Have you gotten any replies from the Sylheti community about this? Am Do., 15. Juni 2023 um 09:03 Uhr schrieb Jon Harald Søby <jhs...@gmail.com >:
> Hello, Amiu, and thank you for pointing this out! This is indeed something > we should look into before making a final approval. The fact that there is > an existing open-source converter looks promising, and hopefully we can > adapt this to MediaWiki quite easily. I'll reach out to the Sylheti > community to ask for their input as well. > > tor. 15. juni 2023 kl. 07:58 skrev MF-Warburg <mfwarb...@googlemail.com>: > >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> Von: Ami Keu <amitumi1234amitumi1...@gmail.com> >> Date: Mi., 14. Juni 2023 um 23:21 Uhr >> Subject: Fwd: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions >> To: <langcom-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org> >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Ami Keu <amitumi1234amitumi1...@gmail.com> >> Date: Wed, 14 June, 2023 at 10:05 PM >> Subject: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions >> To: jhs...@wikimedia.no <jhs...@wikimedia.no> >> >> >> Hi Jon, >> I don't know if this is the correct email to write this. >> >> Thank you for initiating approval for Sylheti Wikipedia >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/langcom@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/TKDRS64F5NW2BQBCT4LNNKYV3GMSPVRH/ >> >> I would like to point out one thing. Langcom should be aware that Sylheti >> wikipedia uses sylheti nagri script. And not many sylheti people can >> actually read or write this script. Most sylheti uses Bengali alphabet to >> write sylheti (also see >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sylhetis#Sylheti_nagri_script ) >> >> I can see there is a discussion about this on sylheti wikipedia: >> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/syl/ꠝꠥꠟ_ꠚꠣꠔꠣ#আমার_সামান্য_এক_পর্যবেক্ষণ_(ꠝꠞ_ꠔꠥꠞꠣ_ꠇꠤꠀꠟ) >> where a sylheti pointed out that there is an organization did a survey and >> found out only 12-25 thousands people can actually write or read this >> script. >> >> There are c. 10.3 millions sylheti, which means sylheti wikipedia will >> be un-accessible for vast majority of sylheti. >> >> There is also pointed out that possible solutions would be lang converter >> like some wiki has. I would request langcom to create or ask developer to >> create a lang converter for sylheti wikipedia. Mapping already exists, see >> https://github.com/mayeenulislam/nagri-bangla >> >> Thank you. >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list -- langcom@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to langcom-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > > > -- > mvh > Jon Harald Søby > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- langcom@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to langcom-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >
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