I have checked multiple pages and they are definitely not Urdu and look Saraiki to me. Saraiki is similar to Punjabi so I can understand it and confirm that this looks legitimate to me.
P.S. Western Punjabi and Saraiki are pretty similar and my personal view is that this should be accommodated on one Wikipedia but the sociology-political situation in Pakistan calls for a separate Wikipedia for Saraiki. Regards Satdeep Gill Program Officer GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 20:11, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote: > I have put a query to the community at > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/skr/%D9%BE%DB%81%D9%84%D8%A7_%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%AA#Approval_issue_for_the_community. > I will post links at Incubator's Community Portal and at the Meta request > page. > > Steven > > Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of Steven > White <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 8, 2019 9:55 AM > *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee <[email protected] > > > *Subject:* Re: [Langcom] Wikipedia in Saraiki > > Gerard, I'm sympathetic to that position. But I don't see any provision > for a ban in the policy, and LangCom doesn't own Incubator. So I don't > quite know how or where to initiate a discussion to propose a ban. I can, > however, indefinitely block as an Incubator administrator, as deliberately > creating content to pass it off as the wrong language is, if nothing else, > a form of vandalism or disruptive editing. > > In the meantime, I intend to go over to that test project and ask them > what is going on. Our general rules require that. > > Steven > > Sent from Outlook > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2Fweboutlook&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc202ec9d3d3443df77f608d74bf78912%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637061398835945899&sdata=UkHqlEl4Mg%2FvP3vsL9g2vF9esJV67%2FgR%2FDMH5W8bQmQ%3D&reserved=0> > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of Gerard > Meijssen <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 8, 2019 2:03 AM > *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee <[email protected] > > > *Subject:* Re: [Langcom] Wikipedia in Saraiki > > Hoi, > No we have an indefinite ban on incubator for the people posing as if they > speak a language they do not speak. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 22:25, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote: > > This really upsets me. But if the content is in Urdu, then (a) we ask > what's going on, (b) we don't approve, and (c) in all likelihood, we > propose an indef block on Incubator, given that many of the same characters > were involved in a problem around the Khowar project a couple of years back. > > Steven > > Sent from Outlook > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faka.ms%2Fweboutlook&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc202ec9d3d3443df77f608d74bf78912%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637061398835955907&sdata=AJBLBGY2sgQ9KtdhxUUhhCkJkcaqLrf78ZERgqWDo1I%3D&reserved=0> > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon > Harald Søby <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, October 7, 2019 5:33 AM > *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee <[email protected] > > > *Subject:* [Langcom] Wikipedia in Saraiki > > Hi all! > > I wanted to let you know that I'm in touch with an expert with regards to > verifying Wikipedia in Saraiki > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fincubator.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWp%2Fskr&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc202ec9d3d3443df77f608d74bf78912%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637061398835955907&sdata=6VoBoJ7yjRSReIo%2BTJUzDjdthhaz6XBZSr9tbeS7pC4%3D&reserved=0> > (skr). It was previously mentioned by Seven in an email titled "Final > approval for four projects" from August 16. > > The expert checked one page and said it is in Urdu and not Saraiki > (although it is *about* Saraiki topics). He said he will get back to me > to check more pages in a week or two. > > However, after he said that, I've checked several pages with Google > Translate from Urdu to English, and they all produce very legible content > (for Google Translate). That makes me suspicious that maybe all the content > is in fact in Urdu – if it was in fact in a smaller language, I would > expect a certain amount of words that Google Translate just doesn't > understand. > > So the question is, what do we do if it turns out that most/all content is > in Urdu? > > -- > mvh > Jon Harald Søby > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wikimedia.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flangcom&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc202ec9d3d3443df77f608d74bf78912%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637061398835965916&sdata=evKTvHlBRdygOTnWC5IDUCsIZ93%2FHSa3JJ9pvXUWSWY%3D&reserved=0> > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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