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Nheengatu Wiktionary

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Request for a new language edition: Wiktionary Nheengatu

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 and notify the Board of Trustees for a possible veto. 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.

• 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	yrl (SIL, Ethnologue)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Nheengatu	Language name in English
Language name	nheengatu	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	Q34333 - item has currently the following values: en label = Nheengatu native label (P1705) = ñe'engatú instance/subclass (P31/P279) = language, modern language / Língua Geral Wikimedia language code (P424) = yrl writing system (P282) = Latin script number of speakers (P1098) = 8,000	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.
Community	You can optionally list your user name if you are an active contributor to the test wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language.
Links	"Nheengatu" @ Portuguese Wikipedia	Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	yrl.wiktionary.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name		"Wiktionary" in your language
Project namespace		usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace		"Wiktionary 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:...	135x135 PNG derivative from a decent SVG image (instructions)
Default project timezone	Continent/City	"Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces		For example for a Wikisource which would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk"
Additional settings		Anything else that should be set
submit phabricator task (includes everything automatically, except additional namespaces/settings)

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Proposal

Nheengatu has recently been aproved as eligible for Wikipedia [1].

Discussion

Arguments in favour

• A Nheengatu Wiktionary will be very useful for people working on Nheengatu Wikipedia.
• It has much more initial potential than the very Nheengatu Wikipedia. It's much easier, say, for non-natives to give translations for a word than to write an encyclopedic article on some subject in Nheengatu.
• Let's do it.Qrc2006 18:55, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Other discussion

As this is not the first request for a project for this language, it needs to do the full localisation of MediaWiki ... GerardM 08:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Localisation update

• Currently 0% of the MediaWiki messages and 00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:14, 13 November 2008 (UTC)