Not directly related but we have failed to impart the knowledge that creating a Wikipedia in your language is not the only way and not the best way in many cases for small language preservation and revitalization.
I hope we can build a robust onboarding experience for different languages based on their context. Best Satdeep On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 6:35 AM Kimberli Mäkäräinen < [email protected]> wrote: > Moi, > > If the Tundra (ykg) or Forest Yukaghir (yux) get interested in starting a > wikimedia project in their language, I'll be happy to reconsider, but as it > stands, this is unlikely since there are few active speakers of either > language. I hope that someone restarts the Luri projects again, but not the > way it has been done so far. > > -K > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, July 1, 2021 8:22 AM > *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee <[email protected] > > > *Subject:* [Langcom] Re: Some housekeeping > > Hoi, > I take it that you mean that they are not eligible. For me that means that > we will not approve at a later date. > > The proposals in your mail.. OK > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 at 04:32, Kimberli Mäkäräinen < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hei! Sorry for the long mail. > > Since the Northern Luri wp was closed, I think it would make sense to > reject the remaining Northern Luri proposal on meta: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Northern_Lurish > . Also the "Sumerian" incubator (Wp/sux) is back and should be nuked > again and this request rejected > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Shumerian> > . > > This Wiktionary has no proposal > <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wt/yux>, but it was > created by a notorious "Wiki hijacker" (to use a term from last week's > Arctic Knot conference) who did not know the languages he was supposedly > saving so I say nuke it. The wp version of this has already been nuked. > > Other proposals that would be sensible to reject: > > 1. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Ter_Sami > 2. > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Tundra_Yukaghir > > > This proposal for Norn was rejected since it's extinct and has very few > written sources > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Norn>, > which makes me wonder if this is written in actual Norn or some version of > Nynorn or some other language: > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wp/nrn > > I think that the Northern Saami wiktionary project should probably also be > nuked and buried as a lot of it was created by someone with no grasp of the > language (cf. "Wiki hijacker"), but I'll ask around in the community if > there is any reason they think it should be saved. > > mvh. > -K > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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