée par 90% de la population du Sénégal - contrairement au français, parlé par environ 10%. Malgré ces statistiques on y apprend à lire et écrire.. en français! Ibou pense que là il y a plein de problèmes. C&#039;est difficile, comprendre les mathématiques, l&#039;histoire, l&#039;économie, tout ce qui est considéré comme &quot;la base&quot; dans les pays occidentale, dans une langue que tu parles pas. Ibou a 23 ans, et il veux changer cette situation!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Wikipedia en Wolof&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Il connaissait Wikipedia depuis 2006, mais ça fait juste quelques mois qu&#039;il connait &lt;a href=&quot;http://wo.wikipedia.org&quot; title=&quot;Wolof Wikipedia&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;la version en wolof&lt;/a&gt;. Le 16 juin 2007, le début de ses vacances, il s&#039;est inscrit et il commençait à bosser, prèsque chaque journée il ajouté de l&#039;information qui, jusque là, n&#039;était pas encore disponible en wolof. Il pensait que c&#039;était indispensable de traduire l&#039;interface, et maintenant, même pas 3 mois plus-tard il en a traduit presque tout.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;L&#039;hégémonie de l&#039;anglais&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Il me rappelait de l&#039;hégémonie de l&#039;anglais, et voilà pourquoi que &lt;a href=&quot;https://sansargent.fr/ecrire-pour-web&quot;&gt;j&#039;écris&lt;/a&gt; ceci en français. Avant-hier j&#039;avais commencé une page des questions, qui était rapidement completé par Don et Steve du &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.yahoo.com%2Fgroup%2Fafrophonewikis%2F&amp;amp;ei=HADQRsjhJ4XM0gSetOS4CQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGdfq5Px937tbARM2WOKJXJMC2Uvw&amp;amp;sig2=-wWvobhPqTHennl14HOgDQ&quot; title=&quot;afrophonewikis&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;mailing list pour les wikis en langue africaines&lt;/a&gt;, et Renaud de &lt;a href=&quot;http://moulinwiki.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;MoulinWiki&lt;/a&gt;. J&#039;ai enrégistré plein de vidéo, et je suis sûr que mon amie en pourra faire un super vidéo avec de sous-titres en anglais - pour inspirer les parleurs des langues africaines à suivre ce chémin d&#039;espoir comme l&#039;a fait Ibou.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;P.S. Je vais mettre les vidéos bruts  quelque part en ligne. &lt;a href=&quot;/contact&quot;&gt;Contactez-moi&lt;/a&gt; si vous voulez m&#039;aidez  avec  les sous-titres en anglais.&lt;/p&gt;
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Guaka</dc:creator>
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 <title>I&#039;ll be off to meet Ibou</title>
 <link>http://guaka.org/2007/08/24/ill-be-off-to-meet-ibou</link>
 <description>&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-2 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;h3 class=&quot;field-label&quot;&gt;tag: &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul class=&quot;links&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-0&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/callum&quot;&gt;callum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/disclose&quot;&gt;disclose&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/dogfood&quot;&gt;dogfood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/secrecy&quot;&gt;secrecy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-4&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/vegetarian&quot;&gt;vegetarian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-5&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/videointerview&quot;&gt;video_interview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-6&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wikipedia&quot;&gt;wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-7&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/wolof&quot;&gt;wolof&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;taxonomy-term-reference-8&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/tag/africa&quot;&gt;Africa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-items&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-item even&quot;&gt;Thanks to Callum I have a blog again that I want to use. Now I don&#039;t have any excuses any more not to blog every week. Ah well, that is unlikely to happen. Today I&#039;m glad to read that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/2007/08/23/eating-your-own-dogfood/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;some people enjoy their own dogfood&lt;/a&gt;. But I&#039;m even happier that I&#039;m vegetarian. There are also some events that I will not publicly disclose yet. Oh la la, all this secrecy. Maybe I could also be a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Leadership&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Leader&lt;/a&gt;, one day.

But not today. I&#039;ll be off to meet and do a video interview with &lt;a href=&quot;http://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Ibou&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ibou&lt;/a&gt;, who has been doing amazing work on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wo.wikipedia.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wolof Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. So hopefully I will also have a video blog to show you next week.
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Guaka</dc:creator>
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