Hi everyone,
I'm new at Wikipedia and I want to start a wiki in Upper Sorbian. Upper Sorbian is one of the 2 Sorbian languages spoken in East Germany in the Federal country of Saxony. The other Sorbian language (Lower Sorbian) si spoken in the Federal country of Brandenburg. The name of the region where both Sorbian languages are spoken is Lusatia. Uppe Sorbian is spoken in Southern part of Lusatia called Upper Lusatia. Upper Sorbian is spoken by ca. 40,000 people. You can already find some information about the Sorbian language in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbian_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Sorbian_language
What I have to do? AFAIK there must be translated the file Language.php and copied to LanguageHsb.php. This I've alread done and I wrapped the LangageHsb.php into a zip archive languagehsb.zip that you can find on:
http://www.michalupo.de/wikipedia/languagehsb.zip
I hope it will work. Could anybody create the domain http://hsb.wikipedia.org?
Thank you in advance and kind regards,
Michael Wolf
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:29:18AM +0200, Michael Wolf wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm new at Wikipedia and I want to start a wiki in Upper Sorbian. Upper
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is spoken by ca. 40,000 people. You can already find some information
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As a sidenote: Hungary have a population of 10,000,000 people (with speakers approximated around 15,000,000) and we have around 5 permanent active editors. (Though I expect that raise soon since there going to be some press activity.)
I always wondered what can a wikipedia do supporting a language of, say, 100,000 people. Half an editor?
I haven't checked what's about wikipedias with small speaker base after 3-6 months, what activity they possess. I wonder.
Do not misunderstand me, I am not against the new languages! They take up small disk space, subdomains are free, so they should be opened by all means, because it makes people happy to see their language supported.
I just wonder whether they serve a purpose after a while or not.
Peter
Michael Wolf wrote:
What I have to do? AFAIK there must be translated the file Language.php and copied to LanguageHsb.php. This I've alread done and I wrapped the LangageHsb.php into a zip archive languagehsb.zip that you can find on:
Whoa. Why did you do that?
Please post the file to http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/LanguageHsb.php instead. Don't forget to wrap it into <pre>...</pre> tags so it displays correctly. Also, please copy the paragraph about the GPL (see http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/LanguageFr.php for example).
Then encourage a few friends of yours to proofread it and make edits accordingly. When it's stable, notify us again :)
Timwi
Timwi napisa:
Michael Wolf wrote:
What I have to do? AFAIK there must be translated the file Language.php and copied to LanguageHsb.php. This I've alread done and I wrapped the LangageHsb.php into a zip archive languagehsb.zip that you can find on:
Whoa. Why did you do that?
Hi Timwi,
I thought it's better to wrap the binary php into a zip file. Seems I thought too complicatedly. Please excuse I'm new at Wikipedia.
Please post the file to http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/LanguageHsb.php instead. Don't forget to wrap it into <pre>...</pre> tags so it displays correctly. Also, please copy the paragraph about the GPL (see http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/LanguageFr.php for example).
Done.
Then encourage a few friends of yours to proofread it and make edits accordingly. When it's stable, notify us again :)
I posted into a Sorbian forum to find anybody who wants to to that.
Thank you for your help.
Best regards, Michael Wolf
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