[Wikipedia-l] About creating a new language on Wikipedia

[GerardM]

ABSOLUTELY

The user interface is typically maintained by the admins of a language. When
there is a need for some technical constructs the developers may change or
add messages.

The only requirement we have is that a language can be recognised for what
it is said to be. Practically it means that we insist that a language is
recognised in the ISO 639 standard. Recognition for these languages can be
had.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 7/16/07, Rodolfo M Vega <rmvega at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> The "language invention" must be done by the native speakers of that
> language. This is what native speakers of Amerindian languages are
> fighting for, and are part of United Nations agreements and conventions
> on language rights for native peoples. I am working with Maya, Mapuche
> and Aymara, from the Americas, in this issue. Soon, they will ask to
> have Wikipedia in their own language, including the interface, done by
> themselves, and not by an "expert gringo". Is this possible based on
> your "rules"?
> Rodolfo'
>
> Delirium wrote:
> > Berto 'd Sera wrote:
> >
> >> The only requests I am receiving are about totally clearing from
> english
> >> other UIs. You might be surprised, but the highest pressure comes from
> young
> >> (15-20 y.o.) bilingual users, who are native or almost native in
> english,
> >> too. It has nothing to do with liking english or not, it's about using
> a
> >> language for what it's meant to do: to deliver a clear message.
> >>
> >> The choice of words really depends on what's current in your language.
> In
> >> our case even if the dominant culture has long become industrial and it
> >> would take you ages to find a horse anywhere, there still are lots of
> >> metaphores originating from the farmers' life. Sometimes their roots
> are
> >> incredibly old.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > This seems somewhat different than advertised.  Localizing an interface
> > to a language means making it be *in that language*.  Coining new terms
> > to use in the interface, even if based on other words in the language,
> > does not make the interface in that language.  Rather, it makes it in a
> > new language (or dialect, at least), invented at Wikipedia.
> >
> > "Purified" languages, in which loanwords are purged and replaced with
> > neologisms based on "native" roots, are often created, and sometimes
> > they succeed and sometimes they fail.  See [[en:Katharevousa]] for an
> > example of a purified Greek that eventually more or less failed.
> > Regardless of the merits of such a project, I don't think it appropriate
> > for *us* to engage in such language-invention.
> >
> > -Mark
> >
> >
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