Global Voices Online

Proposal to close Hausa Wikipedia

Monday, July 28th, 2008 @ 06:48 UTC

by Elia Varela Serra

Countries:: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria
Topics:: Education, Internet & Telecoms, Language
Languages:: English

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Proposta de fechamento da Wikipedia em língua Haúça...

The blog Hausa Online reports that a few days ago a proposal had been made in Wikipedia's discussion pages to delete the Wikipedia in Hausa language, an African Chadic language spoken by more than 24 million people. This comes a few months after the blog Beyond Niamey expressed his concern over another closure proposal, the one to close the Wikipedia in Xhosa.

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