Can it go ahead? The request page on Meta at least is complete with the settings already, I think.
Am Di., 29. Sept. 2020 um 07:55 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen < [email protected]>: > Hoi, > What I like about this project is that there is a plan to grow this wiki. > Everyone gets involved including people of a school attending age. As a > result even with the low numbers of people speaking the language there is a > real chance that it will actually be useful not only for reading but also > for promoting language skills. > > I do approve. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 10:58, Kimberli Mäkäräinen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> If I may, I second the approval of the Inari Saami Wikipedia. Of course, >> my vote can be discarded since I'm involved in the project, but even if I >> weren't, I think this project should be approved since the quality of many >> articles is high enough that I use them as the source articles when >> creating articles into Northern Saami via translation. >> >> -K >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of Jon >> Harald Søby <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:16 PM >> *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee < >> [email protected]> >> *Subject:* [Langcom] Proposed approval of Inari Sámi Wikipedia >> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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