Yup, I'll do it as soon as I clear up the namespace bit. The namespace
translations they supplied for the talk spaces seem incredibly long, so I
would like to be sure it's correct from  the beginning.

ons. 30. okt. 2019 kl. 02:06 skrev MF-Warburg <[email protected]>:

> 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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