[Wikimedia-l] Election Related & Political Wikimedia

[Edward Saperia]

Seems like an election is looming in the UK - if any of you are working on
election related projects (wikimedia or otherwise) that you want to
encourage people to reuse or generally raise awareness of, I have created
electiontechhandbook.uk which I will be publicising widely amongst
technical communities in the next few days. Please take a look and
contribute!

*Edward Saperia*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Which script oral language will use anyway?

[Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga]

This is a really interesting topic. Those who are used to the latin script 
normally don't get the difficulties to answer this question, but it can be a 
real challenge. An alphanumeric random code could be an answer, but we are 
still in the same point!

From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of 
Subhashish Panigrahi 
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 9:25 PM
To: langua...@lists.wikimedia.org 
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Which script oral language will use anyway?

Dear Wikimedians,

Some of you might be recovering from the Wikimania fatigue. Those of you
who have already recovered, I wanted to pick your brain about something
that came up multiple times during discussions but none really seem to have
a clear answer.

Which script (writing system) an oral language speaker would use for
creating an entry on (gateway [1]) projects like Wiktionary or Wikibooks or
even uploading a list of words on Commons using a tool like Lingua Libre?
Will it be the script used for the official language of the region where
the former language is from?[2] This is a bit controversial as native
speakers of many indigenous languages would see this as a form of
colonization. Will it be the w:International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)? This
is probably the least controversial but a common and average user might not
be able to read IPA as the latter was created by linguists and was created
for linguistic and scholarly studies rather than for everyday use.

Wikimedians who are native speakers of languages with less written/recorded
documentation and individuals who work on such languages are more
encouraged to share their inputs based on past experience.

1. Gateway project: This is a made-up term to define the Wikimedia projects
that are more welcoming to newbies and do not require stringent citation as
almost all oral languages would lack that. It was fascinating to see Amir
challenging that it only takes about 30 seconds to add an entry to
Wiktionary (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amir_Aharoni_demonstrating_how_to_add_an_entry_to_Wiktionary_in_any_language_to_Ingrid_Cumming,_Wikimania_2019,_Stockholm,_Sweden.jpg
)

Subhashish
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Change in WMAU Committee

[Philip Kopetzky]

Congrats to the elected members of WMAU :-)

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 13:08, Biyanto Rebin 
wrote:

> Congratulations, Robert and all WMAU team!
>
> Regards,
>
> Pada tanggal Jum, 30 Agu 2019 pukul 06.01 Robert Myers <
> robert.my...@wikimedia.org.au> menulis:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Sunday 25 August 2019, Wikimedia Australia held its Annual General
> > Meeting (AGM).
> >
> > Two long term Committee members, Gideon Digby and Tom Hograth, have
> taken a
> > step back from WMAU as Committee members but will be still involved
> within
> > the movement.
> >
> > Current WMAU Committee as of 25 August 2019
> >
> > Office-bearers
> >
> >- Pru Mitchell - President
> >- Alex Lum - Vice-President
> >- Robert Myers - Secretary
> >- Steven Crossin - Treasurer
> >
> > Ordinary Committee Members
> >
> >- Caddie Brain
> >- Matthew Moore
> >- Jacinta Sutton
> >- Sam Wilson
> >
> > Regards,
> > Robert
> >
> > --
> >
> > Robert Myers
> > Secretary - Wikimedia Australia
> > M: +61 400 670 288
> > robert.my...@wikimedia.org.au
> > http://www.wikimedia.org.au
> >
> > Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which
> > supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. We welcome
> > your support by membership or donations to keep the Wikimedia mission
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