On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Antony Green <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Yes. Also recorded materials in spoken language would be great to have. Although, we would need here to be cautious and follow contemporary norms of anthropology and field work. _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
