I don't think it would be losing focus as it fits directly in the mission of the movement to share the sum of human knowledge, since languages are knowledge in themselves.
Yes I agree that Wikiversity could be used for that, but this project really needs support to get to current standards of "online courses", and I don't see much push in that direction.
JP
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:23 PM James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Languages are taught by authoritative dictionaries (after people, and ahead of almost all other similar reference books.)
Wiktionary has multiple teaching functions whether we want it to or not: https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/efe362e1-fe80-4c90-bc1e-4ab2d9bbae20...
Have you seen how much Wiktionary has been growing in Brazil? https://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2018/02/14/seo-world-rankings-2018/
Amir, you know it would not be losing focus because of what you said in your talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_xJaqQV71s
Best regards, Jim
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Well... Not that teaching languages—big or small—is bad, but wouldn't we
be
losing focus if we got into it?
Wikibooks and Wikiversity can theoretically be places for teaching. Are they good at it? Probably not. Should they be made better? Maybe.
בתאריך 27 בפבר׳ 2018 19:52, "Jean-Philippe Béland" <
jpbeland@wikimedia.ca>
כתב:
Amir,
I agree with everything you said, especially that languages are knowledge in themselves, but I must say that Wikimedia is not doing much in an
effort
to teach languages to people. Why isn't there more effort at the WMF or
as
a movement to try to develop a platform to teach languages?
Jean-Philippe Béland Vice President and Programs Coordinator, Wikimedia Canada Coordinator, Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User
Group
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