[Wikimedia-l] Language committee report, August 2012

[MF-Warburg]

Please find below the Language committee report for August, or read the
wiki version at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2012-08

===Committee===
*Please see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_between_Wikimedia_and_Endangered_Languages_Projectfor
the cooperation with
http://endangeredlanguages.com which was already mentioned last month.

===Requests and approvals===
*Basa Sunda Wikibooks has been closed [1]
*Some discussion about the request for a Manchu Wikipedia, which is now
going to be developed on Incubator ([2]), preliminarily in Latin script
until technical requirements are met.
*The request for a Korean Wikiversity might be revisited in September
[3][4].
*The request for a Vilamovian Wikipedia [5] has been verified as eligible.
*The Wikipedia in Livonian [6] is likely to get approved, pending
verification of the content.

===Other===
*Langcom suggests to create a mobile phone application that allows easy
uploading of audio or video recording to Commons, and putting them on a
Wikipedia or Wiktionary page of the recorded word or concept; as such
recordings are a good way to help (endangered) languages on WMF projects.
The current app that was developed for uploading Wiki Loves Monuments
entries could probably be easily adapted, if there is a developer who would
like to attend to do this.
*An appreciable outreach project has lead to a high number of contributions
in the Yucatec Wikipedia test project on Incubator this month.

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Basa_Sunda_Wikibooks_%282%29
[2] https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mnc
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiversity_Korean
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#About_establishing_Korean_Wikiversity
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Vilamovian
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Livonian
[7]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/15/translating-wikipedia-to-the-language-of-the-maya/

On a related note, a new mailing list has been created which might be
interesting for everyone interested in languages on Wikimedia projects,
including concerns and issues and projects to promote and develop small
languages; partly arising from Langcom discussions, see
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/languages.