[snip] For the things we could do, I quote form other people: * encourage Wikisource, Commons, Wiktionary as primary projects for new/endangered languages. You could scan books or documents if the language is written, or record audio/interviews and put that on Commons if t the language is just oral. or we could do both. * we can work on a "kickstart Wikisource" workflow, we are alreading discussing this on the Wikisource mailing list (Ganesh and other Nepalese folks are interested in developing a Nepalese Wikisource). * we can work on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary and try to takle the huge challenge of a real semantic wiktionary using Wikidata. That's a tough one, but i can't wait it to happen.
All these 3 points are mid-term and reachable. as others said, they are just tools, and for preserving a language, not make it survive. Aubrey (sorry for poor english, just before coffee) On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > This is not quite correct. It's very hard, but possible. But Wikimedia > alone cannot do it. Wikimedia can be one of the tools that are used by the > cultural elite, which Milos brought up. Each of these languages needs > people like [[Pompeu Fabra]] and [[Vuk Stefanović Karadžić]] and, dare I > say, [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]]. That's the sine qua non. Wikimedia is just a > tool - a very important one, but not the main one. > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > > 2014-04-22 14:20 GMT+03:00 Ting Chen <[email protected]>: > > > Hello Milos, > > > > welcome back. > > > > Basically I agree with your attitude, with one difference: > > > > I don't think that anyone can help languages survive. What we can do, is > > to help conserve them. > > > > Greetings > > Ting > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
