[Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

Heya,
Errr.. may I intrude?
There are several people on this list who are illiterate in their mother
tongue. I know one personally. I myself fall under this category. Being a
Tamilian, presently living in TN, I am able to contribute to the English
versions of articles and at the most Hindi.
Re,
Srikanth.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com>wrote:

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>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ravi shankar said:
>>
>>> If your ambition is to teach the mother tongues for the convent educated
>>> minority English speaking Indians through a Wiki project and then make them
>>> contribute in Indic language Wikipedias, it may never happen. I am not even
>>> sure if it fits inside Wikipedia's mission.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yes. that is true.  I do not forsee such a thing happening for Indic
>> wikis. :)
>>
>>
>> Is Gerard is trying to convey the idea of *Mother Language illiteracy? *Remember
>> by illiteracy of a language, we mean the inability *to read or write*(rather than speaking) that specific language. I must say Mother Language
>> illiteracy is rising in Indian cities and in some states (for example,
>> Kerala).
>>
>> In fact if you go through the discussions that I am sharing with you
>> (about different language wiki communities), many Indic language
>> wikipedians are also raising the same concern.
>>
>> I guess my point is to distinguish between illiteracy and non-use or low
> use (in reading and writing), which is more my personal situ on Bengali,
> Hindi, Marathi.
>
> So I feel like there may be three or more categories of persons for each
> language:
>
> -Speakers who read and write in that lang
> -Speakers who don't read and write in that lang (non or low users)
> -Speakers who don't know how to read and write in that lang (illiterate,
> although I don't like the word)
>
> And agree with Ravi that it would be hard to get both those who are not
> literate in a language or low users of it to contribute in that language.
> For example, I would be reluctant to contribute in the languages I speak,
> but don't write or read in everyday, even though I am technically literate
> in them.
>
> Cheers
> Bishakha
>
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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