I agree with approval. Am Do., 17. Okt. 2019 um 18:10 Uhr schrieb Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]>:
> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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