As this language has not a single documented word that can be used to translate 
the UI and no native speakers left to create these words (this is not the job 
of outsiders), it will never be a viable project.

Even a simple task like creating articles on the countries of the world is 
impossible, because the names of all of these countries simply don't exist in 
Kamassian. The 1600+ documented, actual Kamassian words could be taken to 
Wiktionary and documents when allowed to Wikisource. By taking words, syntax, 
etc. from Russian or other languages and claiming it as Kamassian, this will 
have a negative impact on any computational linguistics applications that use 
this material, etc. Claiming that Kamassian articles can be written based on 
having another Finno-Ugric language as one's mother tongue is like saying one 
can write articles in Hindi because one's mother tongue is English.

I'm concerned that this does not seem to be understood, especially considering 
that this has already occurred with other languages that non-native speakers 
have taken upon themselves to "revive". There are already a number of incubator 
projects that need to be deleted because the community refuses to touch them 
because of the project's low quality thanks to non-natives with good 
intentions. There is, as we speak, a massive community-led effort to rid the 
Scots Wikipedia of the contributions of a non-native outsider who claimed to 
know the language. It is not mean to say so; it is a reality that needs to be 
understood.

-K

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From: Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of Valtteri Lahti 
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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 9:34 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Langcom] Wikipedia Kamassian

Hello, does the kamassian wiki pages have to be deleted? The russian loans are 
very small in number because 1600+ words are documented. Also even if it cant 
get accepted, instead of deleting all pages can it be left like the enets 
wikiincubator, people can see the pages but is rejected. -ValtteriLahti12

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