Hoi,
We are going to get a write-up by a linguist specialised in Konkani about
how he sees the issues around Konkani. It is REALLY complicated I already
know.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 9 January 2014 07:01, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>wrote;wrote:
The Konkani encyclopedia that they are using to seed
the new Wikipedia is
written in Devanagari, and this strengthens yet again the point that this
Wikipedia's main script should be Devanagari. I have not yet received any
data about how many of this language's speakers use each of the scripts.
This is repeatedly brought up as an issue, but only as generalities -
"Konkani uses many scripts", "There should be a script converter",
"Many
people use other scripts" - nothing more precise than that. Whenever I hear
anything practical and factual about publishing and education in this
language, however, it is always in Devanagari. So I suspect that Latin
localization is not quite useful on a Devanagari website. I am willing to
hear other arguments.
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2014/1/8 MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com>
The activity on Incubator was very good Aug-Dec
2013:
https://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/catanalysis/?cat=0&title=Wp/gom&…
We'll see whether it keeps up in this new year. However, a few points:
- We should make clear that we approve Goan Konkani = gom explicitly.
- According to ethnologue, Kannada and Latin script are used.
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Portal:Gom additionally lists Malayalam,
Devanagari and Arabic. It should be clear how they want to deal with this
on their Wikipedia. Are there script converters?
- Translation of the most-used messages is done for Latin script (<
https://toolserver.org/~robin/?tool=codelookup&code=gom-latn>)tn>), so no
need to give an exemption from that requirement.
Am 27.11.2013 15:41 schrieb "Amir E. Aharoni" <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>gt;:
Did they add anything from the encyclopedia to the incubator? If they
add a few articles as a sanity, I'll gladly
approve it.
Also, they need to decide which ISO code is it exactly - there are at
least two for Konkani.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2013/11/27 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
Hoi,
I just read this [1]. They will probably want to include this in their
Wikipedia and I am sure that it is better to do this in a Wikipedia than it
is to add it in the Incubator..
My proposal is to allow them a Wikipedia if we can get some assurances
that they will do asap the work needed for localisation..
Hope you concur.
Thanks,
Gerard
[1]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/26/konkani-vishkawosh-free-license/
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