Hi, I'm an editor on the Zulu Wikipedia, and there are a few terms that need effective translation and explanation from English. I'll mention a few:

* operating system
* Linux
* Ubuntu (the distribution) (I wrote it rather poorly)
* web browser
* computer program
* hardware
* software
* CPU
* Internet
* network
* data
* memory
* hard drive
* monitor
* mouse
* router
* wi-fi

Thanks.

being a first time visitor to the above mentioned URL it really breaks my heart seeing how bad my language has been written on your site, i have seen thousands of mistakes and it makes me wonder how much of editing and consutation you guys went through before publishing.

I'm sorry but it does not go down well seeing such things, i suggest you consult edit and republish that Zulu site.

Sibusiso.

Um, its a wiki. So anybody, including yourself, can edit it or (if you're registered) create a new article in the wiki. You know the language better than I do (I'm supposing), so why don't you edit the Ubuntu article, or at least help with it?

Also, The only reason why I wrote anything at all on there was because the primarily edit was in English rather than isiZulu, so of course very few people on the wiki would know any conversational isiZulu to write a translation of the article with. I used a poorly-made mash of words that I found on the isiZulu dictionary, at least for words that could be slightly translated into isiZulu.

At the moment, there are only over 140 articles on there, in comparison to larger Wikipedias like the Swahili, Yoruba and Kikongo ones. The larger wikis have a larger number of native speakers than the Zulu or the Xhosa one, which is about to close because of the dearth of articles and participation.

I'm only hoping that others on this forum will see this post and help with the Zulu Wikipedia. It might similarly close due to lack of participation from knowledgeable editors and Zulu articles.

Your apology is accepted.

Ngizongena ngibone ukuthi ngingephonsi yini esivivaneni, ngethembe ukuthi abanye ozakwethu nabo bazongena nabo balekelele kanjalo kodwa okhokha ndoda akusetshenzwa mahhala.