Fortunately one of our colleagues Dumisani Ndubane -who's also active in the Xitsonga Wikipedia - has started some ground work there and I understand he's going back for a 2nd round of edit workshops next week Monday. @Paulo I think you can contact him.
https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/Mozambique Regards, Bobby Shabangu On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 1:17 AM Paulo Santos Perneta, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We don't even have a Portuguese speaking Mozambican community (not even a > single editor, AFAIK) at the Portuguese Wikipedia. All my efforts on FB and > other social media to reach out to people of Mozambique went unanswered. > When we are having a tremendous difficulty in building even a community > that should be fairly easy to build (at least in Maputo, which has been > quite developed in last years), I've not any hope on even going into > subjects that are even quite difficult for us here in Europe with all the > possibilities we have (small languages like Mirandese come to mind). > > Anyway, if there is some way I personally, as well as Wikimedia Portugal, > can help on that quest, or in anything else related to community building > in Mozambique, please tell. We would really like to see a Wikimedia > community starting in Mozambique, should they speak Tsonga, Portuguese, or > any other language people may have. > > Cheers, > Paulo > > Cornelius Kibelka <[email protected]> escreveu no dia > quinta, 21/03/2019 à(s) 22:56: > >> Having lived in Mozambique for a while I can just say that it will be >> really, really hard to create any community besides one working on the >> Portuguese-speaking projects. Most of the Mozambican languages are rarely >> written, some of them (especially the Northern ones) are not even >> alphabetized or even lexicalized, and none is taught in school or used by >> authorities (contrary to anything that is happening in South Africa). >> >> (sorry for my saddening comment) >> >> Cheers >> Cornelius >> >> -- >> >> Cornelius Kibelka >> >> Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations >> Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED >> >> >> >> Bobby Shabangu <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 21. März 2019, >> 22:00: >> >>> In South Africa we have the distance advantage plus we share the Tsonga >>> language with these people. >>> >>> So, I'll speak to the Wikimedia South African chapter and find out if >>> our mission aligned partners in South Africa can't connect us with >>> communities over there to run edit workshops. Our partners with branches in >>> Mozambique include the Goethe Institut and the Swedish embassy. We can >>> also contact Edwardo Mondlane University to find out if we can't run an >>> edit workshop with their library department. >>> >>> There's no formula for making a Wikipedian but it would be worth a try >>> to actually go there and see if we can't spread the word about Wikipedia. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bobby Shabangu >>> >>> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 9:08 PM Amir E. Aharoni, < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Following the terrible news of the natural disasters in Mozambique, I >>>> looked at which languages are spoken there. >>>> >>>> As in many other African countries, the official language is a European >>>> one, Portuguese. There's a large Wikipedia in it, but less than half of the >>>> people in Mozambique actually know it (according to Ethnologue, >>>> https://www.ethnologue.com/country/MZ/languages ). >>>> >>>> I could find only one native languages of Mozambique in which there is >>>> a Wikipedia: Tsonga. This Wikipedia is very small, but it has a small group >>>> of dedicated editors. >>>> >>>> All the other languages of Mozambique don't have any Wikipedia at all: >>>> Makhuwa, Lomwe, Tswa, Mwera, and others. They don't even have an Incubator. >>>> >>>> So, this is a very long shot, but I'll mention this anyway: If, in the >>>> wake of this catastrophe, or at any other point and for whatever reason, >>>> someone raises the idea of writing Wikipedia articles in any of these >>>> languages, please remember that the fact that there is no Wikipedia or >>>> incubator in them *now* is not an excuse for not doing it. Anyone who can >>>> write in them can be the first person to do it. An Incubator can be created >>>> at any point in any language, and I'll be happy to assist anyone who is >>>> interested in doing this. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >>>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >>>> “We're living in pieces, >>>> I want to live in peace.” – T. 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