This is really great! Congratulations to this success to both of you, Wikimedia Armenia and the Gulbenkian Foundation!
I really appreciate to see that creating and preserving Free Knowledge can have such an influence on official language policies :) Best regards Cornelius On 1 February 2018 at 00:00, Delphine Ménard <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations to Wikimedia Armenia for those truly great efforts! > > best, > > Delphine > > 2018-01-31 11:39 GMT+01:00 David Saroyan <[email protected]>: > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm pleased to announce that the efforts of Wikimedia Armenia to get > > separate ISO 639-3 language code for Western Armenian [1] were finally > > succeeded. SIL International, the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority, > decided > > to create the code element [hyw] for Western Armenian. [2] > > > > We initiated this process three years ago when we started the > collaboration > > with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [3] in order to foster and > improve > > free content in Western Armenian. This resulted in "Western Armenian > > project" where Wikimedia Armenia through different events and activities > > started to disseminate and support the creation of Western Armenian > content > > with the help of local and diasporan Western Armenian community members. > > > > From the launch of the "Western Armenian project" we were challenged with > > the problem that Western Armenian has no ISO 639-3 language code which > did > > not allow the community to split Western Armenian content into a separate > > language Wikipedia. This problem made lots of trouble for us, as hy.wiki > > often had two versions of the same page. > > > > Wikimedia Armenia with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation eventually decided > to > > apply for code split. [4] This was done mainly with the help of Michael > > Everson. [5] Besides WM AM and Armenian Communities Department of > Calouste > > Gulbenkian foundation there were also other parties involved, such as the > > department of Armenian Studies of the Institut National des Langues et > > Civilisations Orientales, Paris and other academic institutions. > > > > Today is a special day for Wikimedia Armenia and Western Armenian > speaking > > community as our proposal was accepted. Thanks all Wikimedians who > > supported us in this work. > > > > Best, > > Davit Saroyan > > Program Manager > > Wikimedia Armenia > > > > > > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenian > > 2. > > http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_ > > Comments_2017-023.pdf > > 3. https://gulbenkian.pt/en/ > > 4. http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2017-023.pdf > > 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Everson > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Delphine Ménard > Program Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Delphine_(WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Delphine_(WMF)> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Cornelius Kibelka Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC) for the Wikimedia Conference Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
