Wikinews/New language pre-launch

These are recommended, but not mandatory procedures for preparations to follow before creating a new language edition of an existing Wikimedia project. The instructions are separated by project.

Wikinews edit

Translate or write local language equivalents of the following pages:

You may want to create:

Please create these documents on the Wikimedia incubator and then put a note on Wikinews/Start a new edition when it is done. As a naming convention, please use [[xy.wikinews Main Page]] or [[Template:xy.wikinews NPOV]], where xy is your language code. Templates and links can be broken while the pages are constructed here on Meta.

Once you are finished, it is recommended that you post a request for creation of the language to foundation-l, pointing out that all formal and informal requirements have been met.

You can use this page to coordinate translating relevant pages. See /Archive for examples.

Bahasa Indonesia edit

For Wikinews Bahasa Indonesia (id.wikinews.org):

Also:

Bosnian edit

Already launched. Visit http://bs.wikinews.org. Please, leave this notice for some days in order to advise Bosnian users.


Croatian edit

You may want to create:

  • n:Wikinews:Original reporting for a basic policy on original reporting
  • n:Wikinews:Credentials and related pages for accrediting Wikinews reporters

Esperanto edit

Open English edit

You may want to create:

Persian edit


sd: Sindhi edit

Türkçe edit

Anglo-Saxon edit

Finnish edit

    • All required pages have been translated.


Afrikaans edit

For the discussion of the Afrikaans Wikinews, please visit this page. Thank you.

You may want to create:

    • All required and recommended pages have been translated.

Korean edit

Tamil edit

This project has now been launched. Please see http://ta.wikinews.org/.

You may want to create:

Hungarian edit

You may want to create:

Galician (Galego) edit


You may want to create:

Ελληνικά (Greek) edit

Pages that are also to be created:

Hindi edit

Also:

Latin edit