Dear Gerard, Thank you for this email. I will let you know within a week if there is a problem from the side of the board. Thank you (and everyone) once again for your efforts. I am happy to hear that we are leveraging our knowledge of different languages to also make things like searching commons in native language possible :)
Jan-Bart de Vreede Chair Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation On 12 Nov 2013, at 10:02, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi Jan-Bart > > When a new language is deemed "eligible" we, the language committee, inform > the chair of the board because he or she has a week to indicate that the > board does not agree with our recommendation. When the chair of the board > does not reply a bug in bugzilla will be asking for the new language. > > At this time I ask formal permission for Ottoman Turkish to be exclusively > used for Wikidata and its applications. Ottoman Turkish is a historic > language but with information in this language we will be able to include the > original name of something in an info-box in any Wikipedia. > > Jan-Bart we are likely to make requests like this for many living languages > in the near future as well because it is expected that in 6 months time > development starts of integrating Wikidata to Commons. This will make it > possible to optimally search for pictures in the native language of the > children of this world. To a large extend this is already possible for the > "big"languages like Dutch. (It only requires a relatively easy hack for this > to happen.... Interested? ) > > Thanks, > Gerard
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