Welcome to Translatewiki and Edit-athon for Anufo Language Wikimedians Project

Description

What: A lot of people in Chereponi use wikipedia during search for information but are not aware they could be part of the contributors of the free knowledge. This project will enable the Anufo Language Wikimedians to be introduced to wikipedia and its sister projects. It will also create awareness of wikimedia to the whole of the Anufo native speakers dwelling in Chereponi and its suburbs. Participants after being trained, will engage in a writing contest.

When: Translatewiki and Edit-athon for Anufo Language Wikimedians contest will involve translate-a-thon and edit-a-thon. These two individual sub projects will officially hold on 15th May 2025 and end on 15th June 2025.

Who: Everybody can help to collaborate on translating the articles into Anufo Language.

Description of the two Sub-Projects

Translatewiki.net: In the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net, the "most important messages" refer to a set of essential interface messages that need to be translated for a language to be considered usable. This group of messages is called the "MediaWiki core messages" or sometimes the "100 most used messages" because they include the most frequently seen and critical elements of the user interface. These essential interface messages will be localized in Anufo Langauge. The project is expected to localize all the most used/most important messages in the mediawiki.

Edit-a-thon: The testwiki project involves the composing/translating/writing of articles in the incubator to ascertain the existence of the langauge. A lot of articles will be created as a requirment to exit the langague from the incubator to a live wikipedia site. This project is geared towards adding quality edits in the incubator.

List of main activities for the project

Advocacy and awareness creation : Speakers will be invited to speak about wikipedia and its sister projects at Chereponi Community Center
Volunteers will be recruited
Training of Volunteers on Translatewiki.net
Training of vounteers wikimedia incubator
Translate a-thon on Translatewiki.net (100% most used/most important messages will be translated (check completion rate)
Translating of 59 English articles to Anufo in the incubator
Award of Prizes for high contributors

Awards

Translatewiki.net

After reaching about 50% of translation of the most used or important messages. A group of four will collaborate to complete the remaining 50% messages left which presumably are the difficult to translate. The group after completing will receive GHC1000 worth gift vouchers.

Edit-a-thon contest

Prize: Gift vouchers will be offered to the participant with the highest edits (by bytes) with consideration of quality of contribution.

1st 🥇 = GHS 800 Gift Voucher
2nd 🥈 = GHS 500 Gift Voucher
3rd 🥉 = GHS 300 Gift Voucher

Top Female Contributor* = GHC 200 Gift Voucher

Articles

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