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submitted verification final decision

This proposal has been approved.
The Board of Trustees and language committee have deemed that there is sufficient grounds and community to create the new language project.

A committee member provided the following comment:

  • The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics). 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 ban (SIL, Glottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Balinese Language name in English
Language name Basa Bali 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 Q33070 - item has currently the following values:
 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 Grants:Project/PanLex/Balinese palm-leaf transcription platform on Wikisource, Grants:Project/PanLex/Integration of palm-leaf transcription platform with Wikisource, w:ban:Pabligbagan:Kaca Utama#Balinese Wikisource Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL ban.wikisource.org langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name WikiPustaka "Wikisource" in your language
Project namespace WikiPustaka usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace Pabligbagan_WikiPustaka "Wikisource 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 File:Wikisource-logo-ban.svg This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone Asia/Makassar "Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces [WS-specific namespaces see below] For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
Additional settings Wikisource wordmark: or link wordmark logo Anything else that should be set
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.

Proposal

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Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T244796
Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T245357
Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T245359
Tracked in Phabricator:
Task T245360

There's an ongoing discussion at s:mul:Wikisource:Scriptorium#Balinese Wikisource, with the help of implementing 3rd party tools?! @Nemo bis, Koavf, Lautgesetz, and Aldnonymous:^^ --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:02, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also notifying Joseagush.--AldnonymousBicara? 09:51, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the ping. I'll watch this page. Seems like this could be a critical mass situation and it's ready to graduate. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:41, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The licensing for font problem had been resolved, please check again if there are further complication/problem. --AldnonymousBicara? 09:17, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Need to change from OFL 1.1 to CC BY SA or GNU GPL (which is previously CC BY NC ND).--AldnonymousBicara? 09:19, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
From licensing perspective OFL is equivalent of CC-BY-SA-ND, still need some conversion or multi licensing.--AldnonymousBicara? 15:56, 12 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand the issue. The fonts (Pustaka Bali and Vimala) were already accepted last week in UniversalLanguageSelector, OFL is explicitly mentioned as one of the allowed licenses, and 27 other fonts were previously added to the repo with the license. If you think there is a problem with OFL, it goes well beyond this proposal and should be a larger discussion. As far as this proposal is concerned, it is consistent with current practice. --Lautgesetz (talk) 18:29, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Aldnonymous: -SA-ND is contradictory: if you can't make derivatives, there is no sharealike requirement. In any case, the license has been approved by the FSF, OSI and the Debian project, so an argument that it is non-free does not seem to be supported by the three organizations that typically set the line between free and non-free. It seems that you are most concerned by the prohibition on selling the font alone: the FSF also noted that condition, but found it to be "harmless". As Lautgesetz mentioned, this isn't the first font under this license to be used on Wikimedia projects, so concerns about the font license are best discussed elsewhere. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 19:00, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ah thanks for notifying me AntiCompositeNumber, the sa probably because I type it while I'm sleepy and just used to write CC-BY-SA while it should be CC BY ND. As for discussing this on the grants itself is fine. But the problem what I have is actually the Wikisource content that came from Palmleaf, those are not the fonts but an actual wikisource content. Anyway if OFL is okay, I have no problem with it.--AldnonymousBicara? 21:45, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Palmleaf.org user contributions are already CC-BY-SA. Not sure what the issue is? --Lautgesetz (talk) 21:49, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Then its should be okay. There's no problem left.--AldnonymousBicara? 22:09, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Something to keep in mind is that Balinese can be written in both Balinese and Latin scripts. The default script on ban.wikipedia.org is Latin, overridable with explicit script in the language code i.e. ban-bali. It seems best to follow the same default for Balinese Wikisource (and we can reuse l10n strings). UniversalLanguageSelector already has fonts for ban-bali. Most users won't have adequate fonts installed, so it would be best to enable the "Download fonts when needed" setting so webfonts are automatically used. They are not large. --Lautgesetz (talk) 06:19, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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@MarcoAurelio, Wagino 20100516, Wirjadisastra, Wandering ant, Siti Noviali, Luh Gede Krismayanti, Kadek Ayu Sulastri, Eka343, Anggabuana, Dcljr, Jon Harald Søby, Bayu Gita, Carma citrawati, and Chinamoonroll: Please bring support and your opinion regarding this proposal. Thanks in advance.

