Re: [Langcom] Proposed approval of Inari Sámi Wikipedia

If I may, I second the approval of the Inari Saami Wikipedia. Of course, my vote can be discarded since I'm involved in the project, but even if I weren't, I think this project should be approved since the quality of many articles is high enough that I use them as the source articles when creating articles into Northern Saami via translation. -K ------------------------------ *From:* Langcom &lt;langcom-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; on behalf of Jon Harald Søby &lt;jhsoby(a)gmail.com&gt; *Sent:* Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:16 PM *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee < langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; *Subject:* [Langcom] Proposed approval of Inari Sámi Wikipedia 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&… [3] https://robin.toolforge.org/?tool=codelookup&code=smn -- mvh Jon Harald Søby _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom