Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Solomon Pijin
Solomon Pijin Wikipedia edit
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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 | pis (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Pijin | Language name in English |
| Language name | pijin blo'Solomon | 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 | Q36699 - 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)? |
| Links | Solomon Islands Pijin audio recordings, Iumi Lanem Pijin. A Basic Course in Solomon Islands Pidgin, | Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents. |
| Site URL | pis.wikipedia.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
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| Project name | "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 | 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").
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| 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
Solomon Islands Pijin is the lingua franca of the Solomon Islands, which consists of Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian peoples. The country is the most ethnically diverse in the Pacific with a multitude of tribal languages across its many islands which themselves have contributed to the pijin vocabulary.
Discussion edit
Arguments in favour edit
Pijin is the language of day to day business across the Solomon Islands. Despite the official language of the Solomons being English, Pijin is used exclusively for general trade and business by the average person, with standard English rarely being heard. The language is also used more frequently than English in Courts of Law and is increasingly heard in Parliament despite it not having been formally standardised as yet. Orthography is phonetic and uses the English latin script with umlauts used for tribal words that are being gradually absorbed into pijin. The language is sufficiently distinct from Tok Pisin (PNG) and Bislama (Vanuatu) to warrant its own Wikipedia so as to encourage the online development of this colourful and expressive language which unites the different ethnic groups across the Solomons.
- Support: Native speakers of Solomons Pijin have the competency and willingness to contribute to this project in the long-term. Hence the Solomons Pijin language deserves to be given the opportunity and priviledge to have its own language edition of Wikipedia along with the existing creole languages such as Tok Pisin, Bislama and so on. --Jose77 04:51, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
- Support Chabi 06:46, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- Pijin is the language of day to day business across the Solomon Islands. Despite the official language of the Solomons being English, Pijin is used exclusively for general trade and business by the average person, with standard English rarely being heard. The language is also used more frequently than English in Courts of Law and is increasingly heard in Parliament despite it not having been formally standardised as yet. Orthography is phonetic and uses the English latin script with umlauts used for tribal words that are being gradually absorbed into pijin. The language is sufficiently distinct from Tok Pisin (PNG) and Bislama (Vanuatu) to warrant its own Wikipedia so as to encourage the online development of this colourful and expressive language which unites the different ethnic groups across the Solomons. --Pavlvs-rex 11:27, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
Arguments against edit
Other discussion edit
- I have now created the Wikidata item Solomon Islands Pidgin English. I have used the spelling "Solomon Islands Pidgin English" as occuring on the Curriculum Vitae of Emeritus Professor Clive Moore, Vincent Mia Edie Verheyen (talk) 11:44, 19 July 2018 (UTC).