I don't think it would be losing focus as it fits directly in the mission of the movement to share the sum of human knowledge, since languages are knowledge in themselves.
Yes I agree that Wikiversity could be used for that, but this project really needs support to get to current standards of "online courses", and I don't see much push in that direction. JP On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:23 PM James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > Languages are taught by authoritative dictionaries (after people, and > ahead of almost all other similar reference books.) > > Wiktionary has multiple teaching functions whether we want it to or > not: > https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/efe362e1-fe80-4c90-bc1e-4ab2d9bbae20/1/ > > Have you seen how much Wiktionary has been growing in Brazil? > https://blog.searchmetrics.com/us/2018/02/14/seo-world-rankings-2018/ > > Amir, you know it would not be losing focus because of what you said > in your talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_xJaqQV71s > > Best regards, > Jim > > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Amir E. Aharoni > <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > Well... Not that teaching languages—big or small—is bad, but wouldn't we > be > > losing focus if we got into it? > > > > Wikibooks and Wikiversity can theoretically be places for teaching. Are > > they good at it? Probably not. Should they be made better? Maybe. > > > > בתאריך 27 בפבר׳ 2018 19:52, "Jean-Philippe Béland" < > jpbel...@wikimedia.ca> > > כתב: > > > > Amir, > > > > I agree with everything you said, especially that languages are knowledge > > in themselves, but I must say that Wikimedia is not doing much in an > effort > > to teach languages to people. Why isn't there more effort at the WMF or > as > > a movement to try to develop a platform to teach languages? > > > > Jean-Philippe Béland > > Vice President and Programs Coordinator, Wikimedia Canada > > Coordinator, Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User > Group > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
