Request 10 languages of Indigenous Taiwanese

Request 10 languages of Indigenous Taiwanese

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OPEN This issue is open, waiting for action by Vickylin77s

Waiting for activity and translators on the existing supported languages and more information of the expected activity in the others. PS: currently we enabled Wikidata Monolingual language support for a lot of languages in this group, that could be helpful when analysising them.

Hello, I'm Vicky, assistant of Center for Aboriginal Studies(ALCD). Now we are incubating some Wikipedia for languages of Indigenous Taiwanese. The page on incubator says that we need to localize into our language.

Indigenous Taiwanese have 16 ethnic groups, 15 languages. Now we are going to localize 10 languages. They areː

Bunun - isoːbnn Hla'alua - isoːsxr Kavalan - isoːckv Kanakanavu - isoːxnb Paiwan - iso:pwn Puyuma - iso:pyu Rukai - iso:dru Tao - iso:tao Thao - iso:ssf Tsou - iso:tsu Please help us. Thank you.

Vickylin77s (talk)‎07:43, 31 July 2017

When you say "we are going to localize 10 languages", do you mean you already have translators and resources to translate MediaWiki core fully?

Nemo (talk)‎08:14, 31 July 2017

Maybe asking @Akamycoco:? Anyway I created portal pages like before.

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)‎09:42, 31 July 2017
 

I suggest that you start by making your translators register here and help them translate the existing supported languages. Despite being added months ago they all have zero or near-zero translations, except tay which has a small amount of translations (about 300, compared to ~3000 in MediaWiki core).

Nemo (talk)‎08:17, 31 July 2017

We organized three-day workshops several times in July and August for translating Wikipedia pages, and there are two reasons why we edit pages slowly: First, editors are not good at using computer, most of them are elders. Second, many words or terminologies do not have translation in indigenous languages, editors need to discuss with their tribal members or need to come up with translation. Generally, the work is in progress.

Vickylin77s (talk)‎06:25, 2 August 2017

Sure. Translating MediaWiki should be easier (at least for the least technical terms), because the interface is more friendly and there are no special policies to take into account. So I encourage you to make them try translatewiki.net in the next workshops you have (on the languages which are already enabled).

Nemo (talk)‎10:05, 2 August 2017

Thanks for your advice! We will try it in the following workshop.

Vickylin77s (talk)‎03:35, 3 August 2017
 

"Tao - iso:tao" why not saying it as Yami?

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)‎14:53, 2 August 2017
 
 

Anyway, as some small steps, I requested Wikidata monolingual codes requests, see tasks phab:T174227 to phab:T174238 of phab:T144272

Liuxinyu970226 (talk)‎02:02, 27 August 2017

I uploaded patch on gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/374052/

But need +2 to changes be deployed.

Zoranzoki21 (talk)‎15:52, 27 August 2017
 
 
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