Hello Jon,

I am impressed by the quality and precision in the answer made by Samuel
and agree with you that they made a good achievement so far (Seeing the
activity level and links). If the question is approval of "guwwikinews",
then I think we can move forward with it. What do other members think?

Best regards,

Anass

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:09 PM Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]> wrote:

> In my opinion Samuel has answered the questions adequately. And even
> though the number of small edits could hopefully be reduced, I still think
> the overall efforts and results achieved already speak for themselves. Can
> we move forward with this?
>
> man. 6. mar. 2023 kl. 14:56 skrev Samuel Okepefi <[email protected]>:
>
>> MF-Warburg wrote:
>> > Hello. I have some doubts. While the number of edits in the project is
>> > certainly impressive, this seems to be achieved by a tactic of doing
>> > extremely minor edits in order to create fairly short articles. There
>> were
>> > four articles that were edited today, you can see it in all of them:
>> >
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wn/guw/Gando_nuhahun_aku%
>> …
>> >
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wn/guw/Nawe_d%C3%A9_domi%
>> …
>> >
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wn/guw/Insurance_h%C3%B2_
>> …
>> >
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wn/guw/Buhari,_Jonathan_p
>> …
>> >
>> > A first user creates the article in little slices, then user Samatics
>> comes
>> > in to fix some formalities. All articles are rather short and link to a
>> > single English-language article (is it the source?) each.
>> > Incidentally, you can also put all of the articles into Google Translate
>> > and it will recognize them as being in Yoruba and put out an
>> intelligible
>> > English translation. I don't know how worrisome that is, though (but
>> see <
>> > https://books.google.de/books?id=801byTVQSuwC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq…
>> > at the bottom of p. 2).
>> >
>> > Am Mi., 15. Feb. 2023 um 15:47 Uhr schrieb Sotiale Wiki <
>> > sotiale.wm(a)gmail.com&gt;gt;:
>> >
>> > >   I agree to the approval of guwwikinews.
>> > >
>> > >  I had previously been concerned about this project's focus on
>> creating
>> > >  Wikimedia projects in a short period of time, but I realized that
>> this was
>> > >  just my pointless concern. Some projects are often left unattended to
>> > >  establish other projects after being approved. However, guw projects
>> are
>> > >  not, and are usually maintained and contributed continuously.
>> > >
>> > >  The sustainability of the community and sufficient contributions are
>> also
>> > >  generally satisfactory. And no major problems are found that would
>> prevent
>> > >  approval.
>> > >
>> > >  Therefore, I have absolutely no reason to oppose, and I'm in favor of
>> > >  approval.
>> > >
>> > >  Sotiale
>> > >
>> > >  2023년 2월 14일 (화) 오후 9:37, Jon Harald Søby
>> &lt;jhsoby(a)gmail.xn--com&gt;-4f21ay07k 작성:
>> > >
>> > >   Hi all!
>> > >
>> > >  I would like to suggest the approval of the Gungbe Wikinews [1]. The
>> test
>> > >  wiki was started in October, and has had a steady and solid activity
>> ever
>> > >  since [2], with a core group of 8 active users who have made a
>> substantial
>> > >  number of edits.
>> > >
>> > >  According to Samatics, their most active contributor, they average
>> about
>> > >  7 new articles per day (I haven't double-checked this number, but
>> have no
>> > >  reason to doubt it). For comparison, the 14 newest articles on the
>> English
>> > >  Wikinews as of right now range from February 12 to January 8, so
>> that's one
>> > >  article every 2.5 days – meaning the Gungbe Wikinews is already one
>> of the
>> > >  most currently active Wikinews editions. They even have an audio
>> Wikinews
>> > >  subproject [3] with spoken news articles!
>> > >
>> > >  The localization of MediaWiki into Gungbe is great and ongoing,
>> currently
>> > >  MediaWiki core is at 70 % [4].
>> > >
>> > >  [1] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw
>> > >  [2]
>> > >
>> > > https://meta.toolforge.org/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wn/guw&…
>> > >  [3]
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wn/guw/Linlin-hihia
>> > >  [4] https://codelookup.toolforge.org/guw
>> > >
>> > >  --
>> > >  mvh
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>> Hello,
