- 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
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Value
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Example / Explanation
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Proposal
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Language code
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en-ZA (SIL, Glottolog)
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A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
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Language name |
South African English |
Language name in English
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Language name |
English |
Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ...
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Language Wikidata item |
Q1156228 - 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.
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Directionality |
LTR |
Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
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Links |
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Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
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Site URL |
en-za.wikipedia.org |
langcode.wikiproject.org
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Settings
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Project name
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Wikipedia
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"Wikipedia" in your language
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Project namespace |
South African English Wikipedia |
usually the same as the project name
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Project talk namespace |
Wikipedia talk |
"Wikipedia talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
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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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Optional settings
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Project logo |
File:Wikipedia rainbow logo.png |
This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
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Default project timezone |
South African time zone |
"Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
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Additional namespaces
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Talk page
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For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
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Additional settings
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sandbox
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Anything else that should be set
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submit Phabricator task. It will include everything automatically, except additional namespaces/settings. After creating the task, add a link to the comment.
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The people of south Africa, matriculants & ordinary people are craving for free knowledge. They crave for an encyclopidia in the south African English. Not everyone is able to read and/or write in simple or complex English.
Harley Quinn on duty (talk) 11:42, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]