[Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The language committee has had the sad experience that people suggested that
a Wikipedia was in a particular language while it was not. There are still
Wikipedias where people native to a language object to it because they do
not recognise it as properly written in their language. We have tried to end
such projects and there was no consensus to be had. As a consequence we are
looking for external confirmation that what is written in a language is
indeed written in that language. This can only be done ahead of the creation
of a new project.

Finding an external expert who is willing to provide us with such
confirmation is not always easy. As to Sakha I am really happy with this
project it is one of the best examples of why new Wikipedias make sense.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 24 August 2010 09:18, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:29:01 +0300, "Amir E. Aharoni"
> <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> > 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]).
> >
>
> Now it may sound like a joke, but the opening of Sakha Wikipedia had been
> delayed some two years ago because the Language Committee did not believe
> that the Incubator pages have actually been written in Sakha. Now this is
> one of the most dynamic Turkic language projects, and I am proud to be a
> regular editor of this Wiki.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
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