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This page hosts proposals for closing down existing Wikimedia Foundation projects, and provides a forum for discussing the relevant arguments for or against these proposals.

Please list each proposal on a separate subpage, and make sure that you add in details to explain why you think the project is no longer useful to the Wikimedia Foundation, links to where the project is currently working at, and links to any other discussion pages that are likely to have occurred prior to its being listed on this page.

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Please add new requests in the END of the table below.

Language Project Request date For (confirmed[1]) Against (confirmed) Status


Lombard Wikipedia 27 November 2007 59 24 (25) Discussion in progress.
Wolof Wikiquote 6 July 2007  ? 4 Discussion in progress.
Tibetan Wikibooks 12 July 2007 7 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Xhosa Wiktionary 12 July 2007 6 1 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Gothic Wikibooks 14 July 2007 9 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Nehiyaw Wikiquote 16 July 2007 7 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Kernewek Wikiquote 16 July 2007 7 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Belorussian Wikiquote 16 July 2007 3 8 Discussion finished, result is KEEP.
Lingala Wikibooks 17 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Quechua Wikibooks 17 July 2007 4 5 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Bashkir Wikibooks 17 July 2007 4 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Tatar Wikiquote 18 July 2007 4 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Nahuatl Wikibooks 18 July 2007 3 9 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Rumantsch Wikibooks 18 July 2007 4 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Aymar Wikibooks 18 July 2007 4 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Occitan Wikibooks 18 July 2007 3 7 Discussion finished, result is KEEP.
Chamorro Wikipedia 18 July 2007 7 9 Discussion finished, result is KEEP.
Bambara Wikiquote 18 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Volapuk Wikiquote 18 July 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Oyghurque Wikiquote 18 July 2007 3 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Turkmen Wikiquote 19 July 2007 4 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Assamese Wiktionary 20 July 2007 4 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Akan Wiktionary 20 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Inuktitut Wiktionary 20 July 2007 5 1 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Kirundi Wiktionary 20 July 2007 4 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Tongan Wiktionary 20 July 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Bambara Wiktionary 20 July 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Guarani Wikibooks 23 July 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Afar Wikibooks 23 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Abkhaz Wiktionary 23 July 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Bihari Wiktionary 23 July 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Bislama Wiktionary 23 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Avar Wiktionary 23 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Bislama Wikibooks 26 July 2007 4 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Bambara Wikibooks 26 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Afar Wiktionary 26 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Pali Bhasa Wiktionary 31 July 2007 2 2 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Sami Wikibooks 31 July 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Twi Wiktionary 31 July 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Nehiyaw Wiktionary 1 August 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Lak Wikipedia 1 August 2007 7 10 Discussion finished, result is KEEP.
Afar Wikipedia 3 August 2007 8 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Haitian Creole Wikisource 5 August 2007 9 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Kashmiri Wikiquote 6 August 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Nauruan Wikiquote 6 August 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Telegu Wikiquote 6 August 2007 1 2 Discussion in progress.
Bashkir Wiktionary 7 August 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Chamorro Wikibooks 7 August 2007 8 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Chamorro Wiktionary 7 August 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Lingala Wikibooks 8 August 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Walon Wikibooks 8 August 2007 4 0 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Xhosa Wikibooks 8 August 2007 5 0 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Yoruba Wikibooks 8 August 2007 5 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Burmese Wiktionary 16 August 2007 4 0 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Sinhala Wiktionary 16 August 2007 2 0 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Alemannic Wikiquote 16 August 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Zhuang Wikibooks 18 August 2007 4 1 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Latvian Wikibooks 20 August 2007 2 2 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Letzebuergesch Wikibooks 20 August 2007 3 0 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Khmer Wikibooks 20 August 2007 3 0 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Burmese Wikibooks 20 August 2007 4 0 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Khmer Wiktionary 20 August 2007 3 2 No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed.
Marshallese Wikipedia 21 August 2007 8 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Marshallese Wiktionary 21 August 2007 6 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Oromoo Wiktionary 21 August 2007 7 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Volapük Wikipedia 21 September 2007 40 73 Discussion finished, result is KEEP.
Aromanian Wiktionary 24 September 2007 1 0 Discussion in progress.
zh-min-nan Wikibooks 29 September 2007 3 1 Discussion in progress.
Pashto Wikibooks 17 October 2007 1 0 Discussion in progress.
Mongolian Wikibooks 26 October 2007 5 0 Discussion in progress.
Dzongkha Wikipedia 27 October 2007 5 7 Discussion in progress.
Kannada Wikibooks 28 October 2007 7 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Swahili Wikibooks 10 December 2007 2 0 Discussion in progress.
Ndonga Wikipedia 12 December 2007 0 4 Discussion in progress.
Corsu Wiktionary 18 January 2008 2 8 Discussion finished, result is KEEP.
Turkmen Wiktionary 30 January 2008 0 0 Discussion in progress.
Volapük Wikipedia 25 December 2007 39 67 Discussion in progress.
Polish Wikipedia 28 December 2007 Proposal speedily closed as vandalism, result is KEEP.
Cheyenne Wikipedia 12 February 2008 0 0 Discussion in progress.
Laos Wiktionary 21 February 2008 4 2 Discussion finished, result is KEEP.
Klingon Wiktionary 1 March 2008 7 0 Discussion finished, result is CLOSE.
Tatar Wikipedia 17 March 2008 0 0 Discussion in progress.
Latina Wikipedia 20 March 2008 0 0 Discussion in progress.
Tokipona Wikipedia 27 March 2008 0 0 Discussion in progress.
Xhosa Wikipedia 19 April 2008 0 0 Discussion in progress.
  1. Votes confirmation is a measure developed by Irpen. He proposed that only votes from people who already had registered account in any of the Wikimedia projects by the time when the discussion started are taken into consideration. To verify or "confirm" the vote, according to his proposition each user should write his Meta account username on his talkpage in local project, take the diff link of this edit and place it on his userpage here in Meta. After that all votes by this user in discussions which started after this user's registration in local project are considered "confirmed".

    If votes confirmation was not used for some discussion all non-anonymous votes are considered confirmed. Note that there is no need to write two values ("total (confirmed)") into this table in such a case.
Closed proposals are listed on Proposals for closing projects/Archive.
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