thank you On 6 February 2017 at 21:45, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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>* >>> >>> >>> >> > -- 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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