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Dutch Wikinews[edit]

A second request for starting Dutch Wikinews.

  1. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
    12 April 2010 05:14

    Eligible: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Dutch

  2. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
    12 April 2010 05:17

    Hm. It already exists :)

  3. Gerard Meijssen (GerardM)
    23 July 2009 05:35

    <this user has not agreed to public archival.>

  4. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
    12 April 2010 17:35

    There was a new request for nl.wn. I've deleted it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Dutch

Brahui and Hawrami[edit]

  1. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
    12 April 2010 05:37

    I don't see any problem for making request for Brahui Wikipedia [1] eligible. It is a Dravidian language spoken in Pakistan (Afghanistan and Iran) [2][3].

    We have request for Hawrami Wikipedia [4]. It is one of Gorani dialects [5][6][7]. Request is invalid as it uses the code "hac", which is a generic Gorani code. According to Ethnologue, there are less than 50.000 of speakers in Iran and Iraq. It would be good to have one project for all dialects. However, it is possible that distance between Gorani dialects is big enough to have separate projects. (According to Ethnologue, literary tradition is very old.)

Erzya Wiktionary[edit]

  1. Milos Rancic (Millosh)
    29 April 2010 10:37

    I promoted Erzya Wiktionary request to eligible. There is Erzya Wikipedia, it is a ~500k speakers Finno-Ugric language. No issue.