Congratulations for Wikimedia Taiwan, Atayal community, and Seediq community!
It's always exciting to start a new Wikipedia project, especially in a language that is close to your heart. I wish the communities the best of luck in developing their Wikipedias. Best, David On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 16:38 Joyce Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > *Dear All, * > > *Wikimedia Taiwan has a great news to share with all of you! * > > > > > > > > *We are so happy to announced that the two of Taiwan's indigenous > languages, the Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online! > In 2015, the Taiwan Ministry of Education launched the Indigenous languages > Wikipedia project. Sakizaya Wikipedia was the first language release their > Wikipedia in 2019. On April 15, 2021, Hitay-Payan and Lituk Teymu, who are > another two languages Wikipedia project convener were happy to announce > that Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were online.Since November 22, > 2019, the release day of Sakizaya Wikipedia, there have been 1,840 clauses > added. The Wikimedia Taiwan and the Center for aboriginal studies of NCCU > joined the Sakizaya Wikipedia workshop hosted by Sakizaya language > organization on March 11-12, 2021 at the Hualien City. During the workshop, > we taught Sakizaya people how to migrate Chinese modules into Sakizaya, and > they translated all of them into Sakizaya. There are 50 pictures from > Wikimedia Commons was enhanced by Sakizaya and over 100 Wikidata item and > properties were translated into Sakizaya. Moreover, the Sakizaya hashtag > "szy" for other Wikipedia sister projects was ready as well. * > > > > > > *Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were released on March 16, 2021, > including the previous Sakizaya language, these are the 3 languages which > first included in Wikipedia, there are in total 16 indigenous languages > recognized as aboriginal by the Council of Indigenous People, Taiwan. The > new Wikimedia language hashtag for Atayal (tay) and Seediq (trv) not only > expanded the usability within Wikipedia but also between other Wiki > projects, such as Wikimedia Common and Wikidata. We are happy to preserve, > promote and reuse Taiwan's indigenous languages through the release of the > Wikimedia project, this is an milestone for all of us. We hope to assist > all Indigenous continue finding ways to preserve their legacy and bring > their languages and culture to the world. Check out our meta-wiki page: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA>* > > *sincerely,* > *Joyce* > > -- > *陳禹先 **Yuhsien Chen, Joyce (she/her/hers)* > *社團法人台灣維基媒體協會 Wikimedia Taiwan* > Email: [email protected] <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > 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> >
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