Good day "languages" community,
I use this opportunity to announce you that we have recently published a
toolbox titled "Indigenous Languages and Knowledge on Wikimedia Projects
Toolbox" on Meta. You can read it there
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Languages_and_Knowledge_on_Wikim….
It is currently available in English and French. We are actively looking
for translators, especially in Spanish.
This toolbox is the result of a partnership during the "Atikamekw
Knowledge, Culture and Language in Wikimedia Project" that saw the creation
of the Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin, officially launched last June,
where experienced Wikimedians from Wikimedia Canada partnered with local
indigenous peoples from the Atikamekw communities as well as researchers to
document the project. Those researchers are the authors of this toolbox,
but nothing could have been possible without the great participation from
Atikamekw contributors. You can learn more about the Atikamekw Project
there:
https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atikamekw_knowledge,_culture_and_language_in_….
You can see the Wikipetcia Atikamekw Nehiromowin there:
https://atj.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otitikowin.
The second thing I wanted to tell you is the official recognition of a new
user group by the Wikimedia Affiliates Committee: the Wikimedians of North
American Indigenous Languages User Group. You can see the user group's page
on meta there:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_La…
.
The mission of the user group is to support the creation and development of
Wikimedia projects and other language-related free initiatives in
indigenous languages of North America by creating a network of peer to peer
collaboration among the North America indigenous peoples on Wikimedia
projects, providing help and technical support from experienced
Wikimedians, and developing education material about creating new Wikimedia
projects in the indigenous and smaller languages' context
Anybody interested in any of those topics are invited to contact me.
Thank you all,
Jean-Philippe Béland
Vice President, Wikimedia Canada
Coordinator, Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group