For organizing purposes, the Afrikaans WP community (affiliated or potential) has the advantage of geographic affinity with the Wikimedia ZA chapter. Likewise the demographic concentration affords potential for streamlining recruitment and training of editors.
I look forward to multilingual collaborations to expand and enhance South Africa-related content in Wikidata and the Wikimedia Commons. Cheers, Deborahjay On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Jon Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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]
