I remember saying a long time ago – perhaps at the meeting in Berlin –
that if there's a request for a new Wikipedia in an endangered language,
we should certainly comply with it once it meets the requirements, but
in addition, we should also inform the requesters of the possibility of
recording their language's lexicon in a major-language Wiktionary
(typically whatever major language speakers of the endangered language
are most likely to be bilingual in, e.g. Spanish in the case of an
endangered language in Mexico), since they may not be aware of that
possibility. Wiktionary is not as well known as Wikipedia, and not
everyone realizes that Wiktionaries are intended to include words in all
languages, not just their nominal administrative language. There's much
less bureaucracy involved in adding Cora words to es.wiktionary.org than
in starting up a Cora Wikipedia, so the former is something people can
do to record their language while they're waiting for the latter to happen.
Regards,
Antony
Am 2017-01-27 um 16:51 schrieb Milos Rancic:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<[email protected]> wrote:
What is the purpose of answering that question when it makes no difference
in the way we work. Why would we consider it, what is the point. Asking for
academic reasons?
Asaf, I agree with Gerard's position in relation to the purpose of the
question/answer.
May you clarify which practical implications you want to achieve with
this question?
If it's about the set of suggestions for people trying to preserve
their languages, I suggest a very cautious approach just after they
get what they want. Yes, it seems more rational to push them to make a
good bilingual dictionary, but we have to be careful not to alienate
them.
If you had in your mind something else, please let us know.
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