I was recently talking to my colleague Iain Thomson @ OLPC oceania, and he mentioned some of the work going on on Niue (the first nation in the world to reach saturation @ one laptop per child :) in terms of producing open content and learning materials. Among their initiatives, they have a complete niu <--> en dictionary that seems likely to be available under a free license. Presumably it would be more complete than bestselling author Philip Parker's version[1]. It would need digitization and some posting online... but this could launch niu.wiktionary.org ...
Are there any active wiktionary efforts for related Oceanic languages? I think there is other great material coming out of oceania thanks to Ian and David Leeming that should soon be available for wiktionary, wikisource, and wikiversity. SJ [1] http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Niue/ On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi, > Do not forget the als.wikipedia.org. It stands for Alsatian, but the als > code is the Tosk language. The "gsw" code is the code that should have been > used. > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw > > The nrm.wikipedia is also using a wrong code. nrm is Narom, a language from > Malaysia. Nourmande is not recognised as a language, consequently there is > no code available for it. I propose to use qaa for this. > http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/scope.asp#R > Thanks, > Gerard< > > > > > 2008/11/26 Jon Harald Søby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Don't forget zh-yue → yue and zh-min-nan → nan; these languages have got >> valid ISO 639-3 codes since creation. Also, als should be moved to gsw (als >> is the code for Tosk Albanian, while als in Wikimedia is Alemannisch - not >> even close to Tosk Albanian). >> >> 2008/11/26 Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > For quick background, it's pretty painful to rename a database in our >> > system, and we currently have a lot of bits in our configuration that >> > make automatic relationships between the database name and the domain >> > name, so this has delayed renaming of some language subdomains for a >> while. >> > >> > It's not impossible to have them be different, just fairly awkward. :) >> > >> > I'd like to get these done soon, but before we get started, I want to >> > make sure the queue is complete and ready to go. I've currently got four >> > language code renames that I see being requested... >> > >> > == Aromanian == >> > >> > roa-rup.wikipedia.org -> rup.wikipedia.org >> > roa-rup.wiktionary.org -> rup.wiktionary.org >> > >> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15988 >> > >> > ISO-639-2 code 'rup' was added in September 2005, and can supersede the >> > generic 'roa' code with 'rup' subtag. >> > >> > This seems pretty uncontroversial. Existing domains and interwikis would >> > be redirected. >> > >> > >> > == Low German == >> > >> > nds.wikipedia.org -> nds-de.wikipedia.org >> > nds.wikibooks.org -> nds-de.wikibooks.org >> > nds.wikiquote.org -> nds-de.wikiquote.org >> > nds.wiktionary.org -> nds-de.wiktionary.org >> > >> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8540 >> > >> > Reasoning: Disambiguation of country variants to create a portal site >> > (nds-nl.wikipedia.org exists as well). >> > >> > The original request is almost 2 years old and didn't seem to have any >> > clear consensus; is this still desired? >> > >> > Creating a portal site could cause difficulties with URL compatibility, >> > and I don't really recommend making this change without clear consensus >> > from the community there. >> > >> > Note that nds.wikipedia.org includes a link on the front page to >> > nds-nl.wikipedia.org. >> > >> > >> > == Moldovan == >> > >> > mo.wikipedia.org -> mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org >> > mo.wiktionary.org -> mo-cyrl.wiktionary.org >> > >> > The official Moldovan language is the same as Romanian, using Latin >> > script and same orthography as on ro.wikipedia.org. Latin script was >> > officially adopted in 1989, replacing Soviet-era Cyrillic script; use of >> > Cyrillic script is still "official" in an unrecognized, >> > lightly-populated breakaway region but if people there use it, they >> > don't seem to edit Wikipedia... >> > >> > The 'mo' language code has been officially deprecated from ISO 639-1/2 >> > as of November 3, 2008; "Moldovan" in general use is just Romanian, and >> > is covered by ro.wikipedia.org. >> > >> > mo.wikipedia.org has not actually been edited since December 2006. >> > mo.wiktionary.org seems to have.... 4 definition pages, which only >> > contain translations (no definitions!) Being inactive, these projects >> > could be closed in addition to / instead of the rename. >> > >> > Use of tag 'mo-cyrl' would follow existing IANA-registered language >> > subtags such as 'bs-Cyrl' and 'bs-Latn' for Cyrillic and Latin script >> > variants. >> > >> > Most likely, for compatibility we would redirect the existing 'mo' URLs >> > to the new 'mo-cyrl' ones, but they would now be visibly marked by the >> > subtag as being "yes we know, it's Cyrillic here". If we're going to >> > lock the site as well, adding a sitenotice pointing to the Romanian wiki >> > is probably wise. >> > >> > >> > == Belorusian "old orthography" == >> > >> > be-x-old.wikipedia.org -> be-tarask.wikipedia.org >> > >> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9823 >> > >> > Some time ago we swapped around the Belorusian Wikipedia, moving the >> > previous version which was primarily using a non-official orthography, >> > from 'be' to 'be-x-old', and re-establishing be.wikipedia.org using the >> > official state orthography. >> > >> > There was later a request to rename 'be-x-old' (using a non-standard >> > code) to 'be-tarask', a IANA-registered subtag which is rather more >> > descriptive. IMHO this change should not be terribly controversial -- if >> > we're not closing it, we may as well give it its official RFC >> > 4646-registered code. >> > >> > Old domain and interwikis would be redirected. >> > >> > >> > -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jon Harald Søby >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l
