That is a very good example! On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Harald Haugland <[email protected]> wrote:
> This thread brought me to think of an article I wrote on Norwegian > Wikipedia about a year ago. It was about the Allex Project (African > Languages Lexical Project), a project where universities in Oslo, > Gothenburg and Harare cooperated in developing monolingual text corpus > based dictionaries for shona and ndebele languages in Zimbabwe. > > The project resulted in a dictionary in shona, establishing a lexicographic > institute at the university of Zimbabwe, African Languages Research > Institute, 10 doctor degrees for zimbabwians and much more. Shona and > ndbele were lifted from spoken language to university level and > acknowledged as education language. > > There is a wikipedia in shona language. It has 3106 articles. If one could > engage some of the people that worked in the Allex Project to do a paid > translation job, it would benefit about 14 million speakers, shona is the > most spoken Bantu language, Zulu is next to shona, spoken by 10 million, > according to our articles. > > https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALLEX-prosjektet > > Greetings from frozen, sunny Norway > > Harald Haugland > > > > > 2018-02-28 15:03 GMT+01:00 Jean-Philippe Béland <[email protected]>: > > > The Wikimedia movement is more than encyclopedias... We already have > > Wikiversity for teaching, no? Are efforts to contribute to Wikiversity > and > > other sister projects making us lose focus? I'm not sure to understand > what > > you are saying. > > > > JP > > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:32 AM Amir E. Aharoni < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 2018-02-28 1:25 GMT+02:00 James Salsman <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > I was not trying to say that everybody > > > > > should learn English. The point I was > > > > > trying to make there is that knowing > > > > > English is a privilege and that it is easy > > > > > to not notice it. > > > > > > > > I agree with that, too. How is teaching language different relative > to > > > > the Foundation Mission than teaching subjects of encyclopedia > > > > articles? > > > > > > > > > > > We are not *teaching* encyclopedia articles. We are making it possible > to > > > write them and to read them. It is not the same thing as teaching > > subjects. > > > > > > Should we do teaching? Maybe, but since it's different from making it > > > possible to write and read, I'm afraid it would be losing focus. > > > > > > Is there anything bad about teaching languages? Of course not. It's > > great. > > > I'm just not sure that it's the right thing for Wikimedia to do, when > > > Wikimedia should be busy getting even better at its main thing: wiki > > > articles. > > > > > > -- > > > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > > “We're living in pieces, > > > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
