Hoi, I am all in favour of having a Wikisource to start off with. When they have reasonable activity and a substantial part of the user interface localised, I would even consider a Wikipedia.
Having a Wikisource is something I want to be liberal with; it is a great way of producing tangible results for a language and it is very much a project aimed at editors.. not much traffic to be expected. The work though may be picked up elsewhere.
So yes to a Wikisource and yes to localisation.. Wikipedia maybe when there is sustained activity.
Thanks, GerardM
On 21 July 2017 at 09:46, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
Apparently there is some activity in the Coptic Incubator Wikipedia: portal: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/cop activity: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0& title=Wp/cop&wiki=incubatorwiki#distribution_2017-02 request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_ languages/Wikipedia_Coptic_3
And there's a request to translate MediaWiki into this language: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Incubator: Community_Portal&oldid=4099303#Translatewiki
However, translatewiki and UniversalLanguageSelector are not yet enabled in this language. As far as I know, the language is not exactly alive as a modern language. It's definitely eligible for Wikisource, so it can be in the UniversalLanguageSelector (although I need to make sure what is the autonym - "ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ"?).
But what about a Wikipedia, and what about translating the MediaWiki user interface strings into it? These would probably be revivalist projects because there are no L1 speakers.
If it's not eligible, I'd rather not enable it on translatewiki. Personally, I would support marking it as eligible, but are there other opinions?
It was already rejected in 2008: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/ Wikipedia_Coptic_2
... But that was long ago, and maybe it's worth reconsidering?
Thank you!
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