Support Berom language

Support Berom language

I'd like to translate MediaWiki into the Berom language. The language code is bom

Ladyyop (talk)15:58, 15 November 2022

For now you can register yourself on your user page in a "#babel" box to show your language level. This will link your user page to the Portal:Bom page. That portal page (and its parent category with its subcategories) is still displaying the "disabled" status banner. Do not remove these status from the portal, until a site admin enables the translation (You can check if it's enabled by looking at bottom of Special:ActiveLanguages/bom: it will show an error banner as long as it has not been enabled). But you can also register in the portal page in its list of "translators" if you intend to translate to that language or review translations.

Note that even if English Wikipedia states that Berom (or Birom) is spoken by about 1 million people in Nigeria (a very significant number), there's still no other Incubator wiki initiated (could be for Wikipedia or Wiktionary, depending on priorities: developping a Wikipedia in not the first goal for translations, but a Wiktionary would be useful for developing a common terminology or orthography; the alternative is to develop that in another Wikipedia, or in Wikisource if there are publications and books to transcribe as useful references to start building a Wikitionary: such wiki can then help create and maintain a good translation here for the MediaWiki UI or for other software projects; when the UI becomes translated, then it becomes useful to develop a Wikipedia, but IMHO it should be secondary and a Wiktionary should come first).

Note also that you can add translations in Wikidata for topic items or for lexems, without needing any wiki (and this will be easier later with Wikifunction whose focus will be to better support minority languages to generate some draft articles for other wikis, with help of Wikidata items, lexems, and custom linguistic "functions"). But if you start translating here and there's no Wiktionary and no other incubator or reference page, it will be useful to start translating a basic glossary (you'll get some links for that possibly posted on your user page by the site admin if it enables your language, and have registered it in the "babel" box of your user page).

Verdy p (talk)19:33, 15 November 2022
 

This is now enabled.

Amir E. Aharoni (talk)10:11, 6 December 2022