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(a)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(a)wikimedia.am>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
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenian
2.
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
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