Heya,
Errr.. may I intrude?
There are several people on this list who are illiterate in their mother
tongue. I know one personally. I myself fall under this category. Being a
Tamilian, presently living in TN, I am able to contribute to the English
versions of articles and at the most Hindi.
Re,
Srikanth.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Ravi shankar said:
If your ambition is to teach the mother tongues
for the convent educated
minority English speaking Indians through a Wiki project and then make them
contribute in Indic language Wikipedias, it may never happen. I am not even
sure if it fits inside Wikipedia's mission.
Yes. that is true. I do not forsee such a thing happening for Indic
wikis. :)
Is Gerard is trying to convey the idea of *Mother Language illiteracy? *Remember
by illiteracy of a language, we mean the inability *to read or write*(rather than
speaking) that specific language. I must say Mother Language
illiteracy is rising in Indian cities and in some states (for example,
Kerala).
In fact if you go through the discussions that I am sharing with you
(about different language wiki communities), many Indic language
wikipedians are also raising the same concern.
I guess my point is to distinguish between illiteracy and non-use or low
use (in
reading and writing), which is more my personal situ on Bengali,
Hindi, Marathi.
So I feel like there may be three or more categories of persons for each
language:
-Speakers who read and write in that lang
-Speakers who don't read and write in that lang (non or low users)
-Speakers who don't know how to read and write in that lang (illiterate,
although I don't like the word)
And agree with Ravi that it would be hard to get both those who are not
literate in a language or low users of it to contribute in that language.
For example, I would be reluctant to contribute in the languages I speak,
but don't write or read in everyday, even though I am technically literate
in them.
Cheers
Bishakha
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.