Dear
Lang Com: is requested to contact linguists for the verification of
Saraiki language.
1. Saraiki has ISO 639-3 valid code skr.
2 Saraiki is language in the census of Pakistan.
3. Saraiki is a school, college, and University subject.
4. Saraiki is taught from primary to Ph.D level.
5. Saraiki has TV channels.
6. Govt: of Pakistan has made website in Saraiki also.
7. Saraiki is recognized language by Govt: of Pakistan.
8. Awards are awarded by Govt: of Pakistan in Saraiki languages books in
addition to Punjabi language.
9. Saraiki news and programs are presented on Public and Private Radio in
Saraiki also.
10. Saraiki language Dictionaries are also available since 1881 A.D. An
online is this https://www.ijunoon.com/saraiki/dictionary.aspx?word=when
11. Saraiki has its own Grammar, Idioms, Proverbs, alphabets, and Tenses.
12. Saraiki translations of Bible and Quran are also available.
13. All above things are available for Pakistani Western Punjabi as well as
Saraiki also.
14. Saraiki is also language of WordPress. see https://skr.wordpress.org/
- In 1881 , Glossary of the Multani Language Compared with Punjábi and
Sindhi, was pulished. In this book more than 5000 words are given, which
shows that Saraiki and Punjabi are different. see,
https://books.google.com.pk/books/about/Glossary_of_the_Multani_Language_Co…
- In Wt/skr
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wt/skr&action=edit&redlink=1>,
there are more than 18000 pages. Most words are different from pnb.
- Alphabet of Saraiki are different from western Punjabi pbn.
- See also https://www.britannica.com/topic/Siraiki-language ۔ Hence
Saraiki Wikipedia be approved.
Most work has been done in Saraiki Wikipedia and Saraiki Wiktionary. Kindly
approve these so that these may be created. Thanking you anticipation
Parvez Qadir
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پرویز قادر
Hi all,
I would like to propose the approval of the Inari Sámi Wikipedia [1].
The activity has been good and stable all year, with several active
contributors [2], and the most used messages have all been translated [3].
We can safely bypass the verification step for this project, since our very
own Yupik is one of the active contributors and knows Inari Sámi; in
addition, Trond Trosterud (User:Trondtr), who is a professor of Sámi
language technology at the Giellatekno department of the University of
Tromsø, is also one of the active contributors. Trondtr wrote a request for
us to approve the Inari Sámi Wikipedia, which I'm pasting in its entirety
below, as it gives a much better overview than what I could:
Proposal for a Wikipedia version for Inari Saami
>
> We hereby propose that the Inari Saami incubator Wikipedia be converted
> into a full-fledged Wikipedia, smn.wikipedia.org
>
> The language community
>
> Inari Saami has appr. 450 speakers. This makes it a small language
> community in Wikipedia terms. It is still worth noting that Inari Saami is
> probably one of the most, if not the most successful revitalisation
> processes in the world. During the last decades the language community has
> organised language nests for a generation of Inari Saami children, and it
> has taught the language to key members of the middle generation. The third
> phase of the revitalisation, strengthening the literacy of the language, is
> now in its initial phase. This phase is named “100 new writers of Inari
> Saami” and has “1000 new pages of youth fiction” as one of its subprojects.
> The last decade has also seen language technology projects for Inari Saami,
> resulting in a spellchecker, comprehensive online dictionaries, keyboards
> with predictive writing, and programs for machine translation.
>
> At present, Inari Saami is one of the four official languages of the Inari
> municipality and the Finnish Saami parliament. It is taught at all levels
> of instruction from kindergarten up to and including PhD level courses. The
> activists behind the “100 new writers of Inari Saami” are planning a
> campaign for children in high school to contribute to the Inari Saami
> Wikipedia.
>
> The Wikipedia
>
> Inari Saami has been in the incubator since 2012, with several quite good
> articles from an early stage. In spring 2020, the Inari Saami Language
> Association (Anarâškielâ servi) arranged Wikipedia writing workshops. Over
> the past six months, the Inari Saami Wikipedia version has seen edits every
> day, usually 30–50 edits a day. There are more than 1,000 articles and a
> substantial part of these are of good quality. The short articles form good
> and coherent article sets. Finnish municipalities, countries of the world,
> languages in the Uralic language family, Finnish authors, grammar and
> society are all such categories for which there is reasonably good coverage
> of short but informative articles. A list has also been made of the
> articles that are vital to the Inari Saami Wikipedia. As for localisation,
> the basic requirement has been met, as all strings in the set of core
> messages have been translated into Inari Saami.
>
> We expect that a separate Wikipedia for Inari Saami will make it more
> visible than it is today, and make its users compare it with the much
> larger North Saami Wikipedia.
>
[1] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/smn
[2]
https://meta.toolforge.org/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/smn&wiki=in…
[3] https://robin.toolforge.org/?tool=codelookup&code=smn
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mvh
Jon Harald Søby
We welcome Jan Wohlgemuth (User:Janwo) as a new member of Langcom. Both a
long-term community member and a linguist, we are sure he will enrich our
committee very much.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 9:46 PM
Subject: Wikimedia Clinic #010 - Tue Sep 15th 13:00UTC - Abstract Wikipedia
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
This is an update from the Wikimedia Clinics series.[1]
On Tuesday, September 15th, at 13:00 UTC[2], we will be hosting Wikimedia
Clinic #010.[3] The scheduled segment this time would be an introduction
to Abstract Wikipedia, featuring project founder Denny Vrandečić himself!
As always, beyond this scheduled segment, there will be time to bring up
any Wikimedia-related questions or topics other call attendees are
interested in.
Hope to see you there!
A.
[1] Wikimedia Clinics are live video calls hosted by the Community
Development team, as a way to keep in touch during the pandemic, and offer
an opportunity to ask questions, share recent work, brainstorm ideas, etc.
In addition to whatever topics attendees bring up on the spot, there is a
pre-schedule segment in each call. Read more at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics
[2] this time, the time of day was chosen to accommodate the ESEAP region,
in particular.
[3] Google Meet[4] link: https://meet.google.com/dsd-rypz-xjf
[4] Our experiment using Jitsi-based Wikimedia Meet resulted in a clear
conclusion that it is not a suitable platform for Wikimedia Clinic calls,
as it cannot reliable handle more than about 10 people, as we learned the
hard way at Clinic #009.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org