[Wikimedia-l] Language committee report, August 2012

Please find below the Language committee report for August, or read the wiki version at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2012-08 ===Committee=== *Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_between_Wikimedia_and_Endangere… the cooperation with http://endangeredlanguages.com which was already mentioned last month. ===Requests and approvals=== *Basa Sunda Wikibooks has been closed [1] *Some discussion about the request for a Manchu Wikipedia, which is now going to be developed on Incubator ([2]), preliminarily in Latin script until technical requirements are met. *The request for a Korean Wikiversity might be revisited in September [3][4]. *The request for a Vilamovian Wikipedia [5] has been verified as eligible. *The Wikipedia in Livonian [6] is likely to get approved, pending verification of the content. ===Other=== *Langcom suggests to create a mobile phone application that allows easy uploading of audio or video recording to Commons, and putting them on a Wikipedia or Wiktionary page of the recorded word or concept; as such recordings are a good way to help (endangered) languages on WMF projects. The current app that was developed for uploading Wiki Loves Monuments entries could probably be easily adapted, if there is a developer who would like to attend to do this. *An appreciable outreach project has lead to a high number of contributions in the Yucatec Wikipedia test project on Incubator this month. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_B… [2] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mnc [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiversity_Kore… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#About_establishing_… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Vilamo… [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Livoni… [7] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/15/translating-wikipedia-to-the-language… On a related note, a new mailing list has been created which might be interesting for everyone interested in languages on Wikimedia projects, including concerns and issues and projects to promote and develop small languages; partly arising from Langcom discussions, see https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/languages.