The bug for this wiki can now be created as well (once the settings
discussions on https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/szy are
finished).

Am Mo., 21. Okt. 2019 um 01:11 Uhr schrieb MF-Warburg <
[email protected]>:

> 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
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