I support this too; and the fact that almost all supporters (there are no opposers) on the proposal page are Ghanaians is telling.
I can help fix the technical details of moving content from akwiki to twwiki when the time comes.
man. 30. mai 2022 kl. 15:07 skrev Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org:
(from my observation of the Ghanaian community, with which I've had regular contact over the years, I support this.)
A.
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On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:56 AM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Ak...
I think that the proposal is sensible:
- ak is a macro language code ( https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/aka ),
which includes Twi (tw) and Fante (fat). Avoiding macro language codes is in line with our general policy.
- Anecdotally, over the years, lots of people from Ghana told me about
their confusion about where they should write, and in which variety.
- Less anecdotally, there has been good activity in the incubator and
translatewiki in Fante (fat): translatewiki: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:Fat incubator: https://meta.toolforge.org/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/fat&...
- There are fewer than 600 articles in ak.wikipedia, and it won't be too
hard to move the good content to tw.wikipedia.
- There's much more activity in tw.wikipedia than in ak.wikipedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Ak...
- There have been no objections on the discussion page since it was
created a month ago.
So I'd suggest approving that. I'd further suggest removing Akan as a language for MediaWiki localization: there are almost no translations into it, and almost all of those that exist are identical to the translations of the same strings into Twi ( https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate?filter=translated&actio... )
All that said, I have been talking a lot to editors from Ghana in the last few years, and some of them are personal friends, so it's possible I have a conflict of interest or an incomplete understanding of how things work there. Other opinions are welcome.
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