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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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