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March 2010

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Yeah, sorry for that. I've already posted my reasons for it not to be deleted on the talk page. In fact, i also wanted to attach images but it's only restricted to confirmed users. --Abbasjnr (talk) 07:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

My friend, I didn't notice you before. You're an African, and so we needs your help at there on the Swahili Wikipedia. Here, they do have a lot of pages compare to the Swahili ones - thus don't whish to see such an artilces are provided right here. Insted of puting it here, you would brought it to the Swahili Wikipedia. LAKINI hasa tatizo ni lipi? References, article sorting, paragraphy, etc were provided! Lakini bado shida tu. It's better to come back to the Swahili Wikipedia and make us have a large contents. Yours,--_{Mwanaharakati}^(Longa) 10:22, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Drumbeat, et al

I'm sorry to hear you won't be coming! Hopefully there will be lots of related festivities online.

How is school coming this year? Have you been back to Mombasa recently? I still have fond memories of using Africa Online services there when it was still almost a startup... –SJ+ 16:08, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Kenya Airways photo request

Hi! Please see sw:Majadiliano_ya_mtumiaji:Abbasjnr#Photo_request WhisperToMe (talk) 23:13, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

a wave and greetz from uk

greets from fb ^;) renewing wp editing .... hit me up about WP topics/projects if u wanna // t.c. luke (talk) 06:49, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Your Diligence and handwork is admired...you deserve this Limoke oscar (talk) 14:42, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Be prepared...

I think that List of Palestinian prisoners exchanged for Gilad Shalit is an important article, the kind of article that Wikipedia should be proud to keep and develop until every last entry is understood. But there are people who badly misuse Wikipedia policies and take immense pleasure in ensuring that Wikipedia remains much less than it was meant to be. I have seen them attack articles like this in the past, often successfully. (if and when they come, you'll recognize some names from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthony Bologna) Back up your work often. You might consider whether avoiding the burden of collaboration, and creating a perhaps valuable copyrighted property on Google Knol or Associated Content, is a more satisfying use of your time. Wnt (talk) 16:06, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for the barnstar Abbas. Very much appreciated, and I hope you're doing well. :) Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 19:44, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Your contribution to make the Berlin Trip of the Wikimedia Kenya Reps in 2012 was outstanding. Stephenwanjau (talk) 10:33, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Kenyan Wikipedian Stories

Hi!

My name is Victor Grigas and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community from around the world. Stories are critical to inform and inspire the general public to support the Wikipedia movement by donating their money or to become volunteers themselves.

After seeing this inspiring story about Kenya's very own Gabriel Nderitu -

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/26/kenyan-man-builds-airplane-in-yard-based-mostly-on-wikipedia-entries/

and hearing about the 'Project for Kenyan Schools', I thought that it might be fruitful to plan a trip to Kenya to interview Kenyan Wikipedians face-to-face.

I would need to confirm that I have at least 15 people to speak with who may have interesting stories about Wikipedia to make the trip worth the money. If needed, I could hire a translator. My understanding is that iHub in Nairobi hosts Wiki-meetups once a month. It may be feasible to attend a meetup there and interview people individually after that?

Please let me know what you think, I would very much like the opportunity to represent Wikimedia Kenya in the fundraiser this year.

I am sending this message to everyone I can reach at Wikimedia Kenya. Please let me know if there is a more formalized process to reach people.

Thank you for your time,

Victor Grigas

user:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Victor Grigas (talk) 20:52, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

First Swahili article is here

[1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:23, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Can you take a look at this article here? Could use some work. http://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafua_ya_kawaida Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:53, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

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Medical Translation Newsletter Aug./Sept. 2014

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
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Feature – Ebola articles

Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion

During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!

Just some of our over 60 translations:

• Xhosa
• Northern Sotho
• Zulu
• Tsonga
• Venda
• Hausa
• Igbo
• Yoruba
• Kinyarwanda
• Swahili
• Tigrinya

New roles and guides!

At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!

New sign up page!

We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!

Style guides for translations

Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.

Some more stats

• In July, 18 full article translations went live (WP:RTT), and an additional 6 simplified versions went live (WP:RTTS)!
• We have a number of new lead integrators into Dutch, Polish, Arabic and Bulgarian, with more to come in smaller languages! (Find them here old sign up page)
• We were mentioned in a Global Voices Online report by Subhashish Panigrahi at Doctors and translators are working together to bridge Wikipedia's medical language gap
• New medical professionals have started, dedicated to working in Odiya and Kinyarwanda!

Further reading

• Translators Without Borders
• Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign

-- CFCF 🍌 (email) 13:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Scandal

First of all, you don't have to be rude. And second of all, it's practically word-for-word from the press release. --Njorent (talk) 19:20, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

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