Hoi,
What is the current status as to localisation, the number of articles ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 15:37, Steven White <Koala19890(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Please see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Prussi…
.
Prussian was considered to have gone extinct in the 18th century, and for
a while was listed in ISO 639-3 as "extinct". Indeed, that was the
situation when the project was first proposed in 2007. However, in 2009,
its listing in ISO was changed from "extinct" to "living", due to a
robust
effort to revive the language. Indeed, the Wikipedia article
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Prussian_language#Revived_Old_Prussian>
suggests that there are now a few children who are natively bilingual.
The revival effort is not based on this Wikipedia. The test project has
been moderately active over the years, but certainly not at a level that
would start us contemplating approval. But to me this is further evidence
that the revival is real and legitimate on its own, and not the very reason
for a Prussian Wikipedia project.
One person commenting on the request page suggests that prg should not be
the language code for the revival. Still, the fact that the ISO listing was
changed to "living" suggests that at least for now, the standards authority
is willing to accept that, so we should be, too.
Accordingly, I recommend that this project be marked "eligible".
Steven
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