Hello!
I have started a proposal for a new wiki project: WikiLang (meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang). It is about endangered languages and language documentation/decipherment. It is a very important step in order to save our linguistic diversity which is ongoing faster than the extinction of animals. Most of our languages are highly endangered and there are pessimistic estimations that by 2100 90% of them will be extinct. So, please support the project and vote for it and/or give your feedback! (I for myself belong to a language minority and I can tell how important this is.) Thanks a lot!
Kevin
Hi.
Could you explain in more detail (on the wiki page you linked) what the content would look like and how it would differ from the Incubator wiki? For example, would original research be allowed?
Best regards, Thomas.
2013/2/18 Kevin Behrens kevin_behrens@hotmail.de:
Hello!
I have started a proposal for a new wiki project: WikiLang (meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang). It is about endangered languages and language documentation/decipherment. It is a very important step in order to save our linguistic diversity which is ongoing faster than the extinction of animals. Most of our languages are highly endangered and there are pessimistic estimations that by 2100 90% of them will be extinct. So, please support the project and vote for it and/or give your feedback! (I for myself belong to a language minority and I can tell how important this is.) Thanks a lot!
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On 18 February 2013 16:33, Kevin Behrens kevin_behrens@hotmail.de wrote:
Hello!
I have started a proposal for a new wiki project: WikiLang (meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang). It is about endangered languages and >language documentation/decipherment. It is a very important step in order to save our linguistic diversity which is ongoing faster than >the extinction of animals.
Why? Most of the languages in question have so little information stored in them that even if we assume a total loss of that information (which is unlikely) that downside will be massively outweighed by the upside of easier communication between people.
Hoi, The one thing I am really interested in learning is how information about and content in a specific languages will be handled.
Information about is likely to be in another language, consequently WHAT language. Content could be in something like Wikisource / Wikibooks. Thanks, Gerard
On 18 February 2013 22:57, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 February 2013 16:33, Kevin Behrens kevin_behrens@hotmail.de wrote:
Hello!
I have started a proposal for a new wiki project: WikiLang (
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang). It is about endangered languages and
language documentation/decipherment. It is a very important step in order
to save our linguistic diversity which is ongoing faster than >the extinction of animals.
Why? Most of the languages in question have so little information stored in them that even if we assume a total loss of that information (which is unlikely) that downside will be massively outweighed by the upside of easier communication between people.
-- geni
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I think the talk page for the proposal would be a brilliant place to discuss concerns and suggestions.
Just sayin' :)
-Sarah
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi, The one thing I am really interested in learning is how information about and content in a specific languages will be handled.
Information about is likely to be in another language, consequently WHAT language. Content could be in something like Wikisource / Wikibooks. Thanks, Gerard
On 18 February 2013 22:57, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 February 2013 16:33, Kevin Behrens kevin_behrens@hotmail.de
wrote:
Hello!
I have started a proposal for a new wiki project: WikiLang (
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang). It is about endangered languages and
language documentation/decipherment. It is a very important step in
order
to save our linguistic diversity which is ongoing faster than >the extinction of animals.
Why? Most of the languages in question have so little information stored in them that even if we assume a total loss of that information (which is unlikely) that downside will be massively outweighed by the upside of easier communication between people.
-- geni
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Kevin Behrens, 18/02/2013 17:33:
Hello!
I have started a proposal for a new wiki project: WikiLang (meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang). It is about endangered languages and language documentation/decipherment. It is a very important step in order to save our linguistic diversity which is ongoing faster than the extinction of animals. Most of our languages are highly endangered and there are pessimistic estimations that by 2100 90% of them will be extinct. So, please support the project and vote for it and/or give your feedback! (I for myself belong to a language minority and I can tell how important this is.) Thanks a lot!
For months I failed to see the rationale of the proposal, now I think I got it. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:WikiLang&diff=prev&oldid=5544573 It's about an unstructured collection of content and discussions, so instead of spending time requesting a Wikimedia project I personally suggest you to create a Wikia wiki and/or to ask http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ a wiki under their domain, integrated with their forums or whatever they use.
Nemo
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