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> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:01:58 +0100
> From: Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming "Wikipedistes" documentary in
> Catalan TV
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> Thanks for posting - I loved the documentary! For me the most obvious
> difference between the groups shown in your various meetings and the
> get-togethers we have in the Netherlands is the age of the
> participants. I think we in WMNL attract a lot more "gray hair" than
> you do. I think it would be a great idea to cut it up into clips,
> because there are lots of themes in there that can all draw their own
> public (libraries & museums, WLM, QRpedia, etc.)
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> I wonder if the age difference has to do with the slightly political
> nature of keeping a smaller language afloat in a country that
> recognizes another language as the official one?
It has to do with the slightly political nature of trying to extinguish a
great language. All gray haired appearing in the video they had to learn to
write being adults. When they went to school the Catalan was banned and
persecuted.
> It makes me wonder
> about the average age of the people showing up at meetings for the
> Frisian Wikipedia in the northern cities of the Netherlands. I have
> never been to one of their meetings before but now I am curious (and
> we don't have a Frisian Wikimedia community - yet).
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