Requests for new languages/Wikinews Lithuanian

submitted	verification	final decision

	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

Proposal
Language code	lt (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Lithuanian	Language name in English
Language name	lietuvių	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	Q9083 - item has currently the following values: English label: Lithuanian native label (P1705): Lietuvių kalba, Lietuviškai instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): language, modern language / East Baltic Wikimedia language code (P424): lt writing system (P282): Latin script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 4,000,000	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)?
Links		Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	lt.wikinews.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	Wikinews	"Wikinews" in your language
Project namespace		usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace		"Wikinews talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads	yes	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		This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone		"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
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.

Number of speakers:4-5 million (WorldWide)
Location speaked:Lithuania (offical), Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ireland, Uruguay, USA, Spain and France.

Support Support: Matasg 14:29, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Votes will be ignored according to the policy, please provide arguments. --OosWesThoesBes 16:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Total Support. It's good to created news portal in Lithuanian language, where you can write a news :) --Pdxx _aptarimas 18:53, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support 'OK --Vpovilaitis ^apt. 06:57, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Votes will be ignored according to the policy, please provide arguments. --OosWesThoesBes 16:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Weak Support You will have to make sure there are enough people to keep it running (Red4tribe 16:03, 23 April 2008 (UTC))[reply]
Support Absolutely Support! --ArttuS 12:50, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Votes will be ignored according to the policy, please provide arguments. --OosWesThoesBes 16:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Strong support —luontopoika ₧ 13:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Votes will be ignored according to the policy, please provide arguments. --OosWesThoesBes 16:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Total Support!--Pickles9375 15:47, 3 October 2008 (UTC)pickles9375[reply]
Votes will be ignored according to the policy, please provide arguments. --OosWesThoesBes 16:49, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 04:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Reality006 23:11, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Guys, you have conditional approval. So get to work on Incubator and show that you are worth it. GerardM 07:34, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Localisation update

Currently 45.49% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.92% of the messages used by the extensions used by the WMF have been localised. Both need to be 100% before final approval can be given. Thanks, GerardM 20:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Currently 96.38% of the MediaWiki messages and 42.12% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 07:04, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Currently 95.94% of the MediaWiki messages and 42.49% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 10:34, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Currently 91.19% of the MediaWiki messages and 25.97% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 11:12, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Currently 98.70% of the MediaWiki messages and 23.26% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 22:16, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]