Hey all Just as an observation regarding the possibilities and potential for an Aboriginal Australian peoples kind project (see below):
1. the native title determination processes generate a lot of detailed research around the manner and extend to which original Aboriginal 'societies' continue and persist into the present ,, often involving research and expert opinion by some very prominent anthropologists, historians, and linguists 2. the native title determination processes are progressively generating detailed research, and for every successful determination, that are semi pubic claimant statements (giving local Aboriginal expert opinion), plus reports that are filed in Court to support claims, and are semi-public/ not priveledged ,, .. being information that the Aboriginal corporations whom the courts decide should hold particular native title generally hold, and can use as they see fit 3. would be interesting project/exercise to write to all the existing Aboriginal corporations holding native title (called registered prescribed bodies corporate), details of which are publicly available on the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) website .. inviting them to have Wikipedia articles ,, where the Federal Court has publicly detemined they are Aboriginal societies/ peoples (native title determinations are available on the Austlii website) ,, being articles for which we would like them to make witness statements and reports available Could be an interesting project, not only putting an Aboriginal perspective and record of research into Wikipedia/ the world ,, but also progressively displaying formal Federal Court determinations of the continuing existence of Aboriginal socieities in Australia ,, being contemporary Aboriginal peoples of Australia?? Currently very busy actually working on one of the native title claims in the North-East Queensland area .. but would be interested in assisting an exercise of this kind in couple of months time ,, should it be thought generally viable, agreeable etc Just some thoughts and observations ,, likely to reinvigorate my own editorial contributions to Wikipedia where haven't added anything for quite some time now Bruce [username: bruceanthro] -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 8/3/14, Janet Reid <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Creation of Noongar (Aboriginal) Wikipedia To: [email protected], "Wikimedia Australia Chapter" <[email protected]> Received: Saturday, 8 March, 2014, 10:52 PM 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 MareeIt 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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
