That's fantastic ! Proof, if it was ever needed, that the Wikimedia movement can have an effect on the "outside world" other than collecting and providing information ; Wikimedia Armenia actually took the leading part in bettering an international standard !
My most heartfelt congratulations :-) Alphos > Le 1 févr. 2018 à 00:00, Delphine Ménard <dmen...@wikimedia.org> a écrit : > > Congratulations to Wikimedia Armenia for those truly great efforts! > > best, > > Delphine > > 2018-01-31 11:39 GMT+01:00 David Saroyan <saroyanda...@wikimedia.am>: > >> 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ 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: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
