Ok! I've marked the meta request as eligible.

2017-07-28 19:19 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>:

> Hoi,
> same here
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> On 28 July 2017 at 18:36, Oliver Stegen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yep, that's what I vote for: +1
>>
>> On 28-Jul-17 18:36, MF-Warburg wrote:
>>
>> To summarize: yes to eligibility and interface translation?
>>
>> 2017-07-21 19:22 GMT+02:00 Oliver Stegen <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> I follow Gerard's line of argumentation and agree that there must be
>>> enough documents in Coptic out there which aren't yet on the web and would
>>> be a great playing field for Coptic Wikisource editors. Hence I'm also in
>>> favour of localization.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>> On 21-Jul-17 14:19, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>>
>>> 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&t
>>>> itle=Wp/cop&wiki=incubatorwiki#distribution_2017-02
>>>> request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/W
>>>> ikipedia_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/W
>>>> ikipedia_Coptic_2
>>>>
>>>> ... But that was long ago, and maybe it's worth reconsidering?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> --
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