Re: [Languages] Wikipedia article per speaker

2015-06-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Milos Rancic, 08/06/2015 00:23: And I suppose somebody with statistical knowledge would be able to give us the number which would have meaning "ability to create Wikipedia article". Why not use the human development index (HDI) as factor? Also, instead of the number of articles I'd rather use

Re: [Languages] [Analytics] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia article per speaker

2015-06-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Asaf Bartov, 13/06/2015 02:42: The (already existing) metric of active-editors-per-million-speakers is, it seems to me, a far more robust metric. Erik Z.'s stats.wikimedia.org is offering that metric. I personally agree on this in general, but Millosh is trying som

Re: [Languages] Lessons from benchmarking Wikipedias

2015-11-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Фархад Фаткуллин, 18/11/2015 13:11: One clearly notable trend observed in both Russia and Turkic Wikipedias groups is seasonality in the number of visit, except for the Wikis that have some sort of organization taking care for them (growth for Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, relatively stable for Az

Re: [Languages] Lessons from benchmarking Wikipedias

2015-11-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Фархад Фаткуллин, 19/11/2015 21:35: *Main Page visits* *per project per month* (which is different from Combined Totals above). I obtained them from http://stats.grok.se/ Thanks for this work but that number doesn't mean anything. stats.grok.se doesn't include mobile vi

Re: [Languages] Lessons from benchmarking Wikipedias

2015-11-23 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Фархад Фаткуллин, 23/11/2015 07:21: 1) I noted that figure given by {{NUMBEROF|ARTICLES}} and one that is shown by stats.wikimedia.org Summary files per Wikipedia language editions vary, even if slightly... ex. sahwiki - 10 619, https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummarySAH.htm - 11,499 See https:/

Re: [Languages] Lessons from benchmarking Wikipedias

2015-11-24 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Фархад Фаткуллин, 24/11/2015 10:49: List of those (and some 40 more still in incubator) is available via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_in_languages_of_Russia (more details in ttwiki). By the way, do you think it's Ok for me to try bringing this data on Meta (to get advantage

[Languages] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today

2016-01-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
FYI (sorry for crossposting) Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:[Wikimania-l] WMF Scholarship Deadline for Wikimania is Today Data: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:55:30 -0600 Mittente: Ellie Young Reminder: Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2016 which is being held in Esin

Re: [Languages] One more translation app, this time for smaller languages, Minority Translate

2016-02-27 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Peeter Tinits, 27/02/2016 10:11: We're looking forward to any comments and ideas you may have. We see it as a common goal, and hope to be able to contribute to it in our small way. Thanks for joining the discussion. I had some questions on the project's talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wi

[Languages] Zazaki problems and diq vs. kiu

2016-12-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
For the 3 (?) variants of Zazaki (zza) we have two locales, diq and kiu; only diq has a Wikipedia subdomain. Users are blatantly unable to reach any agreement on anything and have been quarrelling for about a decade now without any progress. Edit wars recently forced me to begin a disarmament.

Re: [Languages] Zazaki problems and diq vs. kiu

2016-12-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Gerard Meijssen, 13/12/2016 06:46: Zazaki is a macro language. When the constituent languages find that they are not the same, it is not a surprise. It is why we do not accept macro languages for projects. Yes, but the existing language codes are being abused as a macrolanguage, without any ag

[Languages] Fwd: Rutgers for Wikipedians interested in endangered languages

2018-03-02 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Sounds appropriate for this list: Federico ___ Languages mailing list Languages@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedi

[Languages] Fwd: In 21st century, threats 'from all sides' for Latin America's original languages

2019-07-28 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Nice to have such articles on front pages: «UNESCO named 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages, committing to working with govern

Re: [Languages] Which script oral language will use anyway?

2019-08-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Subhashish Panigrahi, 22/08/19 22:25: Which script (writing system) an oral language speaker would use for creating an entry on (gateway [1]) projects like Wiktionary or Wikibooks I understand the discussion on oral sources and on languages with little literature and a possibly under-defined o

Re: [Languages] Which script oral language will use anyway?

2019-08-26 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Trey Jones, 26/08/19 16:28: From Ethnologue : The exact number of unwritten languages is hard to determine. Ethnologue (21st edition) has data to indicate that of the currently listed 7,111 living l

[Languages] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Digitally-disadvantaged language

2024-06-25 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thank you for sharing and nice idea, making the acknowledgements section a Unicode test. :) Cc languages list. Congrats, Federico Il 25/06/24 12:29, Biyanto ha scritto: Hi everyone, I hope you are doing great! I just finished my master's degree and would like to share my thesis about