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Hi Peter, sorry to bother you again, have you considered requesting a new Wikimedia Project about recording oral knowledge/traditions? While it may take some time for attitudes both in broader scholarship and at enwiki to change, that could be productive in the meantime. Imo it's a massive gap that's indicative of the Wikimedia movement catering primarily to Western audiences. All the best, Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 18:20, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
- See m:Yoruba Oral Tradition Project for instance, a wiki for that Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 19:00, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
No, I'll request a new WikiProject only once we have editors actively doing that. That is, so many that it requires a project to coordinate them. I don't currently see that, but I'm also currently a bit removed from Wikimedia projects due to real-life incidents. --Pgallert (talk) 20:28, 22 May 2026 (UTC)
- "Incidents" doesn’t sound good, I’m sorry to hear that. Re projects, there are/have been lots of isolated projects, events, and movements that may benefit from some sort of centralisation/coordination (these are from the first 200 results searching
oral tradition
on meta, there are over 1000 results):- m:Oral History Project South Sudan 2024
- m:WikiArabia 2019/Program/Discussion Sourcing in Wikipedia : Aural knowledge, Oral tradition?
- m:WikiConference India 2011/Submissions/Enriching Oral Traditions
- m:Audiovisuals of Yoruba Indigenous Vocations
- m:Fante Wikimedians Community/Fante Oral Heritage Project 2025
- m:Oral Culture Transcription Toolkit
- m:WikiCite 2016/Proposals/Citations for oral sources (which you know)
- m:Needs assessment for documentation and revitalization of Indic languages using Wikimedia projects/Executive report
- m:Indic Oral Culture Wiki/Meetups
- m:Sindhi archiving project
- m:Malayalam Mala Project
- m:PhilWiki Community/Engagement Survey, 2025/Philippine Wikimedia Conference Strategic Direction#How do we ensure the inclusion of oral traditions, local literature, and marginalized knowledge systems in Wikimedia projects?
- m:Arts & Folklore 2025 (Tanzania)
- Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore
- m:Wiki Language and Culture Preservation Madagascar
- m:Community Resources and Partnerships/India Rapid Project/Documenting the Folk Arts of North Karnataka
- m:Wiki Kwara Odyssey Project/Program (activity no. 4)
- m:Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Digitizing Hausa Oral Traditions:An Open-Access Collection of Folktales, Proverbs, and Folk Songs (ID: 23653490)
- m:Wiki Loves Tuluvas Living and Cultural Heritage/Events
- m:Nigeria National Funding Program/A Sulaiman Z/Documenting Hausa Local Knowledge and Oral Histories in Kano State
- m:Wiki Loves forklore 2025 in the Fulfulde community
- m:Preserving the Folklore of Northeast Nigeria through Wiki Loves Folklore 2026
- m:Language Diversity Conference
- m:Wiki Niger Delta Heritage Collective
- m:Wiki Loves Village
- m:Wiki Loves Living Heritage
- Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 11:43, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
- I didn't mean tragedies, there is just an awful lot going on. No need to worry, but thank you anyway. Eventually I'll find the time again for projects. --Pgallert (talk) 17:27, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
- No worries. I will no doubt be back to pester you again in a few months time lol Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 17:44, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
- (there is also m:Afrika Baraza. Hope all goes well) Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 16:48, 25 May 2026 (UTC)
- (also, idk if you're interested but there's another RFL for Kwanyama where the idea of an Ovambo Wikipedia has been floated, but to do that we'd need to ask SIL to merge the ISO codes for Kwanyama and Ondonga into Ovambo. I'd do it myself but I'm not familiar enough with the language and linguistics in general, and idk what effects this would have outside Wikipedia) Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 23:26, 26 May 2026 (UTC)
- Sorry but I've asked m:User:Olaniyan Olushola [1], couldn't help myself :) Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 13:56, 4 July 2026 (UTC)
- I didn't mean tragedies, there is just an awful lot going on. No need to worry, but thank you anyway. Eventually I'll find the time again for projects. --Pgallert (talk) 17:27, 23 May 2026 (UTC)