Does anyone know a linguist who can help with this? I'm still looking. Sent some emails here and there but a global pandemic is not making things easy...
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:49 AM Amir Sarabadani <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI: The other email sent to this mailing list is not the case I asked > around (and I haven't got any response from the university yet). Also the > top signature there is actually the user behind lrcwiki (you can find his > name in archives). > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 1:02 AM MF-Warburg <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> > > > -- > Amir (he/him) > > -- Amir (he/him)
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