I support this too; and the fact that almost all supporters (there are no opposers) on the proposal page are Ghanaians is telling.
I can help fix the technical details of moving content from akwiki to twwiki when the time comes. man. 30. mai 2022 kl. 15:07 skrev Asaf Bartov <[email protected]>: > (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] >> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- mvh Jon Harald Søby
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