(from my observation of the Ghanaian community, with which I've had regular contact over the years, I support this.)
A. Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:56 AM Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > See > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Akan_Wikipedia_2 > > I think that the proposal is sensible: > * ak is a macro language code ( https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/aka ), > which includes Twi (tw) and Fante (fat). Avoiding macro language codes is > in line with our general policy. > * Anecdotally, over the years, lots of people from Ghana told me about > their confusion about where they should write, and in which variety. > * Less anecdotally, there has been good activity in the incubator and > translatewiki in Fante (fat): > translatewiki: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:Fat > incubator: > https://meta.toolforge.org/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/fat&wiki=incubatorwiki > * There are fewer than 600 articles in ak.wikipedia, and it won't be too > hard to move the good content to tw.wikipedia. > * There's much more activity in tw.wikipedia than in ak.wikipedia: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Akan_Wikipedia_2/activity > * There have been no objections on the discussion page since it was > created a month ago. > > So I'd suggest approving that. I'd further suggest removing Akan as a > language for MediaWiki localization: there are almost no translations into > it, and almost all of those that exist are identical to the translations of > the same strings into Twi ( > https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?filter=translated&action=page&language=ak&group=mediawiki > ) > > All that said, I have been talking a lot to editors from Ghana in the last > few years, and some of them are personal friends, so it's possible I have a > conflict of interest or an incomplete understanding of how things work > there. Other opinions are welcome. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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