Last modified: 2007-02-17 23:51:54 UTC
The Aramaic Wikipedia interwiki link is incorrectly displaying the localized name for Aramaic (it displays "ܕܥܒܪܸܝܛ" (it's just jibberish) in the "in other languages" section rather than "ܣܘܪܬ" (Suret) as displayed as the local language name). This may be the case for other Wikis, too. Furthermore there are two more problems with the localization: 1) "ܣܘܪܬ" (Suret) is technically incorrect and should be "ܐܪܡܝܐ" (Aramaya) in all instances as Suret is far too narrow to define the language that the wiki is written in; which brings me to: 2) The Wiki should be the "Neo-Aramaic Wikipedia" rather than specifically the "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Wikipedia" anymore. The Administrator team has been trying to normalize the language so that most Neo-Aramaic speakers (regardless of whether or not they speak Assyrian, Chaldean, Turoyo, or Western dialects) would be able to understand it with relative ease. As such, the Wikipedia's scope has broadened a bit. Thanks, -Steve Caruso Sysop, Aramaic Wikipedia
Just to comment for verification since changing names of languages can be dangerous if one doesn't know the language: the current link, "ܕܥܒܪܸܝܛ", "d'vrit", literally saying "in Hebrew" (a different language) spelled incorrectly, has been in need of change since the creation of the wiki some time ago. As Steve pointed out, the correct name should be "ܐܪܡܝܐ", as it appears on http://wikipedia.org. Also worth mentioning, the name appears as "ܣܘܪܬ" (a specific dialect of the modern language) on the List of Wikipedias on WikiMedia. To put things in perspective, it's akin to having "English" on wikipedia.org, "American English" as the name on List of Wikipedias, and "Englow-Saksun" as the interwiki link. --334 Sysop, Aramaic Wikipedia
Changed the name for interwikis/language selection in r19958, should be up within a few days. What do you mean when you say ܣܘܪܬ is the "local language name"?
The "Language (local)" field found on the Meta list http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias . Also, was the "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic" changed to "Neo-Aramaic" (i.e. the source for the column in the same list labeled "Language")? I didn't see any other changes but the Aramaic name in the revision you linked to (which is correct now). I also realized that the wikilink that is found in in the same Meta list should also now point to w:Neo-Aramaic rather than w:Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic (or is that something that the various templates that I have seen do automatically via the hard-coded English name?). -Steve Caruso Sysop, Aramaic Wikipedia
The List of Wikipedias is maintained by Mutante, as far as I can tell, certainly not the developers or sysadmins. Probably the place to ask for a change is at: http://s23.org/wiki/User:Mutante If it turns out this is actually in the site configuration somewhere, please open a new bug (separate reports for separate issues = better for tracking, even if they're related).
