(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> wrote:
Hello,
We have received a request for closure of the Nahuatl Wikipedia:
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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