2011/7/1 Milos Rancic :
> As Russia is fairly developed country, it is likely that reaching people
> who speak those languages and teaching them how to use Wikimedia
> projects would the task for WM RU. Besides that, I think that all
> languages of Russia have writing systems and support in Unicode
On 07/01/2011 01:24 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> Milosh, thanks for your work. Just to correct: Moksha, Erzya, Yakut
> (=Sakha), Komi-Zyrian (=Komi) and Lak all have Wikipedias (though
> admittedly for Lak I am the only active contributor). Adyge is almost
> identical to Kabardino-Circassian, a
2011/7/1 Yaroslav M. Blanter :
> Adyge is almost
> identical to Kabardino-Circassian, and Adyge speakers probably will never
> have their own Wikipedia.
From what i hear about this, Adyge and Kabardian may be two varieties
of a Circassian [[macrolanguage]]. Maybe someone who cares about it
will su
Milosh, thanks for your work. Just to correct: Moksha, Erzya, Yakut
(=Sakha), Komi-Zyrian (=Komi) and Lak all have Wikipedias (though
admittedly for Lak I am the only active contributor). Adyge is almost
identical to Kabardino-Circassian, and Adyge speakers probably will never
have their own Wikipe
More data could be found at [1]. It is about coverage of languages by
Wikimedia projects by size of population, logarithmic.
Numbers are not a surprise.
[1]
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=tCwO11tFPLPB-SJafDesypg&authkey=CPCE5pMB#gid=1
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On 06/27/2011 12:30 AM, M. Williamson wrote:
> Some of these actually already have Wikipedias:
>
> Meadow Mari
> Yakut (aka Sakha)
> Lak
> Balkar (aka Karachay-Balkar)
> Yiddish, Eastern (= "standard" Yiddish, "Western Yiddish" is the one we are
> missing but it has much fewer speakers; according
Some of these actually already have Wikipedias:
Meadow Mari
Yakut (aka Sakha)
Lak
Balkar (aka Karachay-Balkar)
Yiddish, Eastern (= "standard" Yiddish, "Western Yiddish" is the one we are
missing but it has much fewer speakers; according to Ethnologue there are
only 5,400 around the world)
In addi
On 06/25/2011 03:11 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:
> I posted this on the India list (many people are not subscribed to
> foundation-l) - forwarding this question which just popped up.
First of all, although numbers look fascinatingly precise, they are far
from that. When you make a sum of approximatio
] Languages and numbers
To: Wikimedia India Community list
It is fascinating, although I think I may not have understood the
classifications. Is there only one Indian Sign Language, for instance? I was
told by a user (in the UK) that several are in use in different parts of the
country. Still, perhaps the
Forwarding Deryk Chan's email and my response on his request.
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Internal-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Languages and numbers
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:55:58 +0200
From: Milos Rancic
To: Deryck Chan
On 06/25/2011 01:28 PM, Deryck Chan wrote:
> (s
Hi,
On 25 Jun 2011, at 05:52, Milos Rancic wrote:
> While preparing Missing Wikipedias [1], I've got numbers of speakers and
> languages by area and country with chapter not covered by Wikipedias.
Fascinating! Thanks for the work! :-)
Isabell.
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While preparing Missing Wikipedias [1], I've got numbers of speakers and
languages by area and country with chapter not covered by Wikipedias.
Numbers are preliminary, some of them should be corrected. I didn't
exclude Han languages, which mostly shouldn't be counted, and similar.
Note, also, that
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