Does anyone know a linguist who can help with this?
I'm still looking.
Sent some emails here and there but a global pandemic is not making
things easy...
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:49 AM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
FYI: The other email sent to this mailing list is
not the case I
asked around (and I haven't got any response from the university
yet). Also the top signature there is actually the user behind
lrcwiki (you can find his name in archives).
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 1:02 AM MF-Warburg
<mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Am Fr., 9. Okt. 2020 um 02:20 Uhr schrieb Amir Sarabadani
<ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>om>:
Thanks.
Beside the general note that I'm requesting for closure not because
I don't understand the wiki (I don't understand Chinese Wikipedia,
I'm not requesting for its closure though, even several Iranian
languages like ckb that I don't understand, I'm actually helping
them to get on their feet, like see my bot's edits on ckbwiki [1])
but I'm requesting on the grounds that no Lur person I have talked
to (from diverse backgrounds, ages, rural/urban backgrounds,
different regions, etc.) couldn't understand the wiki. Actually fun
fact, my then-roommate in university dorm is Lur and from
Khorramabad and he was one of the first ones who said he couldn't
understand it. Laki and Luri Khorramabadi are completely different
things.
Re your general note - that should be clear to everyone and I hope
that the proponents of lrc.wikipedia don't come up with more such
nonsense which only makes them look bad.
Regarding renaming the wiki: (My sysadmin hat on) It's basically
impossible. We only renamed be-x-old to be-tarask and it still
causing issues (last month all interwiki links to be-tarask broke),
I have some plans to improve it, especially handling of
discrepancies between the dbname and dns name but it's going to take
a while. Also a rename is only redirecting the traffic from dns, the
database name stays the same (and it's definitely unchangeable for
lots of reasons, let me know if you want to know more). So if we
rename
lrc.wikipedia.org [2] to
lki.wikipedia.org [3], it still will
be named lrcwiki in the database and prevents us from having an
actual lrcwiki if the time comes.
(My sysadmin hat off). I don't understand the content but I have a
feeling it's not very much salvageable even for the lkiwiki (Imagine
pretending to be German Wikipedia but actually being written in
Dutch, it shows itself in the content too).
Thank you for reading my long emails :D
The easiest solution for a "rename" would probably be to create a
new wiki and do an import. But we are probably far away from this
being necessary here.
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