Muddyb's Blog

Hoi! Guys, today is the end of the 2011.. And when I look back in 2010, my last edit for the 2010 was the death of Bobby Farrell (see http://sw.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bobby_Farrell&diff=prev&oldid=559717). And from January 3 of the 2011 – received a message from ChriKo, a Dutch Wikipedian (see http://sw.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Majadiliano_ya_mtumiaji:Muddyb_Blast_Producer&diff=prev&oldid=560783). He was asking about some new words which are needed to be converted to Kiswahili. Later, get myself involved on some PORTALS and made a very minor changes. At the end of January, I’ve created some templates for the TV series, i.e. Kigezo:Infobox television season. The 10th of February, I’ve created the article about Matt Parkman, the character from Heroes series – and created so many articles about the character from the said series.

Since February 10, did not add anything on the SWWP, but replying the message from my fellow admins. I’ve continued to show the tiny involvements on contribute at SWWP until April where I’ve started to write some articles about Enrique Iglesias’s albums. At the end of April, I’ve started to write some articles about ALIAS TV series characters – until May. At the beginning of May-June, managed to create various articles – but many as I used to.

From June 20 to September 11, I’ve started to write so many articles about the counties of Norway! At the middle of September, raised the articles about my home contry at the same time working on the Norwegian counties until November where I’ve started to write the articles about members of parliament in Tanzania.

From December 2011, started to correct some links on the language pages… Actually the articles were created by Baba Tabita and I was using the AWB to do some repititive job since it is easy to correct by using it. From December 15, 2011, I’ve decided to revive my precious articles about hip hop music and its culture, respectively. From it, managed to create the portals and other related articles about hip hop. Hip hop articles was my last hope for contributing on the Swahili Wikipedia for the year of 2011!!!

I WISH everybody happy new year 2012 and hopefully gonna make it again during the 2012 period to 2013!!!

With warmest regards from the precious friend,

Muddyb!

Hoi! Guys, this is what’s happening on the Swahili Wikipedia: Oliver or let me call him the way people of EA used to call him to – Baba Tabita, he’s very busy in his field. When I say in his field, I mean on the languages articles – cause the guy is a liguistic by professional (I ain’t got no jokes on him, buddies). Thus far, he did a truly remarkable job compare to his disappearance for quite some-time now! He was not contributing more often, but I think he beats us all within a few days. This is awesome. He’s writing about the languages from various corners of Africa. Especially the Bantu ones. On the other hand, there is a ME whose actually working on the hip hop articles. I’ve created the PORTAL of hip hop on the  SWWP and creating the  related articles on the past few days!

Oliver, you have my bless, mate. Keep it up and improve the Swahili Wikipedia to reach up to the good mark!

With best regards,

Muddyb

Howdy! It’s been a while since my last post. It does not look okay to me or to among of you guys to see me away like this. Maybe need to change the blogging style, i.e updating the happening stories quite often? The answer is yes, however, busy in real life kept me away from blogging and adding some contents on the Swahili Wikipedia and other Wikimedia’s sisters projects as well. Now what? Oliver really had me encouraged about adding some stub articles, at least to push my home Wikipedia to another level (although not good enough compare to the Afrikaans one), but it;s my home Wikipedia it needs my efforts to make it among of the biggest Wikipedia in the world! Thanks Oliver, I’m back with some stub articles about Wabunge (parliamentarins) of the United Republic of Tanzania. It’s awesome working about my country!

Sincerely,

Muddyb

Howdy! It’s been a while since my last post. Today, I had a few chat with one of the heavily involved user on the BetaWiki (translatewiki) this evening. I was just asking him for some friendly advise regarding my disappearence on the Wiki’s projects nowadays. What he told me was a trully remarkable. It’s not so bad if I’m sharing it with you guys.

It was like this:

[2:47:04 PM] Muddyb Blast…: Hoi, mate.. I got a single question:

I do not know why I lost an interest on Wiki’s projects nowadays… Since you’re an expert on this projects, there is anything you can tell me (perhaps) could make me back regularly on the Wikipedia? Just a piece of friendly advice.

“”Muddyb Blast…: Oh, if you have a time, please!

“Siebrand Mazeland: hey :0
Siebrand Mazeland: great to hear from you.
Siebrand Mazeland: I think the great thing about Wikimedia projects in general is that there is so much to be done, and that there are so many areas of interest to explore, you literally will never be done!

Siebrand Mazeland: So…

Siebrand Mazeland: What are your interests in general?

Siebrand Mazeland: Content creation, content organising, administration, community management, development, translation, localisation, …?

Siebrand Mazeland: Then there are the Wikimedia chapters; the country organisations, where you can work together with people in real life.
Siebrand Mazeland: You can organise meetings, conferences, run programs, be a Wikimedia Ambassador, be on the board of a chapter, ..

“”Muddyb Blast…:  I think these could ring the bell on my mind:

Translation & Localisation

“”"”Siebrand Mazeland: ok.

Siebrand Mazeland: for translation there are 3 wiki communities that come to mind:

Siebrand Mazeland: * meta.wikimedia.org where you can translate things that are important for the communication of the communities (usually Wikimedia Foundation stuff)

Siebrand Mazeland: * commons.wikimedia.org: two things. Translate documentation and certain templates so that it is available in your languages. Second: there are multi-language descriptions. If you like looking at images, just find a category, and add new descriptions about images or translate existing descriptions.

Siebrand Mazeland: * translatewiki.net: we have a bunch of documentation that needs to be translated into as many languages as possible, including outr main page.

Siebrand Mazeland: Links:

:::Siebrand Mazeland: * https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-0-all (all transltewiki translatable pages)

Siebrand Mazeland: * https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&task=untranslated&group=wiki-twn-mainpage (translatewiki main page)
[2:56:08 PM | Edited 2:56:23 PM] Siebrand Mazeland: * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation (this also covers content translation, of course, which I forgot to mention)

Siebrand Mazeland: * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Localization (Commons localisation and translation)

:::Siebrand Mazeland: And then, *drumroll*!

Siebrand Mazeland: HTTPS://TRANSLATEWIKI.NET
Siebrand Mazeland:

Siebrand Mazeland: Enough translation work there to keep you busy for months full time.

“Muddyb Blast…: You’re so nice, Brand! Will have to choose some links and try my best on them.. Especially Wikimedia Commons and TranslateWiki! Enough said and thanks for a wonderful advice!

Siebrand Mazeland: We support 20 different free and open source products now, so you should be able to find a project that you can be enthousiastic about making available in your language. An overview is at https://translatewiki.net (the bottom part of our main page)

Siebrand Mazeland: No problem.

Siebrand Mazeland: My last request to you. If I recall correctly, you are a blogger, too.

::::::Muddyb Blast…: hahaha

Siebrand Mazeland: Maybe you can rewrite this chat into a blog post?

Muddyb Blast…: Yes, of-course!

Siebrand Mazeland: That would be great.
[3:00:46 PM] Muddyb Blast…: Right away!
[3:00:58 PM] Siebrand Mazeland: I just dumped my brain here, and it’s wonderful if you can make it a comprehensive “Opportunities for translation and localisation in the Wikimedia landscape” post.

That is how the story ends. The guy is prodigy, believe me. I did not think if he would provide a good advise like that one… Now I have to stay put and see what I can do on the projects which I’ve committed myself as will give contributions.

Sincerely,

Muddyb

Howdy! Long time nor see you guys, but I’m back with the very less energy not as you guys expected to! Here’s the thing, if you can remember, back in 2009 I was creating the articles about the cities, provinces, and districts with various things from Turkey. And all of that happened because I promised somebody from Turkey will do that for him because we are friends. This time Norway is taking the chance (I did the same, promising) and it has to be done at any cost, i.e I have to fulfil what I promised to the guy. By far, I’ve managed to create several counties such as Akershus, Aust-Agder, Buskerud, Finnmark, Hedmark, Hordaland, Møre og Romsdal, Nordland, Nord-Trøndelag, and Oppland. Once I finish all the counties, will start with the municipalities and I’m sure gonna finish all of them just like I did on the Turkish cities and districts.

