Hi --- an Indonesian Wikimedian here.
I've followed the Balinese project since LangCamp 2012
<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/LangCamp_2012> and I can vouch for
their approval. The community is focused in Denpasar and has been
well-supported
<https://id.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pengembangan_Komunitas_APG_2019/Komunitas_Denpasar>
by Wikimedia Indonesia in past two years; they even have their own
community co-ordinator and regularly-scheduled edit-a-thons.
Should the Committee need to be in touch of any person in academia, I
can refer to the Balinese Studies department
<https://fib.unud.ac.id/pages/view/sastra-bali> at Universitas Udayana;
although I think that Tjahja and Revi themselves are sufficient, they both
speak and write Balinese to a level.
*Ramzy Muliawan*
linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramzym> / keybase
<https://keybase.io/ramzy> / meta.wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Muhraz>
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 2:48 PM Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I asked Biyanto Rebin from Wikimedia Indonesia,
and he writes:
Dear Jon,
>
> Yes. It is definitely Balinese language. I know the community very
> well and since last year, they have held a lot of meetups and editathon
> events, that is why they are very active.
>
> Best wishes,
>
I also asked Revi Soekatno (User:Meursault2004) on Facebook, and he
writes:
Yes it unmistakenly Balinese and some articles are very nice
>
That should be enough confirmation, no? If not we could reach out to
BASABali like Eddie suggested.
tor. 26. sep. 2019 kl. 18:07 skrev Eddie Avila <eddie(a)globalvoices.org
>:
> Maybe Wikimedia Indonesia is already in touch with the BASABali
> organization, but if not, I can put them in touch with their staff.
>
>
https://basabali.org
>
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2019, at 10:53, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
> I support this, and I was just about to propose this myself.
>
> I already spoke about this to Tjahja Wirjadisastra from Wikimedia
> Indonesia, and he approves it, so I would say it's good to go.
>
> בתאריך יום ה׳, 26 בספט׳ 2019, 18:39, מאת Jon Harald Søby <
> jhsoby(a)gmail.com>gt;:
>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I would like to suggest approving Wikipedia in Balinese
>> <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ban> at
ban.wikipedia.org.
>> The Incubator wiki has had a lot of activity, with more than 1,300 articles
>> – of which a random sample looks very promising. The most used messages and
>> more have been translated
>>
<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:LanguageStats?language=ban&x=D>,
>> and there is steady activity
>>
<https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&&limit=250&days=20&testwiki=Wp/ban>
>> in Incubator.
>>
>> As for experts, I think it would suffice to contact someone in
>> Wikimedia Indonesia to confirm this language – it is, after all, a
>> relatively well-known language, at least in the region, so it should be an
>> easy task for them to confirm its validity.
>>
>> --
>> mvh
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