PanAfrican Localisation Resource Wiki

Enhancing capacities for ICT in Arabic and African languages

This is a wiki with resource information for localisation in African languages, including Arabic. This information is mostly classified in several major categories under "L10n Profiles."

It also has information on two other parts of the PanAfrican Localisation project, PanAfrican localisation workshops and a survey document. And the wiki also includes other sections ("wikigroups").

PanAfrican Localisation Project

The PanAfrican Localisation (PAL or PanAfriL10n) project was financed by IDRC and facilitated by Kabissa for a period of 3 years (4/2005 - 3/2008). It has been succeeded by the African Network for Localisation (ANLoc) project, also funded by IDRC.

PAL had 3 parts:

1. the background paper;
2. workshops, including
   1. an initial workshop of experts in localization from around the continent in Casablanca, Morocco on 13-15 June 2005, and
   2. a final workshop to consider the sustainability of the project, in Tshwane/Pretoria, South Africa on 5-7 November 2007
3. a web-based resource site that is intended to provide
   1. information necessary to software localisers, content developers, and ICT decisionmakers in Africa
   2. lists for communication among localisers continentwide,
   3. other interactive pages.

The wiki part of the web-based resource has been migrated to the ANLoc site, but is still accessible from the PanAfriL10n.org URL.

Wiki structure

There are several parts to the wiki. The HomePages and descriptions follow:

• Main.HomePage which is the entrypoint to the wiki (en français : Main.Accueil)
• PanAfrLoc.HomePage where you are now, and which is really the main or biggest part of the wiki
• Wikigroups, initially for country-level localization communities
  • Communities.HomePage
  • Communautés.Accueil
• YearInReview.HomePage for annual review articles
• Sections on workshops
  • Casablanca.HomePage, June 2005
  • ApoTeket, August 2005
  • Marrakech.HomePage, February 2007
  • Tshwane.HomePage, November 2007

The structure of PmWiki also involves other parts generated during the installation and initial entry of info. These have general information on the wiki software and are accessible via: PmWiki.PmWiki