Looks good to me, and kind of corresponds to my proposal from a few weeks ago to accept academics' involvement in an Incubator as verification.
Thanks for handling the other recent verifications, too! I tried emailing several institutions in August and got no response, and you apparently were luckier. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore בתאריך יום ה׳, 17 באוק׳ 2019 ב-0:15 מאת Jon Harald Søby < [email protected]>: > Hello all, > > I'm on a streak now. Very relevant YouTube link > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM>. > > I reached out Dr. Yuan-chao Tung, who is the director of the Center for > Indigenous Studies at National Taiwan University in order to help find > someone who can verify the language for the Sakizaya Wikipedia [1]. He > referred me to an Austronesian languages expert who basically said that it > would be difficult to find an *independent* expert because all of the > scholars who are experts in Sakizaya are already contributors to it! That's > more than good enough of a verification for me. :-) > > Their activity [2] has been steady for a long time, with plenty of > contributors. The localization [3] is done for the most used messages (they > have actually translated around *6,000 MediaWiki messages* – 10 times > what's required! MediaWiki core is 74 % finished, and several extensions > are translated as well). Note that their language code, [szy], is very new > – it was approved in January of this year. Before that, they used the > language code [ais], which has now been deprecated in ISO 639. It's a long > story. Until today [4] the language code [ais] was still used for Sakizaya > in MediaWiki, but me and Nikerabbit (I did the easy parts, Nikerabbit the > hard parts) changed it to the correct [szy]. > > Something to celebrate about this is that it will be the first Wikipedia > in an indigenous language of Taiwan. Taiwan is considered the birthplace of > the Austronesian language family, and it is there that the variety of > Austronesian languages is greatest – out the primary branches of > Austronesian languages, all but one (the Malayo-Polynesian languages) are > spoken exclusively in Taiwan. So this will be a nice extension of > Wikimedia's language diversity. > > Another interesting thing about this language is that it doesn't seem to > use capital letters at the start of sentences, but only in proper nouns. > This will be the second language Wikipedia (after Lojban) to need to have > the $wgCapitalLinks setting set to 'false'. :-) > > [1] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/szy > [2] > https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/szy&wiki=incubatorwiki > [3] https://tools.wmflabs.org/robin/?tool=codelookup&code=szy > [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T174601 > > -- > mvh > Jon Harald Søby > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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