Per my last email: By proposal, I mean a Unicode proposal for the Dunging script.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 9:44 PM Volintine Ander <[email protected]> wrote: > There should also be a serious discussion about the Dunging script. AFAIK > no one is working on a proposal and my attempts to contact the primary > researcher has come to no avail. > > We need some input from Iban speakers whether they would like to have the > Dunging script represented as an alternative script that they can read > Wikipedia in. > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 9:38 PM Volintine Ander <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I don't think the Iban project has any unified body of users like the >> recently hatched dtp Wikipedia has. It would be more sustainable for the >> Malaysian Wikimedia Users Group to contact educational institutions in >> Sarawak to form a group of contributors like the Kadazandusun Wikipedia's >> Kalab Wiki Kent. >> >> Currently it seems that there is only one Iban speaker (that I know of) >> that regularly contributes to the incubator: Song GK. >> >> However there is precedence to approving a Wikipedia even though there's >> limited community involvement. There was an approved indigenous Taiwanese >> Wikipedia that I couldn't remember the name of that got approved despite >> having only one active editor. Since Iban is not threatened in any way, I >> think the project should be approved ASAP, since the formation of an >> officially-sanctioned group of users can be swiftly done later. >> >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 8:45 PM Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Any comments? >>> >>> tir. 13. aug. 2024 kl. 20:00 skrev Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Hello all, >>>> >>>> I would like to propose the approval of the Wikipedia in Iban [1]. The >>>> activity level is good, with recent activity from at least four users in >>>> the previous four months (with even more sporadic users) [2]. The >>>> localization is also good, with the most important messages having been >>>> translated [3]. >>>> >>>> Since this is the first Wikipedia in this language, we need >>>> verification; I have already written to an Iban language expert to ask for >>>> verification. >>>> >>>> [1] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/iba >>>> [2] >>>> https://iw.toolforge.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php%3Fcat%3D0%26title%3DWp/iba%26wiki%3Dincubatorwiki >>>> [3] https://codelookup.toolforge.org/iba >>>> >>>> -- >>>> mvh >>>> Jon Harald Søby >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> mvh >>> Jon Harald Søby >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >>
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