Language committee/Reports/2012-01

This is the language committee report for January 2012 (and also December 2011).

MF-Warburg wrote a relevant report for the year 2011, see incubator:Incubator:News/2011 report.

The Wikipedia in Veps (a Uralic language spoken by about 6,000 people) has been created.
The Wiktionary in Punjabi (in Shahmukhi script) has been created.
The Wikisource in Marathi has been created. There is a bit of content on the OldWikisource (that still needs to be transferred). However, the Maharashtra Government has promised to provide free content for the Marathi Wikisource.
The Wikipedia in Lezgian (a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 784,000 people) is approved by the committee.

Some discussion about the Belarusian Wikisource request. It is very active, but the issue is that it be in both the official and Taraskevica orthography.
There is a request for a Wikiquote in Oriya/Odia, however there is concern about the language/orthography used on Oriya projects.