Hi all, I would like to propose the approval of the Inari Sámi Wikipedia [1].
The activity has been good and stable all year, with several active contributors [2], and the most used messages have all been translated [3]. We can safely bypass the verification step for this project, since our very own Yupik is one of the active contributors and knows Inari Sámi; in addition, Trond Trosterud (User:Trondtr), who is a professor of Sámi language technology at the Giellatekno department of the University of Tromsø, is also one of the active contributors. Trondtr wrote a request for us to approve the Inari Sámi Wikipedia, which I'm pasting in its entirety below, as it gives a much better overview than what I could: Proposal for a Wikipedia version for Inari Saami > > We hereby propose that the Inari Saami incubator Wikipedia be converted > into a full-fledged Wikipedia, smn.wikipedia.org > > The language community > > Inari Saami has appr. 450 speakers. This makes it a small language > community in Wikipedia terms. It is still worth noting that Inari Saami is > probably one of the most, if not the most successful revitalisation > processes in the world. During the last decades the language community has > organised language nests for a generation of Inari Saami children, and it > has taught the language to key members of the middle generation. The third > phase of the revitalisation, strengthening the literacy of the language, is > now in its initial phase. This phase is named “100 new writers of Inari > Saami” and has “1000 new pages of youth fiction” as one of its subprojects. > The last decade has also seen language technology projects for Inari Saami, > resulting in a spellchecker, comprehensive online dictionaries, keyboards > with predictive writing, and programs for machine translation. > > At present, Inari Saami is one of the four official languages of the Inari > municipality and the Finnish Saami parliament. It is taught at all levels > of instruction from kindergarten up to and including PhD level courses. The > activists behind the “100 new writers of Inari Saami” are planning a > campaign for children in high school to contribute to the Inari Saami > Wikipedia. > > The Wikipedia > > Inari Saami has been in the incubator since 2012, with several quite good > articles from an early stage. In spring 2020, the Inari Saami Language > Association (Anarâškielâ servi) arranged Wikipedia writing workshops. Over > the past six months, the Inari Saami Wikipedia version has seen edits every > day, usually 30–50 edits a day. There are more than 1,000 articles and a > substantial part of these are of good quality. The short articles form good > and coherent article sets. Finnish municipalities, countries of the world, > languages in the Uralic language family, Finnish authors, grammar and > society are all such categories for which there is reasonably good coverage > of short but informative articles. A list has also been made of the > articles that are vital to the Inari Saami Wikipedia. As for localisation, > the basic requirement has been met, as all strings in the set of core > messages have been translated into Inari Saami. > > We expect that a separate Wikipedia for Inari Saami will make it more > visible than it is today, and make its users compare it with the much > larger North Saami Wikipedia. > [1] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/smn [2] https://meta.toolforge.org/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/smn&wiki=incubatorwiki [3] https://robin.toolforge.org/?tool=codelookup&code=smn -- mvh Jon Harald Søby
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