Friday, November 25, 2005

New Site?

Ok, so I realize that I am probably the last person to find out about this, but I am going to post it anyway....did anyone else know that there is now a Wikipedia in Kurdish?
Unfortuately, my Kurdish is none-existant (yes, I know...I am trying to learn..) so I am not able to tell if it is decent or not, but I still find it interesting and a definite step in the right direction.
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6 comments:

  1. Wladimir van Wilgenburg1:15 AM

    There is linux in Kurdish, windows in Kurdish.. etc

    So yep.. you are probably the last one finding out! Kurdish wikepedia exists for a year or two

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  2. Dara Sor5:28 AM

    Here we go:

    http://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%AEk%C3%AEpediya:D%C3%AEroka_W%C3%AEk%C3%AEpediya_Kurd%C3%AE

    It says:

    Destpêka Wîkîpêdiya Kurdî- 07.01.2004

    So that makes it almost two years...

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  3. Delal9:58 AM

    Ahh!! There is no name on there is there....I'll mention it to Kurdo. Yes the silly post was done by me, Delal. Your resident ditz. :)
    Thanks everyone for the extra comments!

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  4. Rosemary Welch3:40 AM

    Wow! I did not know this! That is fantastic. This is one way to keep your culture. Don't ever let anyone deprive you of this. You have a right to your language, art, music, dress, etc. This is so cool! ;)

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  5. Dara Sor9:23 AM

    I will start working with the Wikipedia - once I am done with my exams...

    I have Kurdish education - Standard Kurmancî - and the wikipedia is a good place for me to use that knowledge...

    By the way - Dîrok means "History"... As opposed to C,îrok, which means fiction/story...

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  6. Erdal Ronahi7:25 PM

    Hi,

    I am what you might call the "main administrator" of the Kurdish Wikipedia. But everyone of you can become admin by contributing regularly. And I am not the owner of the site!

    The only reason that there is so little Sorani there is that almost nobody contributes in Sorani. I have tried to do everything to make it more useable for Sorani writersm included a lot of right-to-left stuff, experimented with fonts and so on. But there doesn't seem to be anyone who wants to write in Sorani with the arabic alphabet.

    I don't know which words are understood and which are not. If there are common words in Kurmancî and Soranî, they certainly should be preferred.

    By the way, I have a little blog in Kurmanci: http://kurmanci.blogspot.com

    Please let's not discuss here, but in the Wikipedia.

    Silav,
    Erdal

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