Agree with Michael. Regards,
Karen Broome > On Apr 4, 2017, at 5:11 AM, Michael Everson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here are some of my observations: > > 1) As the biography tag notes, the article > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehmat_Aziz_Chitrali reads like a résumé. It > has a lot of red links to his “notable works”. Check out the other languages > it’s available in. A stub in Azerbaijani, Scots, Swedish, Fijian Hindi, and > Waray; I didn’t check the links in Arabic script. He hotlinks Associate > Fellowship to Honorary Degree and those things aren’t the same. > > 2) The Khowar Academy page links the Academy’s home page to sites.google.com > which isn’t very home-pagey. I mean, there’s no contact information for the > Academy. It publishes books by RAC, so it says, on Scribd. > > 3) The Khowar Language page gives a sample of a poem and makes sure to note > the translator’s name and link to his article. It lists TV channels. I don’t > know what languages they broadcast in. Khowar? > > 4) The Khowar Alphabet page… is not reliable. Once again it produces RAC’s > translation of a verse of poetry, naming the translatr. It also reproduces an > alphabet chart by him with 58 letters. It is poorly produced, attributed to > RAC, and seems to map to the Wikitable list in the article. The article > points to a (verified) Unicode proposal > http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06149-bashir-prop.pdf to add 4 characters for > Knowar, NONE OF WHICH APPEAR in this article OR in the alphabet list at the > top of the Khowar Wikipedia. > > Look, I’ve been accused of “coflict of interest” about the Wiki article about > me. I wouldn’t criticize RAC out of spite. (My page is really out of date in > terms of Evertype’s publishing activities which *are* notable in a > multilingual sense.) But nothing in these four pages gives me confidence that > there is a community of editors working on a Khowar Wikipedia. > > My recommendation is that LangCom tell him that his project will be dormant > until we have confidence that 10 verifiable users are working on it. That’s a > larger number than we normally give, but then it looks like there has been > cheating going on. Even if there hasn’t been, the look is enough. RAC should > work with Wikimedia Pakistan to get a grant to do a Translatathon or whatever > they’re called, and get a real community going. But linguistically, I want to > know why he’s not using the Unicode letters added specifically for Khowar. > > That’s my view. > Michael Everson > > >> On 4 Apr 2017, at 06:17, Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Read the email from Rehmat Aziz Chitrali >> >> Regards >> Satdeep Gill >> >> Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation >> Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians >> Treasurer, Affiliations Committee >> Member, Language Committee >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Rehmat Aziz Chitrali <[email protected]> >>> Date: 4 April 2017 at 3:28:28 AM GMT+2 >>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Khowar Wikipedia >>> Reply-To: Rehmat Aziz Chitrali <[email protected]> >>> >>> Respected sir, as you know that I am test admin and tirelessly working >>> since 2008 for creating wikipedia in khowar, i have contributed more than >>> 7000 edits in this project, i have translated most used interface msgs for >>> this project. We are using Internet cafe to write articles for this >>> project, if somebody is also using the same IP and contributing in khowar >>> wiki project, then this is not my fault. On the basis of one IP address one >>> project can not be declined after its approval, this is not fair, this is >>> discrimination with the khowar community. The langcom to check these things >>> before approval and before Phabricator task, we have already received many >>> congratulations messeges for the approval of this project. This is >>> embarrassing for the community. After approval we have issued to press >>> release. I request you all to restore the phabricator task to its original >>> position subject to the condition that the khowar community contribute more >>> articles in khowar language within one month and complete the task, I >>> assure you sir, trust me and give one month time to engage more regular >>> contributors to complete the task. Your kind cooperation will be highly be >>> appreciated. Please restore the Phabricator Task to its original position >>> subject to condition that the Khowar Community shall contribute more >>> ariticles and complete the task within one month Sharp. cheers and Regards >>> >>> With Profound Regards >>> >>> Rehmat Aziz Chitrali >>> Test Admin @KhowarWikipeid Incubator project >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
