Before, you are wise, after, you are wise. In between, you are otherwise.
There’s a current proposal to close the Xhosa Wikipedia for lack of activity, so I thought it’d be a good time to see the progress of the African and South African language Wikipedias.
Heading the list of African-language Wikipedias by article count, Malagasy is still racing ahead in creating new articles, mainly thanks to articles automatically created by bots…
The 2013 World Press Freedom Index came out recently, and sadly, South Africa has slid alarmingly since I last blogged about it in 2007, and even more so when compared with its peak rating in 2003…
Time to take another look at the progress of African and African language Wikipedia projects.
African Language Wikipedias
Language
1/1/2007
11/2/2011
13/4/2012
16/11/2012
Malagasy
3806
36767
38753
Yoruba
517
12174
29894
30158
Afrikaans
6149
17002
22115
24821
Swahili
2980
21244
23481
24519
Amharic
742
6738
11572
11806
Egyptian Arabic
8433
I’m finally getting around to trying a course with Coursera.
Coursera was founded by a couple of Computer Science professors from Stanford University, and its mission is to make “the best education in the world freely available to any person who seeks it”.
It launched in April this year, and has already had over a million students…
Before Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds were the Birthday Party. Here’s Fears of Gun…
It’s been about five months since I last looked in detail at the South African language Wikipedias, and there’s been significant progress in three of the languages…
Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me. I remember meeting a teenage Alaskan editing on the Malagasy Wikipedia…
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