Kaya Pine Yes, please share my original email around to other lists, chapters or any group who might find benefit from the work being done here.
I am happy for my contact details to be shared and to answer questions about the project. Thank you On 1 January 2017 at 12:54, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for sending this, Gnangarra. Cascadia Wikimedians has an interest in > content relating to the indigenous peoples of North America, so I'm > forwarding your email to the Cascadia mailing list for others to read. > > Pine > > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Gnangarra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Kaya > > > > Some of you would have become aware of a project in Perth Western > Australia > > that has been ongoing since 2014. The ultimate aim is have > > nys.wikipedia.org > > currently its at https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys with 500 > > articles > > > > While everyone has been focused on enjoying the holiday break the people > > facilitating this project have been busily writing a report on the > project > > and it was publish last night. > > > > It looks at working with an Indigenous cultural/language group in the > > southwest of Western Australia, the first chapter covers this detail. > > > > The project has been working on a number of very specific challenges > facing > > minority and Indigenous cultures in contributing to the projects. It > > discusses what worked how that evolved, we investigated intangible > > knowledge sources and even challenged the methods of collecting the > > statistics behind the conclusion that Noongar language is a threatened > > language. > > > > The project has worked with multiple generations of Nyoongar people in > > differing environments, its worked with students from the early years of > > primary school 6,7 8 years old through to post graduate students. > > > > Wikimedia Australia is currently organising opportunities to discuss with > > facilitators of the project, the first event is in Darwin in March and > > later in Perth during October. As always if you find yourself in Perth > let > > me know we are always ready to have yarn. In the mean time enjoy reading > > about Noongarpedia and we hope it offers insights > > > > http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience > > > > -- > > > > G > > ideon > > President Wikimedia Australia > > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra > > Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- GN. President Wikimedia Australia WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
