Hi,
I agree with Tom that WMUK supports open knowledge across all the
projects, that includes the Tamil Wikipedia as well as the Welsh and
Scots one.
As a trustee I'm keen that we can demonstrate our commitment to
diversity and international collaboration. That's one of the reasons
we were excited to have bragging rights for the Derby Museum articles
existing in 100+ languages and for the V&A museum to involve live
collaboration in multiple languages in multiple countries.
As part of the GLAM UK task force I am also interested in developing a
sustainable GLAM network of e-volunteers. As there is significant
interest in Welsh, Scots and Gaelic (Scottish and Irish) these are
specific opportunities to support new Wikimedians for local languages.
Rather than being tempted to pre-judge importance based on whether any
particular language version of Wikipedia being currently weak, I
suggest we prioritise our support based on genuine community interest.
If more people living in the UK come forward wanting to do an exciting
project on the Somalian Wikipedia, that will probably get more of our
attention and be more of a priority for any funding than a proposal
for a Welsh project with only one supporter.
I agree that the Scots Wikipedia needs improvement, that makes it a
great opportunity for a spontaneous proposal for funding from a group
of Wikimedians with Scots language skills which the board can then
judge on its own merits, I can assure you that all the trustees would
love to receive such proposals.
Cheers,
Fae
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