That is fantastic. :D
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From: "Pharos" <pharosofalexandria(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
User:HelloAnnyong actually researched and made this after coming to
our NYC party:
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On 1/28/11, Neal McBurnett <neal(a)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