With this I agree. If this depended on me, I'd give this resources.
-- 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 15:43 GMT+03:00 Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Amir E. Aharoni > <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> 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. > > In the case of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic, there is a not widely known > fact that he was actually hard worker willing to listen others. He was > a villager from Serbia, sent to Austria and Germany to learn how to > help his people. > > In relation to gathering spoken folk tradition, he was listening brothers > Grimm. > > But, more importantly, the ideology and actually the final form of the > modern Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, as well as Vuk's logistics in Vienna > were the product of a Slovene [[Jernej Kopitar]]. > > In our case, we need to find those hard workers all over the small > ethno-linguistic communities, explain what they should do for > themselves and give them logistics. That, of course, *if* they are > willing to that part of job for their communities and *if* they want > to build their knowledge in the form of Wikimedia projects. > > BTW, I know that what I said above sounds enlightenmentish, with all > of the traps of that way of thinking. However, it's not about how they > should live. It's about how they could adopt our technology *if* they > want. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
