Dear Gerard,
Thank you for this email. I will let you know within a week if there is a problem from the
side of the board. Thank you (and everyone) once again for your efforts. I am happy to
hear that we are leveraging our knowledge of different languages to also make things like
searching commons in native language possible :)
Jan-Bart de Vreede
Chair
Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation
On 12 Nov 2013, at 10:02, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi Jan-Bart
When a new language is deemed "eligible" we, the language committee, inform the
chair of the board because he or she has a week to indicate that the board does not agree
with our recommendation. When the chair of the board does not reply a bug in bugzilla will
be asking for the new language.
At this time I ask formal permission for Ottoman Turkish to be exclusively used for
Wikidata and its applications. Ottoman Turkish is a historic language but with information
in this language we will be able to include the original name of something in an info-box
in any Wikipedia.
Jan-Bart we are likely to make requests like this for many living languages in the near
future as well because it is expected that in 6 months time development starts of
integrating Wikidata to Commons. This will make it possible to optimally search for
pictures in the native language of the children of this world. To a large extend this is
already possible for the "big"languages like Dutch. (It only requires a
relatively easy hack for this to happen.... Interested? )
Thanks,
Gerard