{"id":25,"date":"2007-11-11T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=25"},"modified":"2007-11-11T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T13:03:25","slug":"afrikaans-wikipedia-meetup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Afrikaans Wikipedia meetup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The iCommons<\/a> offices today played host to an Afrikaans Wikipedia<\/a> meetup, as part of Wikipedia Week. Attending were international guests Jimmy Wales<\/a>, Ndesanjo Macha<\/a> and Frank Schulenburg<\/a>, as well as a number of Afrikaans Wikipedians and Afrikaans press.<\/p>\n

Laurens<\/a>, one of the prime contributers to the Afrikaans Wikipedia, gave a short presentation, followed by an informal discussion.<\/p>\n

It was useful to have Ndesanjo, from the Swahili Wikipedia<\/a> (which is a similar size to Afrikaans), and Frank, from the German Wikipedia<\/a>, as well as local Wikipedians present, as there were interesting overlaps and exchanges of ideas between the different language communities.<\/p>\n

Hopefully we’ll see a flurry of media attention on the Afrikaans Wikipedia, now that the Afrikaans press is starting to get involved.<\/p>\n

Setting up a local Wikimedia Foundation<\/a> chapter was also discussed, and with the momentum built from the Wikimania bid<\/a> and the interest around Wikipedia week this is looking increasingly likely.<\/p>\n

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