Activate new language: Efik (efi)
Hello. The Efik Wikipedia project has been initiated in Incubator. We would like to start translating the important messages into Efik language here. The language uses Latin script and write LTR. Please help activate it. Thanks.
I fixed the Portal:Efi to properly create it (but it's still marked disabled; only a site admin can do that, not me).
You can see If the language is really enabled by looking at the bottom of this page: Special:ActiveLanguages/efi. A site admin will inform you by replying in this thread if he accepts your request.
I see you've registered this language in your user page, but with little knowledge of it, and the initial project in Incubator is still almost empty without more "participants" than apparently you.
Do you know other people that will really translate to that language with enough knowledge? If so inform them so they can register for an account on this wiki and cooperate.
I suggest you experiment with the early incubator wiki (which is where you'll testbed the language itself, to have a good idea of which kind of linguistic support you need; you're not required to design a full portal with many templates, just see how some common pages like documentation/help could be translated and supported, and request assistance if needed from developers, e.g. for input methods, date and number formats, plural rules, transliteration facilities if needed; as well it can be used to simulate the interface before it is actually translated: those activities don't fit well in translatewiki.net).
And also experiment with the translation interface (in some other language that you know), either here on this wiki, or in wikis that also have translatable pages (e.g. on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki, or Wikimedia Commons, or on MetaWiki wiki: there are tons of documentation/help pages to translate: these translatable pages on these other wikis uses the same technology as here, even if this site is for translating the MediaWiki UI (for its next versions before deployment), and a few other projects for its extensions, or custom softwares: here the translations you make are not immediately "live", they are reviewed and imported later for each external project; this is different from "translatable pages" hosted and published directly on each site by itself.
Thank you for your help. I have corrected my language level to intermediate cos I could speak the language but not as native speaker. I have another native speaker and we would work together on this. He is already registered in Wikimedia incubator as (User:Udoette1). I also plan to get other native speakers on board. I am a native speaker of gungbe(guw) and Nigerian pidgin(pcm) and one of the main contributors to these projects in incubator and translatewiki(I initiated both). I would design the main page of efik Wikipedia whenever I have much time on my side. I trust we could count on you when we have issues here as well. Thanks.