Language committee report - July 2011

See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-07

This is the language committee report for July 2011, written in Haifa,
Israel (Wikimania 2011) thanks to the scholarship provided to me by
the Catalan Associació Amical Viquipèdia.

=== Committee ===
Some talk about membership of the LangCom and closing projects.

=== Approvals ===
The Mingrelian Wikipedia (xmf.wikipedia.org) has been created.

=== Eligibility ===
Discussion about the request for a Wikipedia in Tunisian Arabic.

=== Related ===
Thanks to Ryan Kaldari
(<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-July/054328.html>),
the Wikimedia Foundation is now an official liaison member of the
Unicode Consortium.

Incubator extension update: info pages

Hi,

The Incubator-specific extension has been updated. The most notable
new feature is that the welcome pages for non-existing info pages are
now live on Incubator. For example
<http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nl> refers you to the Dutch
Wikipedia and <http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/xmf> tells you
that it doesn't exist yet.

Some more info in my previous post:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/incubator/2011-July/000042.html
Detailed info: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikimediaIncubator

Regards,
Robin

Re: [Langcom-l] Incubator extension update: info pages

Language commitee report - August 2011

See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-08

This is the language committee report for August 2011.

=== Committee ===
* Wikimedia Australia and Wikimedia Indonesia are collaborating with
the language committee to organise a 2012 Languages Conference in
Indonesia. More info:
http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Proposal:2012_Languages_conference

=== Requests ===
* Discussion about the request for a Northern Sotho Wikipedia. It
lacks activity, but it has been in the Incubator for years while
having the highest number of articles in a indigenous South African
language.
* Discussion about the request for a Lezgi Wikipedia. One very active
editor, but more contributors are needed.
No formal approval (yet), but both or one of them may be approved soon.

=== Related ===
* The ISO 639-3 standard decided not to retire the language code
'www', even though it conflicts with websites like the
'www.wikipedia.org' portal. The code 'www' is assigned to Wawa, a
language of Cameroon spoken by about 3000 people.
* The Wikimedia Incubator now has "welcome pages" -- for example
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nl links to the Dutch Wikipedia
at http://nl.wikipedia.org/ while
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/aa says that it doesn't exist
and invites users to start that project. This will in the future
replace general "wiki does not exist" placeholders. More info:
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/08/wikimedia-incubator-improvements.html