I've removed the request from the list of the requests and I've asked Meta admins to delete the page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#Pages
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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