This is really great! Congratulations to this success to both of you, Wikimedia Armenia and the Gulbenkian Foundation!
I really appreciate to see that creating and preserving Free Knowledge can have such an influence on official language policies :)
Best regards Cornelius
On 1 February 2018 at 00:00, Delphine Ménard dmenard@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations to Wikimedia Armenia for those truly great efforts!
best,
Delphine
2018-01-31 11:39 GMT+01:00 David Saroyan saroyandavid@wikimedia.am:
Dear all,
I'm pleased to announce that the efforts of Wikimedia Armenia to get separate ISO 639-3 language code for Western Armenian [1] were finally succeeded. SIL International, the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority,
decided
to create the code element [hyw] for Western Armenian. [2]
We initiated this process three years ago when we started the
collaboration
with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [3] in order to foster and
improve
free content in Western Armenian. This resulted in "Western Armenian project" where Wikimedia Armenia through different events and activities started to disseminate and support the creation of Western Armenian
content
with the help of local and diasporan Western Armenian community members.
From the launch of the "Western Armenian project" we were challenged with the problem that Western Armenian has no ISO 639-3 language code which
did
not allow the community to split Western Armenian content into a separate language Wikipedia. This problem made lots of trouble for us, as hy.wiki often had two versions of the same page.
Wikimedia Armenia with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation eventually decided
to
apply for code split. [4] This was done mainly with the help of Michael Everson. [5] Besides WM AM and Armenian Communities Department of
Calouste
Gulbenkian foundation there were also other parties involved, such as the department of Armenian Studies of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris and other academic institutions.
Today is a special day for Wikimedia Armenia and Western Armenian
speaking
community as our proposal was accepted. Thanks all Wikimedians who supported us in this work.
Best, Davit Saroyan Program Manager Wikimedia Armenia
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_ Comments_2017-023.pdf 3. https://gulbenkian.pt/en/ 4. http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2017-023.pdf 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Everson _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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