INTERNET entrepreneur and Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has set his sights on an ambitious extension of the online encyclopedia.
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QUOTE(Yahoo! News @ Sun 22nd April 2007, 3:00pm) 
INTERNET entrepreneur and Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has set his sights on an ambitious extension of the online encyclopedia.
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"In Afrikaans, there are 7000 articles, but in true African languages there is almost nothing." True African languages? How come Afrikaans isnt a real African language. This sounds like the worst kind of political correctness.
QUOTE(SqueakBox @ Sun 22nd April 2007, 12:37pm)
"In Afrikaans, there are 7000 articles, but in true African languages there is almost nothing." True African languages? How come Afrikaans isnt a real African language. This sounds like the worst kind of political correctness.
Perhaps by "true" they meant "completely indigenous," and they just figured most of their readers wouldn't know the meaning of the term "indigenous."
Afrikaans is a simplified archaic version of Dutch. To the Dutch it sounds like antiquated baby-talk and consistently produces hysterics when spoken in the Netherlands.
There are some large scale languages like Swahili in East Africa but most languages are restricted to one ethnic group. The true common languages of Africa are English and French.
If Wikipedia is not to be trusted in English, god knows what an inaccurate, biased monstrosity will cause in Africa. I suspect it will not be pleasant.
There are some large scale languages like Swahili in East Africa but most languages are restricted to one ethnic group. The true common languages of Africa are English and French.
If Wikipedia is not to be trusted in English, god knows what an inaccurate, biased monstrosity will cause in Africa. I suspect it will not be pleasant.
QUOTE(JohnA @ Sun 22nd April 2007, 10:10pm)
There are some large scale languages like Swahili in East Africa but most languages are restricted to one ethnic group.
There are dozens of languages in Nigeria alone, some spoken by only a few hundred people. How many Wikis do they want in Africa?
Wikipedia guru opens new era
NEWS.com.au, Australia - 16 minutes ago
By Anna Vlach. INTERNET entrepreneur and Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has set his sights on an ambitious extension of the online encyclopedia. ...
INTERNET entrepreneur and Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has set his sights on an ambitious extension of the online encyclopedia. Arriving in Adelaide from South Africa yesterday for a seminar at the Hilton hotel today, Mr Wales said a new company, Wikia , featured magazine-style sites and "everything else in the library", from humour to political advocacy.
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