Fante Wikimedians Community

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Background

The Fante Wikimedia Community is a Wikimedia mission align Group in Ghana with a mission to enhance the visibility of the Fante language on Wikipedia and ultimately preserve the culture and heritage of the Fante tribe in Ghana. Fante, also known as Fanti, Fantse, or Mfantse, is one of the three principal members of the Akan dialect continuum, along with Asante and Akuapem

Fante is spoken by at least 2 million people in Ghana. It is principally spoken in the central and southern regions of Ghana as well as in settlements in other regions in western Ghana. Notable speakers include Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, and former Ghanaian presidents Kwame Nkrumah and John Atta Mills. Maya Angelou learned Fante as an adult during her stay in Ghana.

The Fante Wikipedia incubator and Fante on translatewiki was revived after the Twi translatewiki project. This was because the event hosted participants who speak Fante and would like to contribute in Fante

Objectives

Preserve the culture and heritage of the Fante tribe in Ghana
Enhance the visibility of Fante language on Wikipedia and other sister projects
Encourage editing on Wikipedia and other sister projects in local languages.
Increasing the vocabulary of modern concepts, materials in Fante
Expanding the scope of nomenclature for medicinal plants, biological and botanical species etc.

Activities

This community plans to hold and support the following activities:

The community will organize meet-ups for its members to exchange ideas and explore ways to support ongoing editing efforts, addressing areas where assistance may be needed.
Movement Strategy Meetings quarterly meetups inviting speakers or other Wikimedians to educate the community on the 2030 movement strategy to help get our community members involved in movement activities.
Edit-a-thons to help new Wikipedians learn editing techniques, to create, translate and improve content in all Wikimedia projects or work on and develop a certain topic which will in return promote the project.
Editing contests the group will be organizing editing contests to encourage existing regular editors to keep editing Wikimedia projects and also encourage non-members/users to join.

Contact Us

You can reach us through fantewikimediansgmail.com
You can also join the discussion on our talk page
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