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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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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