Talk:State of the Nation (Ghana)

Timeline of speeches[edit]

@Flixtey:@Rberchie: Does anybody knows where we can get a transcription of the speeches? It would be nice to have them summarized. I believe political researchers might be interested in something like that.—Masssly ^✉ 17:46, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Masssly: @Rberchie: i have been trying to gather pdfs or documents of the full texts on the speeches to enable us elaborate the timeline of the speeches Flixtey (talk) 13:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Like—Masssly^✉ 17:59, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Flixtey:@Masssly: I saw a transcript in the Friday's edition of the Daily Graphic maybe for starters we could use that.--Rberchie (talk) 09:34, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Masssly: @Rberchie: How do you intend to use that, take a picture of it? i wish we gather links with the full text in pdf formats already uploaded on the internet and then create external link sources to them Flixtey (talk) 13:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Flixtey are there "links with the full text in pdf" on the internet? I Haven't checked yet because I'm out of data. If there are that would be great we'll simply use those links as references. Otherwise like Rberchie found out, images/scans can be taken, uploaded on Wikisource and transcribed later (if only that's legal). I don't remember where but John Carter once mentioned he could provide Ghanaian newspapers dating back in time.—Masssly ^✉ 14:01, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Masssly: @Rberchie: you may find changes on the article and restructuring to clearly communicate the message.

I think a transcript of this year's address can be found here. At least some others can be found here. I don't myself know any copyright issues involved in these particular addresses, but if they are in the public domain, as I think they may well be, it would certainly be possible to add them to wikisource if good original files can be found to use for the transcription. John Carter (talk) 16:53, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you John those links are very useful and we would use them. Being the only place that actually hosts those documents I think it's still a good idea if we get them on wiki source. It's not unusual that you'd go there one day and not find it anymore. Anyone here familiar with wiki source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masssly (talk • contribs) 19:21, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]