Have you gotten any replies from the Sylheti community about this?
Am Do., 15. Juni 2023 um 09:03 Uhr schrieb Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com
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> Hello, Amiu, and thank you for pointing this out! This is indeed something
> we should look into before making a final approval. The fact that there is
> an existing open-source converter looks promising, and hopefully we can
> adapt this to MediaWiki quite easily. I'll reach out to the Sylheti
> community to ask for their input as well.
>
> tor. 15. juni 2023 kl. 07:58 skrev MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> Von: Ami Keu <amitumi1234amitumi1234(a)gmail.com>
>> Date: Mi., 14. Juni 2023 um 23:21 Uhr
>> Subject: Fwd: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions
>> To: <langcom-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Ami Keu <amitumi1234amitumi1234(a)gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 14 June, 2023 at 10:05 PM
>> Subject: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions
>> To: jhsoby(a)wikimedia.no <jhsoby(a)wikimedia.no>
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>> Hi Jon,
>> I don't know if this is the correct email to write this.
>>
>> Thank you for initiating approval for Sylheti Wikipedia
>>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/langcom@lists.wikimedia.org/thr…
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>> I would like to point out one thing. Langcom should be aware that Sylheti
>> wikipedia uses sylheti nagri script. And not many sylheti people can
>> actually read or write this script. Most sylheti uses Bengali alphabet to
>> write sylheti (also see
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sylhetis#Sylheti_nagri_script )
>>
>> I can see there is a discussion about this on sylheti wikipedia:
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https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/syl/ꠝꠥꠟ_ꠚꠣꠔꠣ#আমার_সামান্য_এক_প…
>> where a sylheti pointed out that there is an organization did a survey and
>> found out only 12-25 thousands people can actually write or read this
>> script.
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>> There are c. 10.3 millions sylheti, which means sylheti wikipedia will
>> be un-accessible for vast majority of sylheti.
>>
>> There is also pointed out that possible solutions would be lang converter
>> like some wiki has. I would request langcom to create or ask developer to
>> create a lang converter for sylheti wikipedia. Mapping already exists, see
>>
https://github.com/mayeenulislam/nagri-bangla
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>> Thank you.
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