Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Kwasio
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This proposal has been rejected. While this request has technically been rejected, in reality this is a request that has been sitting open or on hold for a long time with little evidence of a community coming together to build a project. If a community comes together in the future and makes a new request, LangCom would consider that new request without prejudice. A committee member provided the following comment: LangCom would reconsider if a community starts working on the test. StevenJ81 (talk) 15:50, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
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- 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 | nmg (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Kwasio | Language name in English |
| Language name | kwasio | 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 | Q34098 - 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 | no indication | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Site URL | nmg.wikipedia.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
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| Project name | Wikipedia | "Wikipedia" in your language |
| Project namespace | usually the same as the project name | |
| Project talk namespace | "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. |
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| Project logo | File:Wikipedia svg logo-fr.svg | This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation). |
| 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, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk". | |
| Additional settings | Anything else that should be set | |
- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
Replace this line with your opening argument in favour of the new project.
Arguments in favour edit
- Nous pensons vivement que le fait d'insérer la langue kwasio dans l'encyclopédie Wikipedia serait salutaire non seulement pour la langue mais également pour les peuples qui la parle. En effet, cette langue regorge d'un nombre considérable de locuteurs aussi bien natifs qu'étrangers. Pareillement, ladite langue est une langue transfrontalière que l'on retrouve non seulement au Cameroun mais aussi au Gabon, en Guinée Equatoriale et en République Centraficaine. L'insérer donc stipule que l'encyclopédie sera une plateforme louable et propiced'expression et de partage de tous les locuteurs de cette dernière.
Arguments against edit
- Oppose, only 18.000 speakers in Africa, so the number of native speakers, which have their own computer with Internet, is extremely low. If we open this Wikipedia, it will be empty all the time. --LexArt 08:14, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
Other discussion edit
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.