And Amir, I have tried checking some article and they look okay to me. If you can send me some samples then I can approach Khowar Wikipedia Rachitrali <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rachitrali> to clean up such stuff.
Regards Satdeep Gill Punjabi Wikimedians <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians> Member, Affiliations Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee> Member, Language Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee> On 3 March 2017 at 05:48, Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. I have prepared a draft regarding Khowar language, people and > culture: > > Khowar is a Dardic language spoken by Kho people.The language is known by > many other names such as Arniya, Chitrali, Kashkari, Patu. This SOV > language is spoken by the Kho people in Chitral district, Ghizer district > of Gilgit-Baltistan (including the Yasin Valley, Golaghmuli Valley, Phandar > Ishkoman and Gupis), and in parts of Upper Swat. Khowar is spoken as a > second language in the rest of Gilgit and Hunza. Dialects include North > Khowar, South Khowar, East Khowar, and Swat Kwohar, with the North Khowar > considered as the high variety. Kho people use Naskh and Nastaliq variants > of the Arabic script to write Khowar. > > The Kho people (Khowar: کھو, meaning "people"), also known as Chitralis > (چترالي), are a Dardic ethnic group located primarily in South Asia. They > are the predominant ethnic group in the Chitral region of Pakistan. It is > estimated that their current population is approximately 300,000 people, > most of whom live in Pakistan, with a small population living in > Afghanistan. They are mostly Sunni and Ismaili Muslims. > > Kho culture is an ancient culture which places heavy emphasis on poetry, > song, and dance. Folk singers, sitar and reed instrument players are > respected members of the community. Kho people also have a great respect > for law and order. Much of this can be attributed to Chitral being a stable > kingdom for most of its history, where the rule of law and the will of the > ruler came before tribal concepts such as revenge and isolationism. The > festivities are mostly related to agriculture, which reveals the > significance of agriculture for the Kho people. > > First efforts to build a Wikipedia in Khowar language started in 2010. > User:Rachitrali also known as Rehmat Aziz Chitrali has been contributing to > the project since then. Other Khowar speakers joined him and the incubator > project consistently grew in the first 6 months of 2013. The community has > now been consistently contributing since October 2014. Rachitrali > <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:Rachitrali> (5601 edits), > Mirajbibi <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:Mirajbibi> (3138 > edits) and Zaheeruddin25 > <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/user:Zaheeruddin25> (2956 edits) > have been the top contributors. Besides them there are 19 more editors who > made 100 or more contributions to the project. > > -- Vito Genovese > <https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullan%C4%B1c%C4%B1:Vito_Genovese>, > Satdeep Gill > > Regards > Satdeep Gill > > Punjabi Wikimedians <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians> > Member, Affiliations Committee > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee> > Member, Language Committee > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee> > > On 2 March 2017 at 02:06, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> 2017-02-26 16:08 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> >> : >> >>> I haven't checked very thoroughly, but it looks that the current content >>> in the incubator is quite messy - there are a lot of ultra-short atticles >>> about numbers, some pages in English, and some other problems. Do the >>> authors pack to clean that up? I'd be happier of they started this cleanup >>> right now, before approval, domain creation, and import. >>> >> >> Incubator admin StevenJ81 conveyed this your comment to < >> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Community_Po >> rtal#Thanks_.28Wp.2Fkhw.29>. It seems like they are now trying to fix >> it. I will wait to create a bug report until that is solved. >> >> >> >> >>> >>> בתאריך 26 בפבר׳ 2017 01:35 PM, "Milos Rancic" <[email protected]> כתב: >>> >>> So, it's been approved after the first expert confirmed that the >>>> written material is indeed in particular language. Do you want to >>>> proceed with the approval process? (I've marked it as approved on the >>>> page Requests for new languages.) >>>> >>>> Also, may you prepare a couple of paragraphs about Khowar people, >>>> language and culture for the time when the wiki would be created to be >>>> sent on wikimedia-l and on blog.wikimedia.org? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Another linguist has confirmed that the language is indeed khowar. >>>> Hence i >>>> > propose the creation of this project. >>>> > >>>> > Regards >>>> > Satdeep Gill >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > ________________________________ >>>> > From: Henrik Liljegren <[email protected]> >>>> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 1:24:15 PM >>>> > To: Satdeep Gill >>>> > Subject: RE: Khowar Wikipedia analysis >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Hi Satdeep, >>>> > >>>> > It is indeed Khowar that is written in the sample page. >>>> > >>>> > Best, >>>> > >>>> > Henrik >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > From: Satdeep Gill [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> > Sent: 11 February 2017 02:39 >>>> > To: Henrik Liljegren <[email protected]> >>>> > Subject: Khowar Wikipedia analysis >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Hi Henrik, >>>> > >>>> > Khowar Wikipedians have been trying to build a Wikipedia in Khowar >>>> langauge. >>>> > The project, as of now, is at Incubator. Can you confirm if the >>>> language >>>> > written in actually Khowar or something else ? >>>> > >>>> > Here is a list to all the pages in this project: >>>> > >>>> > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Wp/khw/ >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Or just have a look at this random page: >>>> > >>>> > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/khw/الطاف_حسین_حالی >>>> > >>>> > Hoping to hear soon from you. This will help people speaking Khowar >>>> to have >>>> > a separate Wikipedia project. >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > >>>> > Regards >>>> > >>>> > Satdeep Gill >>>> > >>>> > Language Committee >>>> > >>>> > Wikimedia Foundation >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Langcom mailing list >>>> > [email protected] >>>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>>> > >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Langcom mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Langcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> >> >
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