Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Assamese

submitted	verification	final decision

	This language has been verified as eligible. The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Once the criteria are met, the language committee can proceed with the approval. If you think the criteria are met, but the project is still waiting for approval, feel free to notify the committee and ask them to consider its approval. A committee member provided the following comment: Project is eligible. Please contribute to the test at incubator:Wt/as. For LangCom: StevenJ81 (talk) 22:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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	as (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Assamese	Language name in English
Language name	অসমীয়া	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	Q29401 - item has currently the following values: English label: Assamese native label (P1705): অসমীয়া ভাষা, অসমীয়া instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): natural language, modern language / Bengali–Assamese Wikimedia language code (P424): as writing system (P282): Assamese alphabet number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 15,300,000	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		Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	as.wiktionary.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	ৱিকিঅভিধান	"Wiktionary" in your language
Project namespace	Wiktionary	usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace	Assamese Wiktionary Discussion	"Wiktionary 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.
Optional settings
Project logo	Wiktionary svg logo-as.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
submit Phabricator task. It will include everything automatically, except additional namespaces/settings. After creating the task, add a link to the comment.

Proposal edit

There was an Assamese Wiktionary opened earlier, however was closed and moved to incubator due to inactivity (http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/as).

However, now we want to revive this project. This is a request to please re open the project.

Assamese language is spoken in Assam (India), West Bengal (India), Arunachal (India), they use Arunachali dialect of Assamese, Nagaland(India), they use Nagamese dialect of Assamese, Bangladesh and various places of the Assamese communities (large number seen in Bangalore(India), Pune(India), the United States etc.) in various parts of world.
Assamese is the official language in Assam
Approximately 16,709,000 people in Assam speak Assamese,
Dialects: Jharwa (Pidgin), Mayang, Standard Assamese, Western Assamese (Kamrupi), Nagamese and Arunachali
Assamese is often used in all the states various ways, like words borrowed from it or as a connecting language. Assamese has been working as a very important connecting language in North- East India since medieval times.
Assamese alphabet maps one to one to the Devanagari alphabets
Assamese alphabet differs only three letters from Bengali, and so it isn't hard to design the Assamese Wiktionary, as Bengali Wiktionary ( https://bn.wiktionary.org/ ) is already there.
The Assamese Wikipedia has approx 2990 articles in it and growing. It is a successful project.

There are very few up-to-date paper dictionaries in Assamese.
Most of the people, especially poor students don't get access to a good dictionary, but can access it via mobile, which are available even in the far corners of the state.
Wiktionary can help poor Assamese students, who can't buy the expensive dictionaries (most of the good printed Assamese dictionaries are fat and too costly). Students can access the internet at a rate of less than 20 rupees per hour.
Wikimedia specific: Most of the technical terms are not available in Assamese and there is a dire need to have an online dictionary
Assamese doesn't have a on-line spell checker,