Requests for new languages/Wikibooks Hausa
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This language has been verified as eligible. The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Once the criteria are met, the language committee can proceed with the approval. If you think the criteria are met, but the project is still waiting for approval, feel free to notify the committee and ask them to consider its approval. |
- The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
- The community needs to complete required MediaWiki interface translations in that language (about localization, translatewiki, check completion).
- The community needs to discuss and complete the settings table below:
| What | Value | Example / Explanation |
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| Language code | ha (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Hausa | Language name in English |
| Language name | Hausa | Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ... |
| Language Wikidata item | Q56475 - item has currently the following values:
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Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed. |
| Directionality | LTR | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Site URL | ha.wikibooks.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
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| Project name | Wikibooks Hausa | "Wikibooks" in your language |
| Project namespace | usually the same as the project name | |
| Project talk namespace | "Wikibooks talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace) | |
| Enable uploads | no | Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons. If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin").
Notes: (1) This setting can be changed afterwards. The setting can only be "yes" or "admin" at approval if the test creates an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) first. (2) Files on Commons can be used on all Wikis. (3) Uploading fair-use images is not allowed on Commons (more info). (4) Localisation to your language may be insufficient on Commons. |
| Optional settings | ||
| Project logo | File:... | This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation). |
| Default project timezone | Africa/Nigeria | "Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones) |
| Additional namespaces | For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk". | |
| Additional settings | Anything else that should be set | |
Proposal
editThe Hausa Language is a language with a long history of education and writing. Many scholars soon emerge immediately after the advent of Western education in Northern Nigeria in the early 19th century (1900-1914), although evidence has shown records of written knowledge even before the coming of Great Britain. Many scholars soon emerged and there have been hundreds if not thousands of books written in this language often utilized in many communities and educational facilities throughout Africa and the world at large. Moreover, there have being a major shift in how people approach knowledge due to the advent and advancement in technology. Many have since embraced online Encyclopedias and media as their source of knowledge and information. As such, paper books are becoming old-fashioned, and many have faced or are in danger of extinction. Furthermore, the language is well known for a large number of writers and scholars. This request therefore is to open a new language Wiki (Wikibooks Hausa) where tonnes of new Hausa literature/books can be transformed into an online encyclopedia where everyone can have access to them and can edit them freely. Feel free to support with comment in the section below. Uncle Bash007 (talk) 22:53, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
edit- Existing books go on Wikisource, not Wikibooks. See [1].--Prosfilaes (talk) 22:33, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
- In that case, you may also oppose this Wikibooks request as that test project focus more on Bible translations. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 08:28, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
- I understand, we will focus on writing about new textbooks in this Wiki. As there also be a seperate one for the old text as Hausa Wikisource. Uncle Bash007 (talk) 09:50, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
- I believe this to be an achievement and also a development for our society, I Support. Sanusi Gado (talk) 12:47, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
- Support. There is today a sizable Hausa-speaking community on Wikimedia projects (more or less 200 active users) with enough people likely to make contributions to such a project. --DonCamillo (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Oppose I'm an admin of Persian Wikibooks. Besides I have participate discussions in English Wikibooks. There are some disorders in choosing which content is suitable for the project, how long each page should be, who can and who should edit the content on professional books, etc. In some cases you see a book with a good contents outline but full of red links without any content. These makes Wikibooks a complicated project which is not good for languages which its speakers don't have a high online population. That's why I have requested for deletion of several Wikibooks projects by now. --Doostdar (talk) 19:13, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
