Re: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

2012-02-21 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The problem that can be solved is to have the arn code associated with Auracanian in the CLDR. Changing the ISO-639 code itself is not possible. This code is not the only one that is considered to be problematic by the people who speak that language. In essence it is just a code. At that,

Re: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

2012-02-20 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
Hi Samuel and Gerard, thanks for your answer About UNESCO, we as WM-CL haven't been able to contact lately with the representative of UNESCO in the country. UNESCO was one of the promoters of the last Congress of the Chilean Indigenous Languages past November, but I didn't have the chance to meet

Re: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

2012-02-19 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
_ MateusNobre MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:50:20 -0300 From: os...@wikimediachile.cl To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia Hi everyone! Yesterday

Re: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

2012-02-19 Thread Samuel Klein
This is a wonderful report. Thank you for sharing, Osmar! Do you know whether we have any official message of support from UNESCO that we can point to? Or one from a group that works with us and that is wholly dedicated to language preservation (like our friends at the Rosetta Project?) SJ

Re: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

2012-02-19 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, This sounds like a great initiative. I am sure that the language committee will aim to help you as much as possible. The language policy is designed to ensure that new projects have an optimal chance of success. There are a few things that we require from you. They are that you localise the

[Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

2012-02-18 Thread Osmar Valdebenito
Hi everyone! Yesterday, news agency EFE published a note about the work done mainly by Wikimedia Argentina about the development of projects in Native American languages like aymara, guarani and mapudungun. The news have been replied in the largest newspapers and websites of Latin America and

Re: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia

2012-02-18 Thread Mateus Nobre
...@wikimediachile.cl To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] EFE: Indigenous languages entering Wikipedia Hi everyone! Yesterday, news agency EFE published a note about the work done mainly by Wikimedia Argentina about the development of projects in Native American languages