User:Sj/Sw

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Project : Swahili Wikipedia
Swahili Wikipedia and and reference works in Swahili.

Proposal
The project : completely free content... and to use the multi-language content (as the material will be both in Swahili and in many other languages) to benefit those learning Swahili around the world.
 * To develop the world's greatest swahili-language reference work, with
 * To find uses for this in schools and education projects across East Africa;
 * To work with university students and language teachers to promote the use of and contribution to this work

The milestones : A list of volunteers, A list of interested students, A list of interested teachers and educational programs A foundation of short articles spanning the world's knowledge*

Volunteers

 * Ndesanjo
 * Jeff (in Toronto)
 * Joseph (in Oz)
 * Makene (in Texas)
 * Sj (in Boston)

Interested students

Interested teachers

Initial content
Long list: List of articles all languages should have; this is around 1000 articles we should start with.
 * The content on those subjects in the English and French and German Wikipedias can provide help for people writing the initial Swahili articles.

Shorter lists:
 * List of important Africans
 * List of Tanzanian politicians
 * List of Kenyan politicians

Other content suggestions are welcome.

Comments
Please add comments below. --Sj