Hoi,
I am all in favour of having a Wikisource to start off with. When they have
reasonable activity and a substantial part of the user interface localised,
I would even consider a Wikipedia.
Having a Wikisource is something I want to be liberal with; it is a great
way of producing tangible results for a language and it is very much a
project aimed at editors.. not much traffic to be expected. The work though
may be picked up elsewhere.
So yes to a Wikisource and yes to localisation.. Wikipedia maybe when there
is sustained activity.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 21 July 2017 at 09:46, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apparently there is some activity in the Coptic Incubator Wikipedia:
> portal: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cop
> activity: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&;
> title=Wp/cop&wiki=incubatorwiki#distribution_2017-02
> request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_
> languages/Wikipedia_Coptic_3
>
> And there's a request to translate MediaWiki into this language:
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Incubator:
> Community_Portal&oldid=4099303#Translatewiki
>
> However, translatewiki and UniversalLanguageSelector are not yet enabled
> in this language. As far as I know, the language is not exactly alive as a
> modern language. It's definitely eligible for Wikisource, so it can be in
> the UniversalLanguageSelector (although I need to make sure what is the
> autonym - "ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ"?).
>
> But what about a Wikipedia, and what about translating the MediaWiki user
> interface strings into it? These would probably be revivalist projects
> because there are no L1 speakers.
>
> If it's not eligible, I'd rather not enable it on translatewiki.
> Personally, I would support marking it as eligible, but are there other
> opinions?
>
> It was already rejected in 2008:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/
> Wikipedia_Coptic_2
>
> ... But that was long ago, and maybe it's worth reconsidering?
>
> Thank you!
>
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