It certainly is indigenous. Indigenous literally means and always meant " born in the country in question", not just born anywhere, and that is where Afrikaans was born. The fact that it is derived from external languages is irrelevant; and anyway, practically all the other indigenous languages were derived from further north as well.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 6:19 PM, Deon Steyn <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys > > One question I have to ask: is Afrikaans an indigenous language? > > Regards > > Deon > > -----Original Message----- > From: WikimediaZA [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Reuben Honigwachs > Sent: 09 June 2018 15:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia ZA] Status report: Non-ZA Wikipedian improving the > ZU WP and XH WP > > 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 WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists. > wikimedia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza > To unsubscribe, send an email to WikimediaZA-unsubscribe@lists. > wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
