Hoi,
Ok let us do this.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 22 January 2016 at 10:03, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> As a followup, it appears like some people aren't waiting for us, which is
> mostly good.
>
> There's something like looks like a MediaWiki installation with _probably_
> something like a Wikipedia:
> http://wiki.uhaan.com/
>
> (It's mentioned on
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#.22Wikipedia_Mongolian_written_in_Mongolian_script.22
> )
>
> The text appears vertically to me in Chrome, but not in Firefox (I think
> it's fixable in Firefox, too, with correct CSS).
>
> A lot of the interface is de-facto translated. Technically, I think that
> they actually modified MediaWiki's translation files for Chinese, but the
> text is Vertical Mongolian. This means that The translation that they did
> should be integrated ASAP with upstream MediaWiki, and when that is done,
> their translatewiki.net statistics will quickly go high, probably making
> them pass the localization percentage test.
>
> So it's _almost_ at a state where we could not only declare it eligible,
> but approve moving it out of Incubator to its own full domain.
>
> In case it wasn't clear, I definitely support making it eligible. (But of
> course, incubator activity will have to be measured separately again.)
>
>
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> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> “We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
>
> 2016-01-17 21:57 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>:
>
>> Milos, azb.wikipedia.org became live a few months ago, and it's pretty
>> active ;)
>>
>> The current code for the Cyrillic Mongolian Wikipedia is mn, not mo (mo
>> is Moldovan, which is also a mess, but a different one).
>>
>> To the main issue of the thread: I totally support the creation of a
>> Wikipedia in the vertical Mongolian script. To the best of my knowledge,
>> that's the script used in Inner Mongolia, _although_ I don't know how
>> widely. I suspect that it's used in print, but that its web presence is
>> very small and this Wikipedia may turn out to be one of the very first
>> websites in it. Whoever does it, will probably have to break a lot of new
>> ground technically, It's not a blocker, but it is a thing to be aware of.
>> On of the first things to do would be to install the vertical MediaWiki
>> support somewhere on a Wikimedia cluster; I think that the ASL wiki is on a
>> separate site somewhere. But this, again, is a technicality, not a blocker.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>> “We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
>>
>> 2016-01-17 18:49 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> On Jan 17, 2016 16:20, "Michael Everson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > On 17 Jan 2016, at 07:35, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > > There are several projects waiting for "the nod" and, it is not
>>> happening.
>>> >
>>> > Which are these?
>>>
>>> I know for one, but the context is quite different and I am pretty well
>>> introduced into situation.
>>>
>>> It's about Azerbaijani written in Perso-Arabic script.
>>>
>>> Young Azerbaijanis from Iran prefer Latin script. Literacy rate among
>>> older is very low. Azerbaijani Wikipedia allows articles in both scripts.
>>>
>>> But, most importantly, we have Iranian Azerbaijani among highly involved
>>> Wikimedians (a steward, member of the Election committee etc.), Mardetanha.
>>> His close friends (thus, Iranians, as well) actually lead Azerbaijani
>>> Wikipedia. Thus, asking for a new project on such basis is much more about
>>> POV-pushing than allowing a group to have a Wikipedia in their native
>>> written language.
>>>
>>> If something has changed and the core of Iranian Azerbaijani Wikimedians
>>> are in favor of creating Azerbaijani Wikipedia in Arabic script, I will
>>> support it.
>>>
>>> In contrast to this, the admin of the present Mongolian Wikipedia
>>> strongly supports creation of "Inner Mongolian Wikipedia", as well as I
>>> didn't see any objection by any Mongolian Wikipedian. Obviously, because
>>> there are deeper cultural differences between them than between
>>> Azerbaijanis.
>>>
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