Dear GerardM excuseme because I didn't replay your message before. Thank you for your attention. Surely I will need your (and of others) cooperation in the next months.
Wilmar 2008/12/3 Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hoi, > I had a look and Kaingang has been recognised as a language, its code is > kgp. The place to make your request is on Meta. There are some requirements > for new languages, among them is a need for the localisation of the most > important messages for MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia. You can > start on the incubator, when there is a sufficiently big corpus and when > there is continued cooperation on the new project, a new Wikipedia will be > added in time. :) > Thanks, > GerardM > > > 1 http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=kgp > 2 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages > 3 http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > > 2008/12/3 Wilmar DAngelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Dear friends, > > I am linguist, working in a major Brazilian university (UNICAMP), and I > > have > > worked with and researched the language of the indigenous people Kaingang > > more than 30 years. On behalf of a group of teachers, who are native > > speakers of Kaingang (one of the six indigenous languages of Brazil with > > the > > largest number of speakers) would like to request the creation of a > > Wikipedia in that language. The objectives are: (i) enlarge the > democratic > > character of the web, which the Wikipedia is a model, (ii) give greater > > visibility to minority languages, and (iii) strengthen the Kaingang > > language, (iv) encourage the emergence of indigenous writers. > > I appreciate that you could help us in this endeavor to succeed. > > Next week we met (myself, with three volunteers students with about 20 > > Kaingang teachers, in the largest Indian reservation of them, called > > Guarita, to give way to questions related to this proposal). > > I await your comments. > > Regards. > > > > Wilmar da Rocha D'Angelis > > www.portalkaingang.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikipedia-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > -- Projeto Webindigena Prof. Wilmar R. D'Angelis - UNICAMP KAMURI - Núcleo de Cultura, Educação, Etnodesenvolvimento e Ação Ambiental www.kamuri.org.br www.portalkaingang.org _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
