Not quite - I think Wales got involved after I left them a message on Y Caffi (the Welsh village pump). It took a few weeks for a reply, but eventually, Robin Owain rang my office phone and we had a long chat! It's really worth reaching out to these groups so that they know you're there.
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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-lang...
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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