Translations:Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2024/October/4/en
Mooré Wikipedia is live!
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Mooré is a language spoken by over 6 million people across Africa, yet remains largely underrepresented online. The Mooré language community have been taking steps for onboarding the language to Wikimedia projects, including translating the most used important messages on Translatewiki.net. However, a critical issue had been blocking the creation of the Mooré Language Wikipedia. The problem was that the Manual of Style (MOS) namespace on English Wikipedia conflicted with the interwiki prefix for the Mooré language, which also uses the code "MOS." This issue was resolved by elevating the pseudo-namespace MOS to a real namespace on 12 wikis, including English Wikipedia, thus unblocking the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, which went live in September [1] [2]! This achievement has paved the way for a vibrant language community and its passionate contributors, who are now focused on boosting their online presence.