Hoi,
If anything it is proof that a quality standard allows for change.
In Michael Everson, a member of the standards world, we have someone who
was asked to become a member of the Wikimedia language committee. Over the
years he has provided us with several important services. This is only one.
Once we had a really strong team of people who were at the forefront of
language technology. There is no longer the same attention for supporting
languages and the scripts used by languages. What is done at this time by
people like Santosh is done in their spare time. We could do more and we
don't. We do not support the SignWriting font even though it will support
all sign languages.
Yes, congratulations are due to Michael, to ISO, to the people who took
their time to champion the Western Armenian language and indeed, the result
is wonderful.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1 February 2018 at 18:23, Alphos OGame <alphos.ogame(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That's fantastic !
Proof, if it was ever needed, that the Wikimedia movement can have an
effect on the "outside world" other than collecting and providing
information ; Wikimedia Armenia actually took the leading part in bettering
an international standard !
My most heartfelt congratulations :-)
Alphos
Le 1 févr. 2018 à 00:00, Delphine Ménard
<dmenard(a)wikimedia.org> a
écrit :
Congratulations to Wikimedia Armenia for those truly great efforts!
best,
Delphine
2018-01-31 11:39 GMT+01:00 David Saroyan <saroyandavid(a)wikimedia.am>am>:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that the efforts of Wikimedia Armenia to get
> separate ISO 639-3 language code for Western Armenian [1] were finally
> succeeded. SIL International, the ISO 639-3 Registration Authority,
decided
> to create the code element [hyw] for Western
Armenian. [2]
>
> We initiated this process three years ago when we started the
collaboration
> with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [3]
in order to foster and
improve
> free content in Western Armenian. This
resulted in "Western Armenian
> project" where Wikimedia Armenia through different events and activities
> started to disseminate and support the creation of Western Armenian
content
> with the help of local and diasporan Western
Armenian community members.
>
> From the launch of the "Western Armenian project" we were challenged
with
> the problem that Western Armenian has no ISO
639-3 language code which
did
> not allow the community to split Western
Armenian content into a
separate
> language Wikipedia. This problem made lots of
trouble for us, as
hy.wiki
> often had two versions of the same page.
>
> Wikimedia Armenia with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation eventually
decided to
> apply for code split. [4] This was done
mainly with the help of Michael
> Everson. [5] Besides WM AM and Armenian Communities Department of
Calouste
> Gulbenkian foundation there were also other
parties involved, such as
the
> department of Armenian Studies of the
Institut National des Langues et
> Civilisations Orientales, Paris and other academic institutions.
>
> Today is a special day for Wikimedia Armenia and Western Armenian
speaking
community
as our proposal was accepted. Thanks all Wikimedians who
supported us in this work.
Best,
Davit Saroyan
Program Manager
Wikimedia Armenia
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Armenian
2.
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/PastComments/CR_
Comments_2017-023.pdf
3.
https://gulbenkian.pt/en/
4.
http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/cr_files/2017-023.pdf
5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Everson
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