Hoi, I would be really pleased when you "prove" that the requirements for languages like these can be met. I would be positively happy. My advise make it a project with clearly timed goals. As to localisation the first objective is 50% of the most used messages. This is where the localisation update may kick in and where you get the messages in the incubator. Do not forget to localise the Babel extension. It makes a big difference in the use of Wikidata. When you start writing articles, Do whatever you like but from a demonstration pov do include a set of connected articles. Particularly about the own language and culture. Do reach out and do ask people to write about the subject they care about. I wish these projects well :) Thanks, Gerard On 11 July 2013 19:12, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the input! This is purely hypothetical at this point, but what would you think if we were to hire someone (on a short-term basis, of course) to do the translations of core messages? Would that diminish a request in any way? 2013/7/11 Amir E. Aharoni &lt;amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il&gt; -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>

Agreed with everything Gerard says. Just one note re This is where the localisation update may kick in and where you get the messages in the incubator. In fact currently policy of translatewiki.net is to require "18% of the core MediaWiki messages" (it results to ~500 messages, ie. the number of the most-used messages) [1] before they export anything for a newly localised language. I would love if we could convince them to lower that requirement, maybe at the same time an update of the list of most-used messages. I recently had a user on Incubator who made 400 translations and was rather frustrated that that was not enough to show up on Incubator. [1] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/MediaWiki#Translation_flow 2013/7/12 Gerard Meijssen &lt;gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com&gt;

Vi skal tale mer om det – han er også med i Wikimedia Norges styrelse. :-) 2013/7/14 Michael Everson &lt;everson(a)evertype.com&gt; -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>