When we started the second museum collaboration with Derby it was based on the work that Liam and Mike had kicked off at the British Museum. The BM had put up prizes to encourage 5 or so Featured articles - not sure if it was the plan but only one of the winners was in English (I think). In Derby we decided to take that idea and pitch it to those multi lingual people *in Derby* to write articles that were not in English. We failed - as we had lots of articles but only a small proportion were non English articles from Britain. The articles were mostly from Western Europe and Indonesia.
It is a tricky subject to try and find these minorities. As Mike suggests this is maybe best left to those communities to ask if they need help. This has happened in Wales - and Wicipedia is a reat Welsh (and a UK) project. R On 31 January 2013 17:22, HJ Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think it needs to be done in any way that might be contentious. We > (the members of this movement) all share a roughly similar vision, and > realise that attracting new contributors (whether they speak English, > Polish, Irish, or even Huttese) is essential to to keeping that vision > alive. > > It would be interesting to find out how the proportion of the Polish > population in the UK that edits Wikipedia (in any language) compares to the > overall proportion of UK residents who edit Wikipedia. It would certainly be > interesting to try to do some outreach to non-English-speaking groups. Not > necessarily easy, but worthwhile... > > Harry Mitchell > http://enwp.org/User:HJ > Phone: 024 7698 0977 > Skype: harry_j_mitchell > > ________________________________ > From: WereSpielChequers <[email protected]> > To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 16:49 > Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Polish becomes England's second language > > I can see a case for Wikimedia or Wikimedia Poland doing something about > that. But I would advise against a UK based organisation trying to involve > itself in the Republic, especially on such a contentious issue as the second > language of Ireland. > > WSC > > On 30 January 2013 15:54, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Related note: There are more native Polish speakers in Ireland than native > Irish speakers. We may be able to inspire something to happen there too. > > > On 30 January 2013 15:04, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/30/polish-becomes-englands-second-language > > Anything we can do to get more UK-resident Poles editing? > > Do we have any idea of edits to pl:wp from the UK? > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
