Not that I want to re-open that very old can of worms, but I firmly believe that dead languages should only get a Wikisource and/or a Wiktionary. A Wikipedia on a language that no living soul has native competence in is ludicrous, and, yes, this includes Latin.
MF-Warburg <[email protected]>, 23 Kas 2020 Pzt, 02:53 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > Ugh. In that case I propose to deny eligibility (and then to get rid of > the Incubator pages). > > Am Mo., 23. Nov. 2020 um 01:10 Uhr schrieb Kimberli Mäkäräinen < > [email protected]>: > >> It's just another one of these "these words don't exist in this language >> so we're going to borrow all of them from Russian" projects, which they >> even state on their page "Also because all words are not documented in >> kamassian, all missing words we loaned from the russian language." >> >> https://kamassian.webnode.fi/information/ >> >> That's not revitalizing a language, it's making a mockery of it. It's >> also the MO used in all the other small Finno-Ugric language incubator >> projects (or borrowing words from Finnish). Here's another one that he >> works on (https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/yrk/Main_Page). The >> front page is in Russian except for a few words of Nenets. >> >> The fact that they couldn't wait for even approval does not also bode >> well. >> >> -K >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of >> MF-Warburg <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Sunday, November 22, 2020 7:14 PM >> *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee < >> [email protected]> >> *Subject:* [Langcom] Wikipedia Kamassian >> >> Here is an interesting request: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kamassian >> >> They already created some pages on Incubator: >> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/xas/%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9 >> >> >> "The last native speaker of the Kamassian dialect, Klavdiya Plotnikova, >> died in 1989. Kamassian was spoken in Russia, north of the Sayan Mountains, >> by Kamasins. There is an attempted revival of Kamassian with sligthly less >> than 10 people involved" - >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamassian_language >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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