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.
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