I have contacted a German colleague who works in Teheran to ask his
linguist colleagues there. I haven't gotten any reply so far, though.
Best,
jan


Am 16.11.2020 03:14, schrieb Amir Sarabadani:
> 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@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@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Am Fr., 9. Okt. 2020 um 02:20 Uhr schrieb Amir Sarabadani
>> <ladsgroup@gmail.com>:
>>
>> 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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> Links:
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> [1]
> https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%AA:%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%B4%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DB%8C%DB%95%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86/Dexbot
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