User:Jeanpol~enwiki/Africa

=Against poverty: improving education and communication-skills= On this page I will communicate with young people in Africa in order to create Wikipedia-articles with them.--Jeanpol 05:46, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

The next step
Here the article about Bahr Dahr in the English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahar_Dar
 * Each project-participant should set up an userpage in the Englisch-Wikipedia (the English one is more usefull for our purpose than the German one)
 * Each participant should write an article (or if an article is already wrote, improve it) about his special-knowledge, so for instance Tadele and Melese about Bahr Dahr, Abedje about Lalibela and so on.

For Melese (in German)
Sie können den Artikel über Bahr Daar in der Deutschen Wikipedia anreichern. Er ist nämlich sehr dürftig (="poor"). Hier ist er: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahar_Dar --Jeanpol 08:31, 8. Sep 2006 (CEST)

A mail from Abeje (Lalibela)
"dear professor, (...) i am happy to communicate with you but i would like to introduce my friend in lalibela her name is seble moges she is 28 years old and she like to work for the communities and she is also a secretary, and she has aslo computer able to browse internet and other communcation ways. and she is helpful for me to to work together about your mission and vision b/c it is better to use female inorder to address gender-equity plus to get more knowledge about womens and she is very interested to get new knowlege and career development and so much better to communicate to share idea with me through her b/c she has access to write and browse internet her e-mail address is seblemo2003@yahoo.com. we will e-mail and work togther with you b/c she is my neighboor in lalibela and we can discuss everything share ideas and knowleged easily. i think you support my idea and i hopfully work with you (...). abeje." It is outstanding, isn't it?--Jeanpol 17:34, 8. Sep 2006 (CEST)

I received an answer from Engdawork too
"Dear Prof.Jean-Pol Martin, I thank you very much for giving young "hungry" Ethiopians the possibility to expand their communicatin skills, which is a tremdenous step towards the bright future of the young people here. Here I therefore want to communicate more with you and other participants of this netline. I anyway need some time to sit and think of worthful ideas which centre the desire of us young people. For now thank you very much for the very first link you gave us. Have a wonderful Ethiopian New Year 1999 (= 11 th of September 2006 ). Truely Engdawork.

My answer to Engdawork
Dear Engdawork, Thank you very much for answering so fast. I'm very pleased to read it. Of course, we don't have to precipitate us. Step by step is the right way. My opinion is, that we don't have to communicate about politics (I think, its to dangerous for the African participants) but just about articles that we create (or if already existent, that we improve) in the Wikipedia. That way, the young people (you, Abeje, Tedele, Mesele, Seble and so on) will develop their internet-communication-skills. These skills are very important for the future an for your careers. The more people are skilled, the more they can promote themselves, their land and face the problems in the world. As I said, the first step could be to present yourselve (with short words) on the page from Melese. Than you can chose an Wikipedia-article an write on it. If you don't know how, we show you how it works. So you will meet other skilled people. And skilled people can develop each other. Here the page from Melese: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Melese Very kind regards! Jean-Pol Martin

If you want to write something here
you just have to click on the top "edit this page" or on the side "edit", than write your text and then click "show preview" and "save page".--Jeanpol 06:13, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Articles you can improve
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Lalibela, Addis Ababa

Beyond the Wikipedia-article:
we should focuse our reflection on following topics: poverty, communication, education. Communication and education are the keys to fight against poverty!--Jeanpol 05:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Abeje and Seble wrote the beginning of the article "Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela"
Here: Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela.--Jeanpol 16:46, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The last message from Seble and Abedje
"dear jean-pol, we get the message from you and it is good that as you told us article about lalibela is already exist. so we want hints from you what type of article is better which is much related to Lalibela b/c it enable us to write articles easily. sorry for our being late it is due to the bad connection of the internet and also due we have a lack of accessing internet service which include the cost (per minute 2 birr you may remember when you were in lalibela). However, we have to try our best as much as we able to communicate. keep in touch! seble and abeje" --Jeanpol 15:53, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

And now Melese again
Dear prof.jean-pol Sorry that I couldn’t replay  your  e-mail soon ,the reason is I couldn’t get access to use internet. To browse the web sit of wikipidia it takes at lest one hour to display the main page .so it costs me a lot of money .i tried to get free access to use internet, any way I browse my user page at German wikipidia ., I read all messages you wrote in my user page, thank you very much and i reed messages form all  participations. I am preparing an article about Bahir dar. When ever I get the access to use the internet,  i will write  the article in my user page. I think you know the problem. your’s melese

My answer: Dear Melese, I'm very glad that you are so sustainable and thank you for your committment! Of course I understand the problems and my opinion is, that we have to insist and make pressure on the governements in order to help your country having better internet-access. We stay in touch! Your very sincerely Jean-Pol Martin

More from Melesen
Dear prof.jean-pol Thank you very much for answering so fast I am very pleased to read it. I browse the English wikipedia to day. I read and print out the article about Bahir dar. The article already exist are interesting but there are some thing I want  to edit again .for example, on the picture beside to the article. The first photo  titled “ mural in Bahir dar church “ there is no any article which explains about the name of the church ,the name of the church is “URA KIDANEMEHRET church “ it should be  ‘mural in URA KIDANEMEHRET church. The church is found on the lake tana  at ZEGA  penzula. I have some articles to write, which is not existed on the English wikipedia .org /wiki/Bahir dar. Is it possible to edit the existed one or can I write the article again ? I tried to have a user page on English wikipedia .i inter on the blank my user name  and pass cod  but I couldn’t ,it retrieves a message which say  your user name is not protected. Can you tell me an example how to write protected (safe )user name and pass code ? I am very interesting to participate on the English and german wilipedia ,step by step I will be a successful wikipedian .i belive that this will develop my internet communication skills .it is very important for the future of my career. Befor I wrie the article on my user page  I went to know more about wikipedia and tell for all of my friends. I read fastly and print out some copy text about  wikipedia:toutorial. I wish to read more but I must browse  fast and see things roughly. Best wishes Melese

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