I agree with you when saying the communities are too small to sustain two
editions of Wikipedia, and that's why I even think Innu dialects should
remain on the main Cree Wikipedia, hence my question about how effectively
index all dialects to make it easy to find them and for contributor of
another dialect to use them to translate in its own dialect.
I just remembered that I had created a stub for a main page 8 months ago
to try to show how we could sort all dialects on the Cree Wikipedia:
What do you think?
Thanks,
JP
2012/9/6 Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:54 PM, JP Béland
<lebo.beland(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Good day Milos (and others if you know about
that),
I'd like to investigate that more please if you could assist me. My
contact
at the Cree Cultural Institute (after I told him
we could create an
Innu
Wikipedia separate from the Cree one which has
Innu articles right
now) that
we (may) should divide the Innu into dialects as
well because of huge
phonological differences between West and East. On Ethnologue, where
Innu is
called Montagnais (ISO code moe), they mention
Western Montagnais and
Eastern Montagnais (exactly as described by the guy from the Cree
Cultural
Insitute), but they don't mention any
"sub-codes" for those. See
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=moe .
That being said, what would be the advantages of having those codes
for the
"sub-dialects"? I mean, the intent is
not to have separate Wikipedias.
It's
perfectly possible to sort the articles according
to those dialect on
one
Wikipedia without having codes.
If the information on Ethnologue is correct, it suggests implicitly
that there is one standard language; or that the differences between
the dialects are not big.
But, anyway, no matter of differences, the population is too small to
be able to drive two Wikipedia editions. I suggest creating one Innu
Wikipedia with possibility to write in all dialects. Or, if possible,
to create a kind of conversion engine in the future, so all
communities would be able to contribute and read in their own dialect
on the same pages.
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