Richard Symonds

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On 1 February 2013 09:40, Roger Bamkin <victuallers@gmail.com> wrote:

When we started the second museum collaboration with Derby it was
based on the work that Liam and Mike had kicked off at the British
Museum. The BM had put up prizes to encourage 5 or so Featured
articles - not sure if it was the plan but only one of the winners was
in English (I think). In Derby we decided to take that idea and pitch
it to those multi lingual people *in Derby* to write articles that
were not in English. We failed - as we had lots of articles but only a
small proportion were non English articles from Britain. The articles
were mostly from Western Europe and Indonesia.

It is a tricky subject to try and find these minorities. As Mike
suggests this is maybe best left to those communities to ask if they
need help. This has happened in Wales - and Wicipedia is a reat Welsh
(and a UK) project.

R

On 31 January 2013 17:22, HJ Mitchell <hjmitchell@ymail.com> wrote:
> I don't think it needs to be done in any way that might be contentious. We
> (the members of this movement) all share a roughly similar vision, and
> realise that attracting new contributors (whether they speak English,
> Polish, Irish, or even Huttese) is essential to to keeping that vision
> alive.
>
> It would be interesting to find out how the proportion of the Polish
> population in the UK that edits Wikipedia (in any language) compares to the
> overall proportion of UK residents who edit Wikipedia. It would certainly be
> interesting to try to do some outreach to non-English-speaking groups. Not
> necessarily easy, but worthwhile...
>
> Harry Mitchell
> http://enwp.org/User:HJ
> Phone: 024 7698 0977
> Skype: harry_j_mitchell
>
> ________________________________
> From: WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers@gmail.com>
> To: UK Wikimedia mailing list <wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 16:49
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Polish becomes England's second language
>
> I can see a case for Wikimedia or Wikimedia Poland doing something about
> that. But I would advise against a UK based organisation trying to involve
> itself in the Republic, especially on such a contentious issue as the second
> language of Ireland.
>
> WSC
>
> On 30 January 2013 15:54, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Related note: There are more native Polish speakers in Ireland than native
> Irish speakers. We may be able to inspire something to happen there too.
>
>
> On 30 January 2013 15:04, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/30/polish-becomes-englands-second-language
>
> Anything we can do to get more UK-resident Poles editing?
>
> Do we have any idea of edits to pl:wp from the UK?
>
>
> - d.
>
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