Hi Mark,
You are probably missing some background on localisation within MediaWiki.
Iu, which is the code that is being used for Inuktitut in MediaWiki should in my opinion not have been a Wikipedia in a language. Inuktitut is a macro language that consists of 3 classified languages[1]:
* Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian [ike] (Canada) * Inuktitut, Greenlandic [kal] (Greenland) * Inuktitut, Western Canadian [ikt] (Canada)
Of the above three, Eastern Canadian Inuktitut appears to have the most speakers, so the UI 'iu' falls back to 'ike-cans', which is Eastern Canadian Inuktitut in Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. Eastern Canadian Inuktitut is also written in Latin script (ike-latn). So far we have had no luck in getting any active translators for the above languages, so that we only have what was in iu.wikipedia.org. If you know any, please point them in our direction. It would be very much appreciated.
As for Kurdish, that is currently supported in both Latin (ku-latn) and Arabic (ku-arab) script. 'ku' falls back to 'ku-latn'.
I hope the above makes clear to you that reporting on languages that are only being used as a redirect is useless and pollutes statistics. Hence they have been taken out.
As for Galician and Asturian: full blown localisation of those languages in the MediaWiki core product is definately very recent. I could also have named a few other languages.
Hope this makes things more clear to you.
Cheers!
Siebrand
P.s. I have today imported the MediaWiki messages from na.wikipedia.org to Betawiki. Your named came up as one of the editors to the mediawiki namespace in that wiki. Can you help...?
[1] http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=91178
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Mark Williamson Verzonden: donderdag 3 januari 2008 19:44 Aan: Wikimedia developers Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] An update on localisation in MediaWiki
Galician and Asturian are hardly new. Also, I'm not sure how Inuktitut or Kurdish serve usability purposes or are duplicates...
Mark