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For the things we could do, I quote form other people: * encourage Wikisource, Commons, Wiktionary as primary projects for new/endangered languages. You could scan books or documents if the language is written, or record audio/interviews and put that on Commons if t the language is just oral. or we could do both. * we can work on a "kickstart Wikisource" workflow, we are alreading discussing this on the Wikisource mailing list (Ganesh and other Nepalese folks are interested in developing a Nepalese Wikisource). * we can work on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary and try to takle the huge challenge of a real semantic wiktionary using Wikidata. That's a tough one, but i can't wait it to happen.
All these 3 points are mid-term and reachable. as others said, they are just tools, and for preserving a language, not make it survive.
Aubrey
(sorry for poor english, just before coffee)
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
This is not quite correct. It's very hard, but possible. But Wikimedia alone cannot do it. Wikimedia can be one of the tools that are used by the cultural elite, which Milos brought up. Each of these languages needs people like [[Pompeu Fabra]] and [[Vuk Stefanović Karadžić]] and, dare I say, [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]]. That's the sine qua non. Wikimedia is just a tool - a very important one, but not the main one.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014-04-22 14:20 GMT+03:00 Ting Chen wing.philopp@gmx.de:
Hello Milos,
welcome back.
Basically I agree with your attitude, with one difference:
I don't think that anyone can help languages survive. What we can do, is to help conserve them.
Greetings Ting
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