User talk:Grayautumnday

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Thank you!

I briefly “joined” the Ravenstail Weaving Guild - in the same way that I contribute donations to the WF, to the Internet Archive, and Mèdicins Sans Frontiéres. While I do acknowledge that I do hold a bias for promoting the survival of various regions’s indigenous textile traditions, like I am biased towards access to medical treatments being provided to those otherwise unable to access medical help in a natural disaster or pandemic. I believe my bias to be for the preservation of knowledge in forms appropriate to their cultural context.

I have studied many thousands of subjects briefly over several decades, as someone interested enough in information science that I studied it in college for three years before focusing on other fields of study. I’m concerned that there may be a cultural discouragement of any perpetual autodidact from participating in Wikimedia Foundation projects where the participant has at some point spent a few hours reading in depth.

I’m sure that’s not what you meant, and I needed time to process your thoroughly helpful and kind message and think about what exactly my concerns were with the minority aspect of its content that was confusing and mildly dispiriting to me at the time. I still have some reading and thinking and processing to do, but I waited for better detachment from the emotional response I felt to reply… which, appropriately, seems relevant to what I feel was part of the essence of the gift of your time and energy composing your message. Grayautumnday (talk) 00:26, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify: I am not in any way related by ethnicity or adoption to any indigenous culture. Grayautumnday (talk) 00:27, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Erg. I mean indigenous to the continent on which I have lived all my life. Obviously, every human is related to at least one previously indigenous culture somewhere throughout space and time. Grayautumnday (talk) 00:29, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]