[Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

[Ting Chen]

  Congratulations.

Am 24.08.2010 08:29, wrote Amir E. Aharoni:
> Some good news: The Sakha Wiki community keeps being surprisingly
> active. I don't know this language, but i read the mailing list of
> that community, which is mostly written in Russian, and often
> contribute to it (i also asked to migrate that list to Wikimedia
> servers and it will probably happen soon [1]).
>
> Unlike many other minor-language communities that created a few
> articles and stalled, this one is somewhat slowly, but very surely,
> going on for years. Their Wikipedia is properly localized and they
> recently passed the 7000 article mark. There are many short stubs, but
> they are written by people and not just bots, which is quite
> promising.
>
> To celebrate the 7000th article, HalanTul, one of the prominent
> community members, wrote a blog post about it and about the basics of
> editing Wikipedia in general.[2] It is in Russian and a little Sakha,
> but you may find the illustrations interesting. It shows what to do
> with red links (make them blue!), how to use basic markup (bold,
> heading) and how to work with links and categories. Note that the
> screenshots use the new Vector skin.
>
> HalanTul is also quite active in cultural organizations: He goes to
> meetings of organizations that promote regional languages -
> governmental and NGO's, Russian and international, including UNESCO
> and blogs about it, too.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24676
> [2] http://dnevniki.ykt.ru/viewcomment.aspx?uid=7781&mid=412622
>


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Ting

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