Talk:Wp/aa/Archive 1

What kind of wiki is this? -- Dungodung talk 12:32, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm very curius about that, too. Err. I just checked with en:ISO 639, and it says aa is the language code for en:Afar language, a language which has 1.5 million speakers, with a literacy rate of between 1 and 3 percent. So the front page may actually have been written by an Afar speaker that can't write (though I doubt that)… Jon Harald Søby 14:26, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

They do not deserve their own Wikipedia.--Afar god 23:16, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? -- Dungodung talk 17:28, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Only 1 to 3 % of them are literate.

That means 15,000 to 45,000 people, and in time literacy may grow, this 'pedia my encourage it.. Also others may wish to learn Afar. Rich Farmbrough 11:17, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I sincerely doubt that there are 15,000 people who write Afar. It is only a spoken language. This wikipedia will never exist as anything but a joke. 70.105.39.166 17:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The main page was lost in the upgrade to MW 1.5 and nobody told a developer about it. I recovered it just now. -- Tim Starling 11:08, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have you a map of the internet connexions from Africa ? And on Wikipedia ? Hum, i have a little connexion with DSL (164 kbps down 92 up), and a wikipedia homepage makes averagely 5 to 10 seconds to load... I think Africans have not DSL - or that's a minority -, so... Kwak (discussion) 83.152.97.31 21:39, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You should have spoken up against it on m:Requests for new languages. I don't think they get created without approval. At this point, it's been created—no need to whine, just find a native speaker to contribute! Lé C'valyi d'Jade