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/Wikipedia_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>*
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