Hey All
Wondering if anyone has specific langcomm concerns they wish to be brought
to the board level?
Wondering if someone can provide a brief overview of what has been
accomplished in the last year.
Best
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
You definitely need to examine pages from hywiki. That constitutes most of the content for the future wiki; there are only a few pages on Incubator, and they were written later.
How that's organized, I don't know. Go to its RFL page on Meta and ask, I guess.
Steven White
1. Is there any progress on getting the content verified?
2. The bulk of the content is on Armenian Wikipedia (hywiki). But there is a small amount of content on Incubator (Wp/hyw), too.
Steven
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Wikipedia Southern Uzbek<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Southe…> (uzs): Afghanistan version of Uzbek, spoken by 4.2 million. Theoretically eligible, but only three pages created so far. Placing on hold.
Wikipedia Pahlavi<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Pahlavi> (Middle Persian)(pal): This Persian has been essentially extinct since the 11th century; surviving literature is mainly related to Zoroastrianism. See enwiki article<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Persian>. This project should probably be rejected, but be allowed at Incubator like a number of other ancient-language test projects with valid language codes. Waiting a week for comments.
Wikipedia Meitei<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Meitei> (mni): Language is the lingua franca of the Indian state of Manipur, with about 1.5 MM speakers. Has a reasonable amount of content. Eligible, but mostly one person's work, so I will warn that person to gather a community.
Wikipedia Narom<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Narom> (nrm): About 4,000 speakers in Sarawak. In theory, could be eligible. In practice, the complication here is that its language code is currently occupied by Normand Wikipedia, so I'd need to create a temporary code in Incubator to host this. That's not a problem per se, but the request was made by an IP, and my request for a registered user to be involved has not been answered yet. So I'm going to put this on hold for now.
Wikipedia Shawiya<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Shawiya> (shy): Berber/Tamazight variety that is the second most commonly spoken one (after Kabyle) in Algeria. This test has only one page, but there is actually an active Wiktionary project on Incubator just marked as eligible. Will put on hold for now, but probably that will flip soon to eligible.
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I hereby submit Saraiki Wikipedia (Wp/skr) to be evaluated for approval. It will need language verification; can someone please work on that? In the meantime, please look it over for provisional approval. (Note: we have done a CU on its principal contributors, and have found no problem with them.)
Steven
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Hi. I thought I would provide everyone with an update on where things currently stand.
1. We're still waiting for language verification on Western Armenian Wikipedia.
2. All requests dating to 2012 or earlier have now been addressed, with the exception of two requests concerning the Balochi macrolanguage and one of its constituent languages. We are still waiting for a recommendation from Satdeep Gill on that.
3. For non-Wikipedia projects, all requests dating from the beginning of 2017 through May 2018 have been addressed. For Wikipedia, all requests dating from July 2017 through May 2018 have been addressed. In some cases, these requests were put "on hold", and those will be reviewed after one year "on hold".
Following are my priorities for the rest of 2018:
* Respond to all current (2018) requests.
* Respond to all remaining Wikipedia 2017 requests.
* Update the policy language around ancient/historical languages, and mark the Wikipedia Ancient Greek request as eligible. (Anyone can feel free to draft this. Hint, hint.)
* If there is time, I will then move on to 2013 requests.
Steven
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Two of the three open requests are simple and eligible: Wikivoyage Nepali and Wikivoyage Belarusian.
The test supporting the third request, Wikivoyage Gilaki<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikivoyage_Gilaki>, has a main page and one content page created around the time of the RFL request, and then nothing. So I will mark that one on hold pending some more activity.
Steven
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I take this to mean that we can move forward with final approval. Just one comment, and one question:
Comment: I can’t formally close this and create the phabricator task until Wednesday, because I didn’t post the public notice on Meta until last Wednesday.
Question: Do I need to say something about the whole coding issue on the approval page and/or in the phabricator task?
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 03:00:03 +0200
From: André Müller <esperantist(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee
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Subject: Re: [Langcom] Tentative approval of Shan Wikipedia
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Thanks for the mention!
Yes, it looks good to me, although my Mac has some problems with the "comma
tone", but that's also the case when I write something in Shan. I am
positively surprized about the number of articles and that many of them
aren't just stubs but actually quite long (I don't speak Shan fluently
enough to actually read through an entire long article before getting
tired). I also expected there to be issues with Unicode vs. Zawgyi vs.
other encodings for Shan, because there are several different encodings for
Shan, just like there are for Burmese. The articles are all in Unicode,
great!
However, this also means, that at least in the near future, while Burma is
still a "non-Unicode country", most Shan speakers with laptop and interest
might not be able to write articles.
I can only hope that a Jinghpaw Wikipedia will someday be as
well-progressing.
Best wishes from Zurich,
— André