Message: 3 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:01:58 +0100 From: Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming "Wikipedistes" documentary in Catalan TV Message-ID: < CAFVcA-HKLTdy3TmBCXEGcQp+s1KT6btSLcN8f9Uetn3Qyk6O2A@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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.)

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).