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iCommons is collecting South Africa's heritage
| The South African Police long rifle shooting team in 1950. , by Piet Dreyer |
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A bunch of incredible volunteers and the iCommons staff are at a shopping mall
today recording stories and scanning images for Wikimedia Commons in
celebration of Heritage Day weekend in South Africa.
We've had some incredible stories that volunteer translators are translating into
Sotho, Xhosa, Afrikaans and Zulu - check it out as it happens on our Jaiku channel. Also check out our contributions so far on the iHeritage page for WikiMedia Commons.
Thank you so much to everyone who has helped out
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culture wikipedia wikimediacommons iheritage heritage history south africa
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A key change at iCommons
If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:
Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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been this close to the world before ( thank you, iCommons.)
Joel Bower
jtbower1850 (United States) · 27/9/2007 08:05
your call: is this comment useful?