Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Lower Silesian
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Lower Silesian Wikipedia
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Lower Silesian (Schläsch, sli ISO 639-3)
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Lower Silesian is a language spoken in parts of present-day Poland that were formerly German, the Czech Republic and in the German district of Görlitz.
It has ISO 639-3 codes which is sli.
It was in endanger in Time after the 2th war but is now again adopted by many young people. It has great litereray tradition. Major canonical written art of Germany has portions of Schlesisch in it, especially by poet and playwrighter en:Gerhart Hauptmann who much renowned is and taught at the schools always.
Arguments in favour
- Support A good chance to revive the language. Besides has a developed written form. Timpul 00:10, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
- Let's do it!Qrc2006 17:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- Support: many pages and much activity. It's a pity the localisation hasn't been finished yet. --OosWesThoesBes 17:09, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Support Jonny84 19:04, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
- Support Now the "most used messages" have been translated on translatewiki.net. Holder 12:06, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
- Support, looks fine & users seems very interested in developing the project. Thanks, —Dferg (talk) 15:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Arguments against
See also
- en:Province of Lower Silesia
- en:Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis
- en:Landsmannschaft Schlesien
- en:German minority in Poland
- de:Schlesisches Wochenblatt
Other discussion
The language is called Lower Silesian.. Not Silesian German, this is not even considered to be an alternate name. GerardM 06:55, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
- I disagree. First of all it isn't a language, it's a (or a group of) dialect(s) of the German language. Secondly the term Lower Silesian seems to be incorrect. And the alternate name Lower Schlesisch (a mix of English and German) sounds very funny. I prefer the term Silesian (Dialect). Jonny84 17:28, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
- Due to the expulsion of Germans after World War II, Lower Silesian is virtually extinct. I don't believe that enough editors will turn up. Additionally, just as Bajuvaric, Palatian and all the other dialects/regional languages, except for Low Saxon and Alsatian, maybe, Lower Silesian has with very few exceptions been a spoken vernacular only. There was almost no print production, except, maybe, for some pieces by Gerhard Hauptmann and other "Heimatdichtung". In fact, what I see at the test project looks to me very much like standard Hochdeutsch just with some phonetics changed. Anyone understanding Hochdeutsch should be easily able to read the test articles. I am not qualified to judge but my impression is, that this does not accurately reflect what Lower Silesian was really like. --Johannes Rohr 10:43, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
- Lower Silesian dialects (German Silesian dialects), is a German dialect/language spoken in Silesian. Today, the area is mainly in southwestem Poland, but as well as in northeastem Chech Republic and in eastem Germany. The Lower Silesian dialect is recognized by German minority in Poland has improved much since 1991. Most Germans in Poland live in Silesia (93% of all Germans in Poland): Opole Voivodeship - 104,399 i.e. approx. 69,9% all Germans in Poland, and approx. 10% of the population of this Voivodeship and Silesia Voivodeship - 31,882 i.e. approx. 20,8% of all Germans in Poland. --87.207.13.108 9:50, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
- How many people speak Lower Silesian? Anyone have any reliable statistics about it? Leinad 17:58, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- No. There are no good estimations available, but I think it won't be more than 500.000 (that's just a rough guess) --OosWesThoesBes 18:02, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Maybe some hundred thousands, but's difficult to say. Jonny84 19:04, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
- No. There are no good estimations available, but I think it won't be more than 500.000 (that's just a rough guess) --OosWesThoesBes 18:02, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Final translation
Thank you for you perseverance; this request is ready for approval and the wiki will soon be created. Please provide the following translations so that we can create the wiki:
| Variable | English | Schläsisch | Explanation |
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| $wgSitename | Wikipedia | Wikipeedia | the name of the website, which will appear in the title bar or when you use {{SITENAME}} on the wiki. |
| $wgMetaNamespace | Wikipedia | Wikipeedia | The name of the project namespace, which contains policies, processes, et cetera. |
| $wgMetaNamespaceTalk | Wikipedia_Talk | Wikipeedia_Dischkur | The name of talk namespace associated with the project namespace. |
87.207.13.108 9:50, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Localisation update
So far no localisation is available at Betawiki consequently no approval will be forthcoming unless the most used messages have all been localised. GerardM 19:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
So far localisation is available at Betawiki. 87.207.13.108 9:50, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
- Currently 5.20% of the most used MediaWiki messages have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 12:13, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
- Currently 98.73% of the most used MediaWiki messages have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 10:44, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
- There are six messages left to translate .., poke when done ... GerardM 15:12, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
