Just read the entire proposal and discussion thread - yikes! Looks like
a matter of politics and personal issues to me, neither of which will be
solved by the closure of a WMF project. I don't see a) any reason why we
should support this request and b) any opportunity to communicate openly
and rationally with Marrovi as he does not seem to accept any critical
voice, or any non-Nahuatl voice for that matter (and to make matters
worse, he seems to be the only one defining who counts as Nahua).
My advice: Oppose the closure and don't waste any more time on Marrovi.
(But support indigenous Nahuatl wikis, by all means!)
Fwiw,
Oliver
On 10-Oct-17 22:47, Milos Rancic wrote:
Forwarding Marcos' email.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Marcos Williamson" <node.ue(a)gmail.com
<mailto:node.ue@gmail.com>>
Date: Oct 10, 2017 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Langcom] Request for closure of Nahuatl Wikipedia
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee"
<langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:langcom@lists.wikimedia.org>>,
"Milos Rancic" <millosh(a)gmail.com <mailto:millosh@gmail.com>>
Cc:
(not sure I have the ability to post here but I wanted to comment
although I am not a member of the committee)
This raises some issues that have been bubbling up since the beginning
of NAH Wikipedia. In Mexico there is a very particular type of racism
or prejudice where classical indigenous cultures and languages are
upheld as ideals to aspire to, while modern indigenous cultures and
people are minimized. This seems to have been the theme since the
beginning. Over one million people are native speakers of Náhuatl.
This Wikipedia was never intended for them, and any and all input from
native speakers or people advocating for modern indigenous
perspectives to be considered has been summarily ignored and excluded.
Non-speakers (NAH-0 and NAH-1) have been so rigid in their insistence
on adherence to Classical Náhuatl norms (which they are, ironically,
not proficient in anyways) that I once got into an edit war with a
user who insisted on changing the orthography loanword "rock" (as in
"rock n roll") to "rocq", which is more extreme than even Spanish
(the
source of Classical Náhuatl orthography) and unknown by actual Náhuatl
speakers.
Mexico and Central America have large indigenous populations that
include prolific and active writers in indigenous languages. It is a
shame that Wikipedia has not been able to be part of strategies for
indigenous language maintenance in this region, in spite of serious
efforts from Yucatec Maya speakers to create a Wikipedia and repeated
attempts of Náhuatl speakers to influence the direction of the
"Náhuatl Wikipedia"
On Oct 10, 2017 12:32 PM, "Maor Malul" <maor_x(a)zoho.com
<mailto:maor_x@zoho.com>> wrote:
Hello,
We have received a request for closure of the Nahuatl Wikipedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_N…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Nahuatl_Wikipedia_2>
Interestingly, the user who is requesting it has been blocked from
it in 2016, as well from other three Wikipedias.
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