>>
>> Apologies for posting here. I just found out about this threads and I
>> want to address MF-Warburg concerns.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, wikinews articles are mostly news summary from
>> respected newspapers as sources (at most 2 sources per article). This
>> policy we have adhered to. Most of the news articles on enwikinews are
>> stub-like if compared to enwiki articles see examples here:
>>
>>
>> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/More_than_100_killed_in_mosque_bombing_in_Pakistan
>>
>> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Earthquake_strikes_Aksu_Prefecture,_Xinjiang_Region,_China;_no_casualties_reported
>>
>> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_singer_Madonna%27s_elder_brother_Anthony_Ciccone_dies_at_age_66
>>
>> https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Glasshouse_in_to_Tier_1_women%27s_cricket_final_on_Australia%27s_Sunshine_Coast
>>
>> When we started this project, we cite two to three sources but decided to
>> stick to one source since ours is summarising a news article and then
>> translating it. This is a community decision. You can see examples here.
>>
>>
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw/Folasade_Ogunsola_l%E1%BA%B9zun_y%E1%BB%8Dnnu_tintan_heyin_m%E1%BA%B9b%E1%BB%8Ddo-azinpon%E1%BB%8D_UNILAG_t%E1%BB%8Dn_go
>>
>>
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw/Naijilia_na_klan_eyin_Bola_Tinubu_l%E1%BA%B9zun_t%C3%B2g%C3%A1n_w%E1%BA%B9_Obaseki_d%E1%BB%8D
>>
>> As to posting short edits, I correct the sentences in most cases and that
>> gives a lot of issues to me. So I encouraged writing text in bits and
>> making sure the tonal markers are right. This reduces the level of my
>> corrections on the body of texts. I also come in to add the proper
>> formatting (once we get approval importing and then using the templates is
>> usually easy and this will reduce this work) and audio to the news. You can
>> confirm this trends on guwwiki or guwwiktionary. It's not a tactic as you
>> concluded. Gungbe is tonal and a word if not marked properly can have
>> different meanings e.g owhé(house), owhe(year),  owhè(sun).
>>
>> Concerning using Google translate to translate our article and Google
>> suggesting it as Yoruba. A proper test I think you should have done is
>> reversing the Google translated text in English back to Yoruba and you will
>> be amazed to see that no single word or expression will be the same as the
>> previous text in gungbe. But thanks for this observations, it makes me to
>> be aware of the possibility of gungbe being added to Google translate
>> languages soon. My explanation for this is that there are large body of
>> texts online for Gungbe and Google's algorithm is based on how close a
>> written text is to an existing language. I found this interesting paper
>> https://metatext.io/datasets/jw300. And did the same test you did on
>> this:
>>
>> https://www.jw.org/guw/Wes%E1%BA%B9dot%E1%BA%B9n/linlinwe-l%E1%BA%B9/at%C3%B2%CC%A3h%C3%B2%CC%A3-nuhih%C3%B3%CC%A3-l%E1%BB%8D-t%E1%BB%8Dn-s%E1%BB%8Dha1-2019-jan-f%C3%A9vr/naw%E1%BA%B9-jiwhey%E1%BA%B9whe-n%E1%BB%8D-yin/
>>
>>
>> https://www.jw.org/guw/nuhe-biblu-pl%E1%BB%8Dn-m%C3%AD/kanbi%E1%BB%8D-l%E1%BA%B9/pipeh%E1%BA%B9-z%C3%B2%CC%A3n-j%E1%BA%B9magb%E1%BB%8D/
>> The texts are in gungbe but Google gives an intelligent translation and
>> detects it as Yoruba. But when done in the reverse. It doesn't match the
>> previous text. (You can try it too)
>>
>> I'll suggest when you do such test next time, try to do the reverse and
>> see if it matches the previous text.
>>
>> In addition to the above, you can see that most of our sports news
>> article are longer than most enwikinews articles. You can see here:
>>
>>
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw/Kane_do_ag%C3%B3_200t%E1%BB%8D_et%E1%BB%8Dn_to_Premier_League_m%E1%BA%B9_dile_Tottenham_duto_Man_City_ji
>>
>>
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/guw/Man_City_h%C3%B2_Chelsea,_nado_s%E1%BA%B9p%E1%BB%8D_m%E1%BA%B9he_to_aga_to_todohukanji_EPL_t%E1%BB%8Dn_m%E1%BA%B9
>>
>> Or a full list in the sports category:
>>
>>
>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wn/guw/Aihundida_lanm%E1%BA%B9yiya_t%E1%BB%8Dn
>>
>> Let me know if further clarifications are needed from me.
>> Once again, apologies for posting here as I assume it is not open to the
>> public.
>>
>> Best
>> Samatics
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