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Kurów on Bambara Wikipedia
Could you please write a stub http://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w - just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w ? Only 2-5 sentences enough. Please.

PS. Article about Kurów is already on 133 languages. Pietras1988 21:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Note to folks requesting translations
I've received a couple of requests for help with specialized translations for bm.wikipedia.org (above) and ff.wikipedia.org (contributor deleted). In general I'm sympathetic to efforts to contribute to these and other smaller editions of Wikipedia, however my personal priorities are development of more basic content before more specialized content. I have a lot of potential basic topics I would (and hopefully will eventually) contribute articles for on the bm & ff Wikipedias, but even those are waiting for the moment. I could also add specialized content that interests me personally as well, but that would be much later, as I don't see that as priority for development of these Wikipedias either. So, an article on for instance Kurów, Poland, or a Christian sect in China might be nice additions to these Wikipedias (and I encourage you to work on them if you want), but I hope you'll understand if I don't act on these until we have some more descriptions of basic geography, world religions, as well as aspects of history and science etc. --A12n 21:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Scouting in Malawi
Can you please help render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Chichewa? Thanks! Chris 01:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I've passed this question on and will advise if there is an answer. --A12n 19:57, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

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 * I responded already on the talk page. Actually I'm surprised at this, since OSISA is related to organizations already with bonafide articles in WP. What did the bot see that turns its eyes red like that? ;) --A12n 00:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I deleted because it appears to have been copied from here which has a copyright notice on it and, therefore, is not compatible with the GFDL. I don't have any problem with you rewriting the article in your own words if you think you can establish notability etc. If you need a copy of the deleted version moved to your userpace to do this, I will provide it as long as you rewrite the copyvio section asap. Cheers, Sarah 11:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, on second look, the copied section is in quotation marks but it isn't referenced properly. I'm going to move it here User talk:A12n/OSISA. Can you please make sure the quote is referenced properly before moving it back into the mainspace? It would be better if you rewrote and expanded it a bit because nearly the whole article is a quote and I don't think that will pass the new page people. Sorry for the misunderstanding on the copyvio comment above. Sarah 11:50, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the review and saving this to my user page, which facilitated restoring the OSISA page w/ modifications. I confess to being a bit put off by the process - I've made a lot of contributions over the last year but make a well-intentioned mis-step and watch out! Basically this article fills a gap, since it describes a bonafide NGO affiliated with the Open Society Institute of the Soros Foundation and similar to OSIWA. Not sure what the bots have access to but if you consider the related edits I did yesterday, they were intended to place the existing OSIWA and the new (and previously missing) OSISA articles in the network they belonged in. Now users can find all and follow links etc. All the best. --A12n 19:31, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
 * No problems and thanks for fixing up the referencing. The bot picked it up as a copyvio because most of the article (the quote) was the same as text from another site. Anyway, it's looking good now. Cheers, Sarah 00:49, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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The African school of Development Communication
Hi. I'm working on revisions for the Development communication article, and I noticed your interest in the article. I also noticed that you're from Africa, and I'm afraid I'm not very knowledgable about the history of DevCom practice and theory from the African School/Perspective. For now I'm using Manyozo's (2006) retrospective on development communication as a basis for rewriting a more balanced history of the practice. Perhaps you'd like to add to what I come up with later today? (I'm still working on the text.) Also, I was thinking of spinning off the various schools of development communication into their own articles, and I'm afraid my knowledge of the African school will not suffice for me to be able to create a credible article. Thanks. Alternativity (talk) 07:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I've noticed the work you (and some others) have been putting into that article - thanks. Actually I'm not from or located in Africa, though I lived in West Africa for a number of years and my regional focus in international development is Africa. I can't comment authoritatively on African approaches as a school. There are links as you note with use of radio (and recent trends for more local radio stations, and area that is relatively well developed in parts of the continent). Going further back there would be approaches emphasizing top-down delivery of knowledge or edicts, as well as some community development models. More recently participatory methods are the mantra - a productive step generally but sometimes being used to justify ends. I'll see if I can add something later. --A12n (talk) 01:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Fula language
Someone has asked a linguistics related question at Talk:Fula language. You list yourself as ff-3, so I figure you might be able to answer. Picaroon (t) 04:19, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I posted a reply.--A12n (talk) 17:55, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

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 * My head is spinning, that was so fast. This is a bonafide article that took me a few minutes to get the basic references together on. With all due respect the bot acted too fast and the speedy deletion category is totally unwarrented.--A12n (talk) 02:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

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Articles for deletion nomination of Animal and veterinary terms in Karimojong
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Meetup/DC 11
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 * Please see the discussion page for the article in question. TIA.--A12n (talk) 14:32, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

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Translation task force
Are you interested in being involved? I am at Wikimania. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (please reply on my talk page) 20:48, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
 * We are concentrating on 80 high importance heavily viewed medical articles. This project involves first improving and than translating the content in to as many other languages as possible.


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 * Quick wrap - this conversation has moved off this page and onto email. Am trying to assist with contacts for funding and plan to help identify priority African languages for this project.--A12n (talk) 11:45, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Indigenous Languages
Good day, I saw you mentioned your involvement with developing Wikipedias in African languages on Meta and thought that you might be interested by the creation of Wikimedia Indigenous Languages, an international body for the coordination of projects to develop small and endangered languages Wikimedia projects. Thanks, Amqui (talk) 17:36, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. I have added my username and look forward to contributing. As indicated in my line on the project page, I am interested not only in African languages, but also in identifying world regional themes (the challenges faced by African languages, by indigenous languages in the Americas, by "lesser-used languages" in Europe, and by minority languages in Asia are in some ways similar, but in other respects different), and in learning across the world regions to identify or develop "best practices."--A12n (talk) 11:40, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for the heads up, it's appreciated. Actually I was not aware that Pastoralist did not automatically redirect to Pastoralism, which IMO would still be the best solution. Please see the suggestions at Talk:Pastoralist (discussion to ensue there, please.)--A12n (talk) 15:11, 23 December 2012 (UTC)