Having lived in Mozambique for a while I can just
say that it will be
really, really hard to create any community besides one working on the
Portuguese-speaking projects. Most of the Mozambican languages are rarely
written, some of them (especially the Northern ones) are not even
alphabetized or even lexicalized, and none is taught in school or used by
authorities (contrary to anything that is happening in South Africa).
(sorry for my saddening comment)
Cheers
Cornelius
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Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations
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Bobby Shabangu <bobbyshabangu(a)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(a)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.
>
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