Dear all,

I've received the evaluation of a Kabiye language expert, Prof. Dr. Cecile Padayodi. She writes:

"I read a few of the articles and as a mother tongue speaker of the Kabiye language and also a linguist and a translator, I find that the orthography has been applied quite consistently. There are a few inconsistencies here and there, but that should not prevent the reader from understanding what is being said."

She sent more details on individual words but unless you insist, I won't send it all.

As I'm currently in rural Tanzania on a consulting trip with a full schedule and unreliable internet access, I would ask one of you to take the necessary steps to approve kbp:wp - thanks!

Best wishes,
Oliver

On 08-Feb-17 20:09, Milos Rancic wrote:

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org> wrote:

I've made the request [1] for a wikipedia in Kabiye [2] eligible. It's a
Niger-Congo language spoken by 975,000 people in Togo [3] (plus a few more
in Benin and Ghana). What is more, it's been active on the Incubator for a
while [4] and may even be ready for approval [5]. I've started to put my
feelers out for an independent scholar to verify the content (no leads yet,
though). If I don't hear a 'no', I'll intensify my search for a scholar /
Kabiye language expert after the 7-day deadline, i.e. from 16 February.

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kabye
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabye_language
[3]https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kbp
[4]https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kbp
[5]https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/kbp&wiki=incubatorwiki

Thanks, Oliver! I would encourage every LangCom member with enough of
Wikimedia experience and enough linguistic confidence to follow Oliver
and myself in making eligible obviously valid requests.

Oliver, there is one more page which needs an update [1], but I will
for sure check always check if you forgot it or not.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages

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