ALPES Ancient Language Promotion, Education and Support
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Proposed User Group: ALPES[edit]
ALPES is a proposed Wikimedia user group, to help Ancient Language Promotion, Education and Support.
Proposed aims[edit]
- Develop links with ancient and minority language groups for content co-operation and production
- Develop better links with user groups working on topics where Classical and Ancient Languages are especially important
- Ensure Wikimedia policies reflect the needs of Classical and Ancient Language Communities, including understanding their cultural importance and usage by minority groups
- Help Classical and Ancient Language wikis fulfill Wikimedia's mission, by creating new, compelling and specialist content
- Help Classical and Ancient Language wikis fulfill Wikimedia's mission by developing and deeping audiences
- Share experience and develop best practice regarding common problems, such as linguistic accuracy and handling modern terminology
- Help Wikimedia provide in-language Classical and Ancient Language teaching materials, such as beginner and intermediate texts, videos and recordings
- Help Wikimedia provide other Classical and Ancient Language teaching materials, especially where these are not freely available.
Steering Group[edit]
- We will need a steering group of at least one person with links to each language community.
- We will be open to users from other Ancient Language wikis and historians and others who use these languages and wish to help.
Languages and their backgrounds[edit]
| Geographical usage | Wiki | WP | Usage notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe, Americas, Global | Latin Wikipedia; Latin Wikisource Latin Wikibooks, Latin Wiktionary | w:Latin | Liturgical, government and education, and official status; vast and varied recorded literature; used for botanical naming and description, zoological naming, and in certain other scientific fields |
| India and some other Asian countries | Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikisource Sanskrit Wiktionary | w:Sanskrit | Literary, social and liturgical language, includes revival efforts and official status, important for several religions and many countries; vast and varied recorded literature |
| Sinophone areas, also in Japan, Korean peninsula and Vietnam | Literary Chinese Wikipedia | w:Literary Chinese | Extremely long usage of written language in the Chinese history and neighboring people; usage declined after 1920s; compulsary subject in some countries; decline in liguistic competence but output still present; vast and varied recorded literature |
| Geographical usage | Wiki | WP | Usage notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Europe | Church Slavonic Wikipedia | w:Church Slavonic | Liturgical language; secular written language in Russia into 1700s |
| India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand | Pali Wikipedia | w:Pali | Buddhist liturgical language, widely studied; large recorded literature |
| Central Europe, Asia | Gothic Wikipedia | w:Gothic language | Historical language with limited corpus |
| North Europe | Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia | w:Old English | Historical language with moderately sized corpus |
Add your user name here to join[edit]
(Please add which Ancient languages or Ancient Language Wikis you work with)
- User:JimKillock --JimKillock (talk) 12:11, 15 September 2021 (UTC) - Latin
- Andrew Dalby (talk) 20:48, 15 September 2021 (UTC) - Latin often; Sanskrit, Anglo-Saxon, Classical Greek occasionally
- AristippusSer (talk) 01:16, 16 September 2021 (UTC) - la, grc, lzh
- Sayant Mahato talk 17:21, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
- --Mizardellorsa (talk) 08:46, 17 September 2021 (UTC) Latin Wikisource
- Andreas Raether (talk) 09:50, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
- NehalDaveND (talk) 11:01, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
- Pavlov2 06:30, 18 September 2021 (UTC)--Literary Chinese
- --Martinus000001 (talk) 10:27, 18 September 2021 (UTC) -- Latin
- Heracletus (talk) 11:17, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
- User:PastelKos --PastelKos (talk) 14:24, 18 September 2021 (UTC) - Ancient Greek
- Giorno2 (talk) 19:14, 18 September 2021 (UTC) - Latein, Altgriechisch (lingvoj latina kaj helena)
- Talondearg (talk) 20:27, 18 September 2021 (UTC) -- Latin, Ancient Greek
- Haoreima (talk) 08:25, 19 September 2021 (UTC) -- Old Manipuri (Ancient Meitei)
- Surekha Kamath (talk) 13:45, 20 September 2021 (UTC) -- Samskrit
- A. Mahoney (talk) 13:15, 21 September 2021 (UTC) -- Latin; sometimes Old English, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek
- Demetrius Talpa (talk) 23 September 2021 (UTC) – Latin
- Alexmar983 The WikiClassics UG will probably focus also on ancient Asian and LATAM culture in the future, everything relate to the past civilizations and archeology, so we welcome all support in that direction.--Alexmar983 (talk) 21:41, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
- Whycantusernamesbe21 (talk) 23:14, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
- Zhaofeng-shu33 (talk) lzh 09:47, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
- Amicus111 (talk) 11:19, 10 January 2022 (UTC) : Middle English and a few edits to Old English.
- Gifnk dlm 2020 From Middle English Wikipedia 📜📖💻 (talk) 18:40, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- ألبرشت شونكه: I use and work with Classical Greek (grc). --ألبرشت شونكه (talk) 22:06, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
- Chinese user; have basic understanding of literary Chinese; learing literary Chinese, Latin, ancient Greek. --魔琴 (talk) 07:10, 17 May 2023 (UTC) grc, la, lzh
Other pages[edit]
- Letter to Wikimedia Board
- Newsletter list (inactive)