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(a)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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