> Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:01:58 +0100 > From: Jane Darnell <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming "Wikipedistes" documentary in > Catalan TV > Message-ID: > < > cafvca-hkltdy3tmbcxegcqp+s1kt6btslcn8f9uetn3qyk6...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Thanks for posting - I loved the documentary! For me the most obvious > difference between the groups shown in your various meetings and the > get-togethers we have in the Netherlands is the age of the > participants. I think we in WMNL attract a lot more "gray hair" than > you do. I think it would be a great idea to cut it up into clips, > because there are lots of themes in there that can all draw their own > public (libraries & museums, WLM, QRpedia, etc.) > > I wonder if the age difference has to do with the slightly political > nature of keeping a smaller language afloat in a country that > recognizes another language as the official one?
It has to do with the slightly political nature of trying to extinguish a great language. All gray haired appearing in the video they had to learn to write being adults. When they went to school the Catalan was banned and persecuted. > It makes me wonder > about the average age of the people showing up at meetings for the > Frisian Wikipedia in the northern cities of the Netherlands. I have > never been to one of their meetings before but now I am curious (and > we don't have a Frisian Wikimedia community - yet). > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
