that's a very valid point. I heard something a while ago about an initiative between India and South Africa supported by WMF which was collecting oral information from elders in those places in such a way that it could be used as a verifiable source on Wikipedia on topics not readily covered by regular secondary sources.
kindest regards Andrew On 8 March 2014 19:52, Janet Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 March 2014 21:54, Craig Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For what it's worth, this is something I thought about a lot during my >> time involved with WMAU. >> >> I don't think an Indigenous language Wikipedia is going to be viable in >> the short term. >> > > It would be nice for there to be a way to recognise Aboriginal > perspectives. > Citing is likely to be a challenge. > > Once I showed some community women in Maree the page for Maree > It said her language was extinct. She said it was not. > I posted to the talk page that local people did still speak the language. > But the source was a living person whereas the extinction was citing a > published book. > > Is there a different kind of wiki project which could accommodate that > kind of perspective/source. > Is it possible to make articles which are relevant in their relevant > languages? > Not make a full wikipedia but capture descriptions of communities and > places in the relevant language? > > just a thought > > j > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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