Re: [African Wikimedians] languages of Mozambique

-- Cornelius Kibelka Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED Bobby Shabangu bobbyshabangu@gmail.com schrieb am Do., 21. März 2019, 22:00: > In South Africa we have the distance advantage plus we share the Tsonga > language with these people. > > So, I'll speak to the Wikimedia South African chapter and find out if our > mission aligned partners in South Africa can't connect us with communities > over there to run edit workshops. Our partners with branches in Mozambique > include the Goethe Institut and the Swedish embassy. We can also contact > Edwardo Mondlane University to find out if we can't run an edit workshop > with their library department. > > There's no formula for making a Wikipedian but it would be worth a try to > actually go there and see if we can't spread the word about Wikipedia. > > Regards, > Bobby Shabangu > > On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 9:08 PM Amir E. Aharoni, amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Following the terrible news of the natural disasters in Mozambique, I >> looked at which languages are spoken there. >> >> As in many other African countries, the official language is a European >> one, Portuguese. There's a large Wikipedia in it, but less than half of the >> people in Mozambique actually know it (according to Ethnologue, >> https://www.ethnologue.com/country/MZ/languages ). >> >> I could find only one native languages of Mozambique in which there is a >> Wikipedia: Tsonga. This Wikipedia is very small, but it has a small group >> of dedicated editors. >> >> All the other languages of Mozambique don't have any Wikipedia at all: >> Makhuwa, Lomwe, Tswa, Mwera, and others. They don't even have an Incubator. >> >> So, this is a very long shot, but I'll mention this anyway: If, in the >> wake of this catastrophe, or at any other point and for whatever reason, >> someone raises the idea of writing Wikipedia articles in any of these >> languages, please remember that the fact that there is no Wikipedia or >> incubator in them *now* is not an excuse for not doing it. Anyone who can >> write in them can be the first person to do it. An Incubator can be created >> at any point in any language, and I'll be happy to assist anyone who is >> interested in doing this. >> >> -- >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com >> ‪“We're living in pieces, >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >