Hoi,
For me when a body like a chapter or a reputable organisation says that
they will support a project it means for me that we should not insist on
the Incubator as much as we do.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 February 2017 at 14:22, 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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