Anyone willing to write a blog post about Kabiye? On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:21 AM, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote: > I informed the community about the approval. Some configuration details are > still missing, I'll file the bug when they have added them. > > 2017-02-28 19:17 GMT+01:00 Oliver Stegen <[email protected]>: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I've received the evaluation of a Kabiye language expert, Prof. Dr. Cecile >> Padayodi. She writes: >> >> "I read a few of the articles and as a mother tongue speaker of the Kabiye >> language and also a linguist and a translator, I find that the orthography >> has been applied quite consistently. There are a few inconsistencies here >> and there, but that should not prevent the reader from understanding what is >> being said." >> >> She sent more details on individual words but unless you insist, I won't >> send it all. >> >> As I'm currently in rural Tanzania on a consulting trip with a full >> schedule and unreliable internet access, I would ask one of you to take the >> necessary steps to approve kbp:wp - thanks! >> >> Best wishes, >> Oliver >> >> >> >> On 08-Feb-17 20:09, Milos Rancic wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Oliver Stegen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I've made the request [1] for a wikipedia in Kabiye [2] eligible. It's a >> Niger-Congo language spoken by 975,000 people in Togo [3] (plus a few more >> in Benin and Ghana). What is more, it's been active on the Incubator for a >> while [4] and may even be ready for approval [5]. I've started to put my >> feelers out for an independent scholar to verify the content (no leads >> yet, >> though). If I don't hear a 'no', I'll intensify my search for a scholar / >> Kabiye language expert after the 7-day deadline, i.e. from 16 February. >> >> >> [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kabye >> [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabye_language >> [3]https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kbp >> [4]https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kbp >> >> [5]https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/kbp&wiki=incubatorwiki >> >> Thanks, Oliver! I would encourage every LangCom member with enough of >> Wikimedia experience and enough linguistic confidence to follow Oliver >> and myself in making eligible obviously valid requests. >> >> Oliver, there is one more page which needs an update [1], but I will >> for sure check always check if you forgot it or not. >> >> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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