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Wikimania 2007
Hi Mangwanani,

Wikimania 2007, which is being held in Taipei, Taiwan on August 3-5, is offering opportunities for travel scholarships to Wikimania for active users of Wikimedia projects from the continent of Africa. Although the original scholarship deadline has passed, please, if you are interested, you may still apply at Scholarships. Sincerely yours, Cary Bass 21:08, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Zimbabwe
Hi, I saw your edits to Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe. I look forward to working with you in the future. Perspicacite 20:52, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

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Zimbabwean
Greetings from a fellow Zimbabwean part 19:10, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject zimbabwe
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Zwer
Wow, I had not seen that. Too bad. We can always use more people. Perspicacite 17:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Harnessing Wikipedia
Don't mention it you fully deserve it. I have an idea - Zimbabwe is in trouble and we cannot just watch our screens. I believe Wikipedia has grown to the extent that it can cut across the complexities that exist. Is it feasible to harness the collective power of Wikipedians from all over the world to find a solution? This was the original intention, of people working harmoniously even though separated by huge distances, colour, religion, etc. Part 12:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks! I appreciate all the administrative work you've put into the Zimbabwe WikiProject - in addition to your editing. Perspicacite 15:25, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Byo South
Thanks for your support Mangwanani, Nice job on the infobox, however you put Mayor instead of MP. Thanks for your help! Josephabradshaw (talk • contribs) 22:42, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
I wish I could do more especially during this time Part 10:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Rhodesian and Zimbabwean numismatics
There's some numismatic articles that could be right up your street. Examples of these include Banknotes of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Postal Orders of Rhodesia. Please let me know if that interests you. - (Numismaticman 06:34, 6 September 2007 (UTC))

Hard at work
Many thanks for you continous input. Part 12:20, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Arthur Mutambara
Fys and Africa Festival are revert warring on Arthur Mutambara. I'm not sure who's right/wrong - they disagree on how to present the split within the MDC. Perspicacite 13:40, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

National Anthem of Zimbabwe
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September 2007
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Salisbury and MDC
I concede consensus is against me on the Salisbury issue - I've dropped it. Regarding the MDC's split, there seems to be no end in sight to the endless edit warring between Africa Festival and Fys which has now spread to several pages. How do you think we should proceed here - admins? Perspicacite 19:45, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

WP ZW help
Riana has agreed to assist where possible with Wiki Project Zimbabwe. Please feel free to make requests. Part 12:31, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Edit Warring on MDC
We ave settled our deferences with Fys on the MDC,My problem was that he was removing sourced material,which is against the pillars of Wikipedia.But you should see the development I have made on the MDC article and other Zimbabwean and South African articles in general.Africa Festival —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 16:52, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Gibson Sibanda
I would have said it was a B, but I dont feel strongly about the ratings. Feel free to reevaluate the ones I evaluate. Perspicacite 17:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

History of Zimbabwe
I didn't delete that material, I moved it; to the article on Tsvangiri, where that level of detail seemed more appropriate than in an article on the overall history of Zimbabwe. Noel (talk) 22:55, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Hi Mangwanani, could I ask you to use edit summaries for your edits, even if you're just adding or changing stub notices? Edits like this turn up on a lot of watchlists, and it's always nice to be able to see from the edit summary what happened and whether it's worth taking a look. Thank you! &mdash; mark &#9998; 15:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I replied on my talk page (and would appreciate a response). &mdash; mark &#9998; 07:19, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

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Alphabet
Sorry, I made a mistake putting P before M. Part 21:22, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

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Zimbabwe
Looks good to me. Well done. Perspicacite 08:14, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The article has one fact tag, that's a GA quickfail, you should fix that before it gets failed. Yamanbaiia 13:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Nov '07 Barnstar
Thanks very much for the barnstar :)--AssegaiAli 17:50, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

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Zimbabwe
Hey, I just saw the Zimbabwe-GA failed again. That's too bad. Don't worry though, with a little more work it will be there. I've been doing some work on History of Zimbabwe and the 80s section is looking better but the 90s are still lacking. When you get a chance, please add to it. Regards, Perspicacite 12:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

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Zimbabwe GA
looks like we worked simultaneously on the article. I made pretty much the same changes but you was faster. :) If you still need a source for military manpower.This one looks good -- Stan talk 19:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Mugabe
Hi, Just so you know, I reverted your last edit to Robert Mugabe. You had added a fact template to a bit of text an anonymous user added here. I looked at his/her contributions and he/she does not look like a vandal, but the text is arguably critical of Mugabe and therefore requires a source under WP:BLP. I tried to find a source for this, but was unable to, and thus removed the text. Regards, Jose João 21:14, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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The second Matabele war.
G'day Mangwanani, I have a few issues with the second matabele war page and I am not sure what to do about it. There are a lot of figures bandied about that I have never seen in any other reference. Do you have any info/references on the event that could shed some light on the page's facts? regards joemacnz````

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