[Wikipedia-l] Re: addind new language into wikipedia

[Henry Tan-Tenn]

I would love to see an Amis (Pangcah) project.  It's the fourth or fifth 
largest language spoken natively in Taiwan (Japanese, though having many 
speakers, is always non-natively spoken among the elderly).  There 
should be enough educated, Internet-using literate speakers to get one 
going, though slow progress is to be expected, at least till it builds 
up a reputation for being "the on-line Amis project" (Wikimedia sadly 
having received very little press attention in Taiwan).  Like other 
Taiwanese Austronesian languages, there may be major dialect differences 
to negotiate (or perhaps ignore).

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Mark Williamson ti 2005/6/10 ChS 08:21 sia-kong:
> No, there is no objection, and I don't think there ever has been.
> 
> The same seems to be true with Amis, except that Amis doesn't have a
> suitable language code.
> 
> If it would be OK, an agreement was reached among the involved parties
> that amis.wiktionary.org would be suitable. (they wanted a Wiktionary
> created, and maybe a Wikipedia at some future date).
> 
> Otherwise, xxx-amis, i-amis, x-amis, or anything like that might be OK.
> 
> Amis will actually have a code in the new version of the ISO
> three-letter codes, but it hasn't been finalised yet (I for one think
> it's horrible -- it's based almost entirely on the Ethnologue, which
> means they combine languages which shouldn't be combined and divide
> languages which shouldn't be divided, and exclude some languages
> altogether).
> 
> There haven't been any objections to the Sa--whatsit Wikipedia, but
> then there are no good code suggestions either.
> 
> Also, a Scots Wikipedia (among others) has been requested and has a
> test Wikipedia that seems to be working a bit. I  don't recall any
> objections to Scots either, and it has an iso code, sco:
> 
> 
> Mark