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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.)
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).