Hi guys! It’s been a while now since my last post, isn’t! Okay, look what I have here, now I have seen plenty of contributions which made by someone (I don’t know who’s he/she “‎Healthspeaks”). But so far he/she’s been doing great on health articles ’cause I believe is one of the people whom we have been expecting to see their contributions on Health Speaks Project which sponsored by Google. On the other hand, I see somebody who called himself “Jhendin”. He is an American, he’s always giving us some stub articles which we need the most from Wazungu like him who do not understand the Swahili very well, but their doing an outstanding job.

So now, go here http://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maalum:KurasaMpya and see for yourself!

Oops! I almost forgot, the Kenyan chapter looks very promising now!!!

Yours,

Muddyb

Hi, guys! Guys, we lost one of the major contributor on the Swahili Wikipedia. When I say “we lost”, I didn’t mean is dead, no. He’s very much alive, but he is no longer active on the Swahili Wikipedia! There was a problem of verbal between swwp’s admin (no need to mention his name) and the one who decided to leave the project (CGN2010). CGN2010 was a user who did an outstanding job on the Swahili Wikipedia. Personally, I was reckoning him as one of the major contributor of all time. First of all, he was not Swahili and he’s understanding on Swahili language are not much better, but what he was doing is more than to understand the language are. He had only basic level of the Swahili – and he did a lot of things such as template cleaning, categorization, small repetitive corrections, and many, many things on the Swahili Wikipedia. If anyone can help to convince him to reconsider the decision he made, please go to http://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maalum:BaruapepeyaMtumiaji/CGN2010 where you might be able to send the mail to him!

Muddyb

Hi to everyone! Guess what I came-up with? I’ve been surprised by two people who were doing some translation on the translatewiki. One is the most heavily involved user in the past few years  (Siebrand). And the other one is Ikiwaner from Wikimedia Commons (German Wikipedian Based in Tanzania). The two of them did considerable job on the Swahili translation. Especially Siebrand (I hate to admit it), but, Siebrand really helping the Swahili. You know what, their using the power of translation memory to translate on the other messages which are the same. See it here: http://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki:Achievements-viewless/sw – the same message which have already translated on the MediaWiki extension kwa Kiswahili. So the translatewiki memorized all translations and later do the translation by itself once you need to translate the message which have already translated on the other projects like Wikia, Youtube, MediaWiki, etc. It gives you an options to translate by second time or you can use the memorized translation (especially for the same messages). So, they decided to use the memorized translation to translate on the projects which still yet to be translated. Thanks to Siebrand and your colleague for doing so. It is my optimism to see you keep doing so. Cheers.

Muddyb,

Thanks

Hi guys!!! These guys (CGN2010 & Mr. Accountable) are about to burst my head. They’ve done unimaginable work on the last 2/3 days a go. You know what, they’ve created (possibly 1,000+) stub articles in two days, can you imagine? Things went pretty fast – I didn’t even notice what really happened right there! While was trying to find out how did they manage to create all those stubs, I came to know that they’ve been using an Auto Wiki Browser to create all those articles. Well, then, we are so lucky to have these guys who are doing impressively work to make sure the Swahili Wikipedia has a lot of contents. Let me show you the different between five/ten days ago via images:

The first shows the difference in 5 days only:

This image shows the difference on 5 days.

The number two image shows the difference in ten days:

This really awesome!

I don’t think if I have anything else to say. That’s the least I can show you and this is how we do on our home Wikipedia! Thanks to the guys who has done this impressive work. Best regards..

Muddyb

Howdy! Things goes as usually, we’ve made too many things on the last 9/10 days a go. What’s surprised me this time, the guy he himself asked for graphic – it means that he wants to know what happened on the Swahili Wikipedia… I can’t refuse his request and this is the graphic are:

Have something to say? Do the comment please…

Yours,

Muddyb