Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Aghem

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Request for a new language edition: Wikipedia Aghem

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, will verify the test project content with a reliable neutral source, such as a professor or expert and notify the Board of Trustees for a possible veto. 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. A committee member provided the following comment: Eligible language. You are encouraged to contribute on incubator:Wp/agq. --Millosh (talk) 14:12, 21 January 2017 (UTC)

• 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	agq (SIL, Ethnologue)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Aghem	Language name in English
Language name	Aghem	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	Q34737 - item has currently the following values: en label = Aghem native label (P1705) = Aghem instance/subclass (P31/P279) = language, modern language / Wikimedia language code (P424) = agq writing system (P282) = number of speakers (P1098) =	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.
Community	You can optionally list your user name if you are an active contributor to the test wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language.
Links		Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	agq.wikipedia.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	Wikikpedìa	"Wikipedia" in your language
Project namespace	Wikikpedìa	usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace	Discussion Wikikpedìa	"Wikipedia 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	File:Wikipedia svg logo-agq.svg	135x135 PNG derivative from a decent SVG image (instructions)
Default project timezone	CET (UTC+1)	"Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces		For example for a Wikisource which would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk"
Additional settings		Anything else that should be set
submit phabricator task (includes everything automatically, except additional namespaces/settings)

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Proposal

Aghem is spoken by over 40.000 persons according to the 2005 national census. Aghem is taught in schools and the graduates who are in Yaounde, Douala, Buea, Bamenda, Britain, Germany, Sweden, USA, China etc request for electronic didactic tools so that they should not relapse into illiteracy as well as teach their children written Aghem. Researchers must not only come to Aghem land before getting information about Aghem, thus, they can use this site for online information.

Discussion

1. Oppose While the goals of this project are useful, they fall outside of the purpose of Wikipedia, to construct an encyclopedia. Aghem-language websites could perhaps instead be created outside of the WMF. The number of native speakers is also quite low, in the tens of thousands. Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 14:07, 21 October 2019 (UTC)