Am Fr., 9. Okt. 2020 um 02:20 Uhr schrieb Amir Sarabadani <
[email protected]>:

> Thanks.
> Beside the general note that I'm requesting for closure not because I
> don't understand the wiki (I don't understand Chinese Wikipedia, I'm not
> requesting for its closure though, even several Iranian languages like ckb
> that I don't understand, I'm actually helping them to get on their feet,
> like see my bot's edits on ckbwiki
> <https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%AA:%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%B4%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%8C%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86/Dexbot>)
> but I'm requesting on the grounds that no Lur person I have talked to (from
> diverse backgrounds, ages, rural/urban backgrounds, different regions,
> etc.) couldn't understand the wiki. Actually fun fact, my then-roommate in
> university dorm is Lur and from Khorramabad and he was one of the first
> ones who said he couldn't understand it. Laki and Luri Khorramabadi are
> completely different things.
>


Re your general note - that should be clear to everyone and I hope that the
proponents of lrc.wikipedia don't come up with more such nonsense which
only makes them look bad.


> Regarding renaming the wiki: (My sysadmin hat on) It's basically
> impossible. We only renamed be-x-old to be-tarask and it still causing
> issues (last month all interwiki links to be-tarask broke), I have some
> plans to improve it, especially handling of discrepancies between the
> dbname and dns name but it's going to take a while. Also a rename is only
> redirecting the traffic from dns, the database name stays the same (and
> it's definitely unchangeable for lots of reasons, let me know if you want
> to know more). So if we rename lrc.wikipedia.org to lki.wikipedia.org, it
> still will be named lrcwiki in the database and prevents us from having an
> actual lrcwiki if the time comes.
> (My sysadmin hat off). I don't understand the content but I have a feeling
> it's not very much salvageable even for the lkiwiki (Imagine pretending to
> be German Wikipedia but actually being written in Dutch, it shows itself in
> the content too).
>
> Thank you for reading my long emails :D
>

The easiest solution for a "rename" would probably be to create a new wiki
and do an import. But we are probably far away from this being necessary
here.
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