[Foundation-l] Fwd: NYTimes.com: African Languages Grow as a Wikipedia Presence

Sun Aug 27 18:24:33 UTC 2006

Hoi,
The article has also been picked up by the International Herald Tribune 
and /.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/27/business/wiki.php
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/27/1757237

It does prove that there is interest for Africa in combination with 
Wikipedia..
Thanks,
    GerardM

Jack wrote:
>>> what the Newyork Times has to say about content in African
>>> language
>>> Wikipedias. Enjoy :)
>>> -- GerardM
>>>       
>
> Link for those who don't want to jump thru NYT's registration hoops:
> <http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060827/BIZ04/608270326/1013>.
>
> "Swahili [...] is the first African-language Wikipedia to have reached
> the 1,000-article mark" is from
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-31/News_and_notes#Milestones>,
> see the correction at
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-07/News_and_notes#Correction>.
>   