I support Deborah's notion of coordinating efforts to strengthen indigenous languages. Collaboratively and largely in public. Best also to formulate a solid strategy and concrete actions.
We should only specify where exactly and how this discussion is going to take place: Meta [1 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa>] or chapter wiki [2 <http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Main_Page>]. BTW, the chapter wiki is in the process of being migrated to WMF [3 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195926>] and will support unified login (single user login). [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa [2] http://wikimedia.org.za/wiki/Main_Page [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195926 Best, Reuben On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 at 13:59, Douglas Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Deborah, thanks for contacting us. I will send you a private message > cc'ing in some key people so as not to spam people on this mailing list. > > Regards, > > Douglas. > > On 2 June 2018 at 13:26, Deborah S. Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear members of Wikimedia ZA, > > > > Living outside South Africa, I was unable to attend either of the recent > > Capacity-Building workshops (meet-ups) with Asaf Bartov. Now it's June > and > > Wikimedia 2018 is fast approaching - so I'm writing to you all via the > > mailing list in hopes of forging a bond of inclusion with Wikimedia ZA, > at > > least to apprise you of my activities. > > > > For over ten months I've contributed daily to the Zulu Wikipedia, also > for > > the past two months in the Xhosa WP. Neither WP has an administrator, and > > their few veteran or new editors are active only occasionally. My own > > language resources are sparse and I haven't succeeded in developing > > contacts who can evaluate my provisional translations. (I work prudently > > with Google Translate and avoid creating wrongly named pages and > especially > > categories.) > > > > Nonetheless I've made constant progress based on the Special pages: > > resolving red links, categorizing, linking with Wikidata, adding bio > > data, identifying > > duplicate pages, clearing inappropriate content, etc. I do create > > stub-quality pages, mainly biographical based on WIkidata and the EN WP. > > > > Even if other Wikipedians aren't available for consultation, the process > of > > building these small WPs would benefit from South Africans' input. I'd > like > > to participate in discussions of developing Afrocentric content and > > avoiding cultural bias - e.g., the current eurocentric "Vital articles" > > and "Vital 100" have already generated dozens of stubs and hundreds of > red > > links, while many valid topics in the subcategories of :en:Category:South > > Africa are largely absent. > > > > Ideally these discussions will take place within WP on Talk pages, and > not > > in listserved or private emails or on Facebook (useful as those channels > > are). And board members: I encourage the Wikimedia ZA page on meta be > kept > > up, particularly as an archive documenting chapter events, and please > have > > someone regularly review activity on the Talk page there. (Two of my > posts > > await reply...) > > > > I'll send this now, with thanks for your having read thus far :- ) > > I welcome your responses and am looking forward to our future > > collaborations and efforts to improve the Wikipedia projects. > > > > Sincerely, > > Deborah (User:Deborahjay) > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > WikimediaZA mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > > To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists. > > wikimedia.org > > > > > -- > Douglas Ian Scott > 司道格 > Skype: douglas0scott > South African mobile number: +27 (0)79 515 8727 > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
