Langcom January 2016

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Western Balochi
by Amir E. Aharoni 06 May '17

06 May '17

Hi, I received a few requests to check the status of Western Balochi incubator (bgn). The code bgn is legit, the translation of most-used messages is complete, and the activity in the incubator is reasonable. A lot of pages are written; many are just one or two lines long, but I don't think that I mind. Do we want to verify that it's the right language? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Luri Wikipedia
by Amir Ladsgroup 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hey, Several days ago a discussion <https://fa.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8…> has been started in Persian Wikipedia regarding Northern[1] Luri wikipedia ( lrc.wikimedia.org). If I want to give you a summary of the discussion. Mostly they say script is unreadable (it's greatly different than Persian script) and also they noted that vocabulary is tried to be away of Persian (and close to Kuridsh) in a bad way and thus it's un-understandable for people who talk this variant of Luri (As it was mentioned this Luri is being spoken in Khoramabbad and Broujerd, two big cities of Iran). We can confirm that we showed this wiki to several people who speak Luri and in either Khoramabad or Boroujerd. None of them could understand most of content of this wiki. We also provided a big table at the discussion in Persian Wikipedia and compared several words in the wiki to what they actually speak in Northern Luri. I found this <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.langcom/150> in which User:Mogoeilor told you that Gholamreza Mehramooz (User:Mehramooz) is a university professor with PhD and interestingly when we asked about the script in that wiki User:Mogoeilor (the same person) told us the script is made up by a User:Mehramooz because he has MSc in linguistics (edit <https://lrc.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%DA%A4%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%BE%…>) . More interestingly in his blog he says he has a MSc in translation studies (published about a year and half ago <http://www.zistrah.blogfa.com/post/16>) You can verify the blog in his user page. [1]: Also an interesting conversation <https://lrc.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%DA%A4%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%BE%…> happened in this wiki in Persian. It seems they changed named of the wiki from Northern Luri to Minjaii Luri "Minjaii" is a word in Luri that in English means "Centeral Luri" Best

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Adyghe Wikipedia approval
by Amir E. Aharoni 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Hi Patricio, According to the Wikimedia Language committee procedure[1], I'm notifying you as the chairman of the Board that the Language Committee that the Committee supports the creation of Wikipedia in Adyghe.[2] The language has a valid ISO 639 3 code "ady", it's living, it has an active Wikimedia Incubator community, and the validity of the content in the Incubator was verified by an expert in the Circassian Heritage Center in Kfar-Kama, Israel (Adyghe is part of the Circassian family). If there will be no objection from the board until January 31, I will file a Phabricator request to create the ady.wikipedia.org domain. Thank you! [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Handbook_%28committee%29 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Adyghe -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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luri lrc wikipedia
by Mohammad Mogoei 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

luri lrc verify with dr moshkriz his phd in linguitic and ancient lanuges and i can contact with him and he verify the paperik alphabet and in base of wikimedia rules user of one wikipedia no right to intrefere to another wikipedia. you can see the articles and other things about dr mehdi moshkriz: http://www.noormags.ir/view/fa/articlepage/1051545/%D9%BE%DA%98%D9%88%D9%87… and he is workin in shiraz university now.

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Re: [Langcom] Third Article in Tunisian SL on Wikipedia
by Gerard Meijssen 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hoi, When the Tunesians want a signwriting Wikipedia, it is eligible to have one. This means that it is in the other requirements for finally having one. For American Sign Language, there is a requirement of a minimal number of articles and a sustained interest. Given the special nature, the last bit is easy to argue. When do you feel that a Wikipedia with all the trimmings makes sense to you? Thanks, GerardM On 29 January 2016 at 05:09, Dali balti <livingtabernacle(a)yahoo.fr> wrote: > Hello everyone! > I am amazed at using Rand Keyboard! I am also thankful to Wikipedia for > allowing us to record articles for generations to come! > I amde my third article entitled "Abou Kacem Chebbi".... > He is the most famous Tunisian poet, sadly he died when he was 24 years > old, but he wrote too many poems which were a new phase > in Arabic poems innovation and a cutting with the past with old arabic > poems! > His great poems influenced too many writers, peoms, singers and NATIONS > all over the world. > Our Tunisian Hymn contains two verses of his poems: > When the people will to live, > Destiny must surely respond. > Oppression shall then vanish. > Fetters are certain to break. > I wish one day I can translate some of them into Tunisian Sign Language! > > I am still struggling with images inserting into Wikipedia. By now I leant > I insert images, and I can see them well placed into the texts, > but when clicking on "save page" which is at left appearing in blue color, > nothing happens, and the picture is not saved! > What shall I do? > Thank you! > > Link to the page (without image) > > <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tse/M537x541S30a00482x483S33e00482x…> > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/tse/M537x541S30a00482x483S33e00482x… > ________________________________________________ > > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION > > Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator sutton(a)signwriting.org > > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: sw-l(a)listserv.valenciacollege.edu > > SignWriting List Archives & Home Page > http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist > > Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages > http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1 > >

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Discussion about new members
by Milos Rancic 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

One of few drawbacks of public committee list is talking about particular persons. May we conclude that whenever we get an application for a new member, one of the list admins creates an ad hoc CC list for discussion about particular application?

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Request for approval Western Balochi Wikipedia
by Ibrahim Baloch 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Western Balochi has active for few months, and have more 5000 articles. 1- https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&language=bgn&grou… 2- https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/bgn&wik… 3- https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/bgn/بُنیادی_تاکدیم -- Ибрахим Белудж

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Mentioning of "revived" languages in the Language Proposal Policy
by MF-Warburg 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Please see the discussion at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#Language_proposal_p…>.

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Mongolian Wikipedia written in Mongolian script
by Milos Rancic 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

As we have top-down infrastructure now, I think we should make mvf eligible now. (Supposing they could write it, as it's the case with ASL.) [1] Note that there two times more Mongols in Inner Mongolia than they are in Mongolia itself, as well as they are using Mongolian traditional script. As it turned out that there it's not reasonable to tell them to wait for transliteration/translation engine, I think it's reasonable to make it eligible. Others? [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#.22Wikipedia_Mongol…

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Membership application
by olatunde isaac 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Dear Language Committee, I'm Olatunde Isaac, a Nigerian academic and a medical laboratory scientist. I co-founded the "Wikimedia affiliate in Nigeria" and I've also served as member of "Individual Engagement Grant Committee", under the Wikimedia Foundation programs and event grants. I am the Manager, Wikipedia Education Program in Nigeria. I'm currently coordinating the Yoruba Language Wikipedia. I like to bring my experience to the Language committee and I will serve diligently if my application is considered. Best, Olatunde Isaac, Manager, Wikipedia Education Program, Nigeria Phone: +2348166620737 Email: reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com User page: Wikicology Facebook: Olatunde Olalekan Isaac. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

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