I will ask a Meta admin to delete the page. On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote:
> sorry folks ahs anyone actually looked at this it should just be closed as > not yet, it been proposed a user who has made a total of nine edits across > all projects on 22/23 November 2016 nothing since. > > The cultural issues that this person will face are significant, even more > as they dont speak the language. After 3 years of work on the NYS language > with local community support it'll go nowhere. > > Wikimedia Australia and myself will help any of the indigenous language > groups develop a Wikipedia ultimately having over 300 Indigenous Australia > language projects would awesome but dont set them up to fail specially like > this where the damage done and lost of trust from the speaking community > will have a profound lasting impact on sharing knowledge. > > On 6 February 2017 at 20:52, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote: > >> sorry missed to original email will take a look >> >> On 6 February 2017 at 19:21, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Without response, I am resetting the counter and proposing this >>> request to be on hold. Deadline for comments is 14 February. >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > There is a proposal [1] for Wikipedia in Bandjalang [2]. It is a >>> > Pama–Nyungan language [3], an indigenous languages of Australia. >>> > >>> > The problem with indigenous languages of Australia is that they are >>> > used by very small number of speakers. The rule is that there are just >>> > few dozen of speakers. >>> > >>> > According to Ethnologue, the language is "shifting" [4], meaning that >>> > it is not likely that there are young speakers. >>> > >>> > Usual action in the situations like this one is to put the proposal >>> > "on hold" and wait for native speakers. However, I think that WM AU >>> > could do something here. And that's why I've added Gideon Digby into >>> > communication. >>> > >>> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/W >>> ikipedia_Bandjalang >>> > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandjalang_language >>> > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pama%E2%80%93Nyungan_languages >>> > [4] https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bdy >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gideon Digby >> President - Wikimedia Australia >> M: 0434 986 852 >> [email protected] >> http://wikimedia.org.au >> >> Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which >> supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. Your >> donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive. >> *http://wikimedia.org.au/Donate <https://wikimedia.org.au/Donate>* >> >> >> > > > -- > Gideon Digby > President - Wikimedia Australia > M: 0434 986 852 > [email protected] > http://wikimedia.org.au > > Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which > supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. Your > donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive. > *http://wikimedia.org.au/Donate <https://wikimedia.org.au/Donate>* > > >
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