Yeah, there are no objections, so I think we can go for it. I can create
the task now.

man. 5. okt. 2020 kl. 07:27 skrev MF-Warburg <[email protected]>:

> 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
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