Great news!
How do you say "Welcome" on those languages?
Galder
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online !
Dear All,
Wikimedia Taiwan has a great news to share with all of you!
We are so happy to announced that the two of Taiwan's indigenous languages, the Atayal
Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online!
In 2015, the Taiwan Ministry of Education launched the Indigenous languages Wikipedia
project. Sakizaya Wikipedia was the first language release their Wikipedia in 2019. On
April 15, 2021, Hitay-Payan and Lituk Teymu, who are another two languages Wikipedia
project convener were happy to announce that Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were
online.
Since November 22, 2019, the release day of Sakizaya Wikipedia, there have been 1,840
clauses added. The Wikimedia Taiwan and the Center for aboriginal studies of NCCU joined
the Sakizaya Wikipedia workshop hosted by Sakizaya language organization on March 11-12,
2021 at the Hualien City. During the workshop, we taught Sakizaya people how to migrate
Chinese modules into Sakizaya, and they translated all of them into Sakizaya. There are 50
pictures from Wikimedia Commons was enhanced by Sakizaya and over 100 Wikidata item and
properties were translated into Sakizaya. Moreover, the Sakizaya hashtag "szy"
for other Wikipedia sister projects was ready as well.
Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were released on March 16, 2021, including the
previous Sakizaya language, these are the 3 languages which first included in Wikipedia,
there are in total 16 indigenous languages recognized as aboriginal by the Council of
Indigenous People, Taiwan. The new Wikimedia language hashtag for Atayal (tay) and Seediq
(trv) not only expanded the usability within Wikipedia but also between other Wiki
projects, such as Wikimedia Common and Wikidata.
We are happy to preserve, promote and reuse Taiwan's indigenous languages through the
release of the Wikimedia project, this is an milestone for all of us. We hope to assist
all Indigenous continue finding ways to preserve their legacy and bring their languages
and culture to the world.
Check out our meta-wiki page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA
sincerely,
Joyce
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陳禹先 Yuhsien Chen, Joyce (she/her/hers)
社團法人台灣維基媒體協會 Wikimedia Taiwan
Email: yuhsien.chen@wikimedia.tw<mailto:allenwang@wikimedia.tw>