  • Support There are fonts, some initial seeding content, and I'm convinced that the specific needs of this language and its request for transliteration make it worth immediately graduating to its own domain (cf. the browser-breaking catastrophe that is incubator:Wp/ase). Some language editions have needs that are simply met better by skipping a multilingual-but-Latin-character-based wiki. I will say that I have a concern about the userbase and I am ignorant of what kind of corpus there is of written works but with over 1 million speakers and a long history of the language, I'm guessing it's sufficient to support this project. As someone who is not competent to do the technical work of installing a Balinese-to-Latin transcription tool or knowledgeable about the language so I can vet any of the work, I can't support those activities, but I can support basic maintenance and importing content, etc. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:14, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support I'm support this language. Because it is an language in Indonesia and you know Indonesia are the 2nd of the largest country by language in the world after Papua New Guinea and the 4th largest country by population and the biggest country from culture Semuel Tahun (talk)
  •   Strong support I'm, as balinese wikipedian admin, strongly support the idea to bring this manuscript to wikimedia movement and make this site as biggest repository for balinese palm-leaf manuscipts. Joseagush (talk) 03:23, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Strong support for makes it easier for people to access several sources such as lontar. Chinamoonroll (talk) 03:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Strong support I am balinese and interest in balinese paml-leaf manuscript and balinese script, strongly support this idea. We need repository for manuscript and the place that easy to access.Carma citrawati (talk)
  •   Strong support I am balinese and support this idea because this idea can be biggest repository for balinese manuscripts.Bayu Gita (talk)
  •   Strong support I'm balinese wikipedian strongly support this idea. This will be a great help to anyone interested in lontar manuscripts Eka343 (talk) 02:29, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Settings

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Hello dear editors! The language committee is now preparing for the approval of the ban.wikisource.org domain. In the meantime, please check and complete the settings table at the top of this page. If necessary, please discuss them in the community first. Some examples of missing things are the translations of the Wikisource-specific namespace names (Page, Index, etc.). Best regards --MF-W 09:22, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging active users @Carma citrawati, Chinamoonroll, Testingitro, Pertama yasa, Tudpartha, and Joseagush:, do we confirm that "WikiPustaka" is the Balinese translation of Wikisource, and should Wikisource_talk: namespace be translated as "Pabligbagan_WikiPustaka"? (as on ban.wikipedia all talk namespaces are translated as "Pabligbagan_(sth.)"). Note that Wikisources are having ProfreedPages extension enabled, which comes together with 4 namespaces: Page:, Page_talk:, Index:, Index_talk:, how do we translate them? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:46, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Liuxinyu970226:, This is the great news!! I will try to contact the community ASAP, we already had WA group. If you want to join, here the links. For Wikisource_talk: namespace I would prefer use same as the wikipedia, "Pabligbagan_WikiPustaka" as on ban.wiki. Four other namespace will be: Page: > Kaca:, Page_talk: > Pabligbagan_Kaca:, Index: > Indéks, Index_talk: Pabligbagan_Indéks: Thanks. Joseagush (talk) 09:59, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. There is also an "Author"/"Author talk" namespace to take care of. --MF-W 10:15, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @MF-Warburg:, Namespace for "Author/Author talk" you could use author: > "pangawi" and for Author talk: > "Pabligbagan_Pangawi". Thanks Carma citrawati (talk) 15:13, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Liuxinyu970226, MF-Warburg, Carma citrawati, Chinamoonroll, Anggabuana, Bayu Gita, Luh Gede Krismayanti, Kadek Ayu Sulastri, Siti Noviali, Chinamoonroll, and Eka343: All community member already agreed to use WikiPustaka as our wikisource name. To recorded all changes for namespaces:
  • Page: > Kaca:
  • Page_talk: > Pabligbagan_Kaca:
  • Index: > Indéks
  • Index_talk: > Pabligbagan_Indéks:
  • Author: > Pangawi:
  • Author_talk: > Pabligbagan_Pangawi:

Thanks. Joseagush (talk) 01:57, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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