That is fantastic. :D
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----- Reply message ----- From: "Pharos" pharosofalexandria@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 1:55 am Subject: [WikiX-l] Table on "wikipedia" in many languages for t-shirt and slideshow To: "Planning for WP 10th anniversary" wikix-l@lists.wikimedia.org
User:HelloAnnyong actually researched and made this after coming to our NYC party:
http://i54.tinypic.com/so72m9.jpg
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On 1/28/11, Neal McBurnett neal@mcburnett.org wrote:
Great news - I look forward to seeing it!
I have no idea if the source I noted at
http://az.wikipedikia.org/wiki/Vikipediya
is right, but FWIW, based on the names there I count 99 unique spellings. I've attached a list, sorted by the number of occurrences.
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:22:39AM -0800, Jay Walsh wrote:
It's really interesting that you bring this up, Neal. David Peters designed the shirt - a contract designer who has been working with WMF for over a year now on a variety of projects. He also developed the core Wikipedia 10 concept design.
He was telling me the other day that he has A) found a handful more scripts that weren't included in this design, and B) he's realized that he hasn't provided a code-key to explain what all of the languages are, and he's now working on a simple graphic to show the romanized/english variant of each name, and it seems that it would make sense per your point to include the abbreviated language designator of each too.
For the whole 250+ Wikipedias there are only about 60 different language character variations of the wordmark. The tagline 'the free encyclopedia' is different and unique in virtually every language, but the wordmark itself is not necessarily unique.
I'm not sure that's exactly what you were looking for, but I think it's a step in that direction.
jay
On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Neal McBurnett wrote:
I'm fascinated by the Wikipedia t-shirt design, which I assume has the names of a few dozen wikipedias in the native languages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-tshirt-languages.png
I also was inspired by the slide show shared here earlier. The wikipedia-images.zip file made it easy in that case to figure out which language each slide was in, since they seemingly were alphabetical by the iso code for the language (I think that's what it is), except for the first one which was 'en' for english. I've included the list of codes from that slideshow below - some two-letter, some three-letter, some more.
This prompts me to inquire about a nice compact file/table/database which would conveniently satisfy my many questions about each name, and could e.g. be used during the slide show to talk about each wikipedia:
The country code for the language The english name for the language The name of the writing script in which it is written How to pronounce it (sound bite, ipa, etc) Link to the wikipedia Link to the entry on the stats page for the wikipedia
etc. etc.
I figure I can at least hope for a nice table somewhere of data on each wikipedia: country code, link etc. from which I could derive some of the rest.
And a simple annotation of the t-shirt itself would be a fine place to start :)
Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/
en ab ace af ak als am ang an arc ar arz as ast av ay az ba bar bat-smg bcl be be-x-old bg bh bi bm bn bo bpy br bs bxr ca cbk-zam cdo ceb ce ch chr chy ckb co crh cr csb cs cv cy da de diq dsb dv dz ee el eml eo es et eu ext fa ff fi fiu-vro fj fo fr frp frr fur fy gan ga gd glk gl gn gu gv hak ha haw he hif hi hr hsb ht hu hy ia id ie ig ik ilo io is it iu ja jbo jv kaa kab ka kg ki kk kl km kn ko krc ksh ks ku kv kw ky lad la lbe lb lg lij li lmo ln lo lt lv map-bms mdf mg mhr mi mk ml mn mr ms mt mwl myv mzn nah na nap nds-nl nds ne new nl nn no nov nrm nv ny oc om or os pag pam pa pap pcd pdc pih pi pl2 pl pms pnb pnt ps pt qu rm