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Malagasy culture/history on Malagasy Wikipedia Unlike English, French or Chinese, Malagasy is practically unused as a medium of international communication. And those foreigners who have a good command of Malagasy…

Long ago I became interested in natural language processing. From 2010 until 2014 I had been actively developing various programs to increase content coverage of the Malagasy Wiktionary. The result…

In the 21st century, people type. They type a lot. Office workers and the Jane Doe’s and John Doe’s from all over the world, speaking various languages, type on electronic…

Since 2010, I’ve been contributing to the Malagasy Wiktionary. It has become a habit now: every month, every week, every day, and almost every morning and evening, I turn on…

Good news, if it can be said, for my fellow Malagasy citizens: Since 6th of December 2014, Google Translate has been allowing them to see almost any web page in…

Last updated on July 13, 2014 Do you want to switch to Linux? Before doing so, I invite you to reconsider all implied consequences of a switching to another operating…

A few months ago I wrote an article which summarises my history on the Malagasy Wiktionary, and more generally my history on Malagasy language Wikimedia projects. I am back here…

It’s been a while since the last article I wrote on this blog. This article is about the mass adding content on the Malagasy Wiktionary. The object of this post…

Well, it is a quite current subject, as I can find many things about it just through making a search on Google. So after having been captivated by this date…

What about a free unlimited Google API? In the past, Google provided such thing, but it is definitely deprecated (due to abuses?). The new Search API needs money ($5 for…