Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Maguindanaon
| submitted | verification | final decision |
| Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Votes will be ignored when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them (see the Language proposal policy).
The language committee needs to verify the language is eligible to be approved. |
- 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 | mdh (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Maguindanaon | Language name in English |
| Language name | Basa Magindanawn باس مڬندنون | 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 | Q33717 - 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 for mdh-Latn; RTL for mdh-Arab | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Site URL | mdh.wikipedia.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
| Settings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project name | Wikipidia | "Wikipedia" in your language |
| Project namespace | Wikipidia | usually the same as the project name |
| Project talk namespace | "Wikipedia 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 | This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation). | |
| Default project timezone | Asia/Manila | "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 edit
- Speakers: 2,021,099 (2020)
- Location(s) spoken: Maguindanao del Norte, Maguindanao del Sur as the main language; Sultan Kudarat, North Cotabato, South Cotabato, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga Sibugay, Davao del Sur and Davao del Norte as the minority language. Generally spoken anywhere Maguindanaons reside. It was the former lingua franca of Sultanate of Maguindanao.
Discussion edit
Arguments in favour edit
Strong support I support that the wikipedia community grant the privilege to Maguindanaon speakers to be able to express their language identity in the wikipedia. Bangsa Manusia- Strong support I believe that if Wikipedia is the one way to preserve the Language, I am supported --
ShiminUfesoj 🌏 (🦜) 08:24, 30 November 2023 (UTC) - Strong support With over 2 million speakers, Maguindanao is one of the 10 most spoken languages of the Philippines so there is a large base of potential editors and readers of content written in Maguindanao. --Christopher Sundita (talk) 17:22, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- Support not sure why this doesn’t have a Wikipedia when we have languages nobody speaks like Old English and Lingua Franca Nova Dronebogus (talk) 16:15, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
