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
>>
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