Practically, it just means we remind them of the existence of Wiktionary
and that existing Wiktionaries will accept entries in their language.
On another note, you mentioned the "Wikidatification" of Wiktionary, and
I wonder what you mean. People at en-wikt often complain that Wikidata
seems to be completely uninterested in coordinating Wiktionary entries
the way it coordinates Wikipedia articles.
Am 2017-01-27 um 17:09 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
What does that practically mean? It is volunteers who do this for
their own purposes. What is it that we have to care about except that
it is them doing it for their own reasons ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 27 January 2017 at 17:07, Milos Rancic <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Antony Green <[email protected]
<mailto:[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 <http://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.
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