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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Langcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > -- mvh Jon Harald Søby
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