Hi Mark,
You are probably missing some background on localisation within MediaWiki.
Iu, which is the code that is being used for Inuktitut in MediaWiki should
in
my opinion not have been a Wikipedia in a language. Inuktitut is a macro
language that consists of 3 classified languages[1]:
* Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian [ike] (Canada)
* Inuktitut, Greenlandic [kal] (Greenland)
* Inuktitut, Western Canadian [ikt] (Canada)
Of the above three, Eastern Canadian Inuktitut appears to have the most
speakers, so the UI 'iu' falls back to 'ike-cans', which is Eastern
Canadian
Inuktitut in Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. Eastern Canadian
Inuktitut
is also written in Latin script (ike-latn). So far we have had no luck in
getting any active translators for the above languages, so that we only have
what was in
iu.wikipedia.org. If you know any, please point them in our
direction. It would be very much appreciated.
As for Kurdish, that is currently supported in both Latin (ku-latn) and
Arabic
(ku-arab) script. 'ku' falls back to 'ku-latn'.
I hope the above makes clear to you that reporting on languages that are
only
being used as a redirect is useless and pollutes statistics. Hence they have
been taken out.
As for Galician and Asturian: full blown localisation of those languages in
the MediaWiki core product is definately very recent. I could also have
named
a few other languages.
Hope this makes things more clear to you.
Cheers!
Siebrand
P.s. I have today imported the MediaWiki messages from
na.wikipedia.org to
Betawiki. Your named came up as one of the editors to the mediawiki
namespace in that wiki. Can you help...?
[1]
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=91178
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Mark Williamson
Verzonden: donderdag 3 januari 2008 19:44
Aan: Wikimedia developers
Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] An update on localisation in MediaWiki
Galician and Asturian are hardly new. Also, I'm not sure how Inuktitut or
Kurdish serve usability purposes or are duplicates...
Mark