Languages are taught by authoritative dictionaries (after people, and ahead of almost all other similar reference books.)
Wiktionary has multiple teaching functions whether we want it to or not: https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/efe362e1-fe80-4c90-bc1e-4ab2d9bbae20/1/ Have you seen how much Wiktionary has been growing in Brazil? https://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2018/02/14/seo-world-rankings-2018/ Amir, you know it would not be losing focus because of what you said in your talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_xJaqQV71s Best regards, Jim On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Well... Not that teaching languages—big or small—is bad, but wouldn't we be > losing focus if we got into it? > > Wikibooks and Wikiversity can theoretically be places for teaching. Are > they good at it? Probably not. Should they be made better? Maybe. > > בתאריך 27 בפבר׳ 2018 19:52, "Jean-Philippe Béland" <[email protected]> > כתב: > > Amir, > > I agree with everything you said, especially that languages are knowledge > in themselves, but I must say that Wikimedia is not doing much in an effort > to teach languages to people. Why isn't there more effort at the WMF or as > a movement to try to develop a platform to teach languages? > > Jean-Philippe Béland > Vice President and Programs Coordinator, Wikimedia Canada > Coordinator, Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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 and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
