Proposals for closing projects
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Apart from the common practices below, there is no official policy on closing projects
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 discussions prior to its being listed on this page. Do not forget to warn the project itself and/or its language community in Wikimedia in the best possible way and add a link to it in the proposal. Proposals with no fair warnings to the projects will be ignored. These pages are for discussion. Providing reasons after your votes is encouraged and appreciated. If this is not the first time a project has been nominated for closure, please compare prior discussions to the current situation and circumstances. Experience shows that repeating a failed proposal wouldn't work. See also:
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Warning: If you propose a project for closure, please then add a local announcement as well, or the request will be ignored. Thank you. |
Please add new requests in the END of the table below.
| Language | Project | Request date | For (confirmed[1]) | Against (confirmed) | Status
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| Telegu | Wikiquote | 6 August 2007 | 4 | 8 | No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed. |
| Walon | Wikibooks | 8 August 2007 | 6 | 1 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Xhosa | Wikibooks | 8 August 2007 | 8 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Burmese | Wiktionary | 16 August 2007 | 4 | 3 | 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. |
| Zhuang | Wikibooks | 18 August 2007 | 11 | 4 | Discussion in progress. |
| Latvian | Wikibooks | 20 August 2007 | 3 | 5 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Lëtzebuergesch | Wikibooks | 20 August 2007 | 5 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Khmer | Wikibooks | 20 August 2007 | 3 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Burmese | Wikibooks | 20 August 2007 | 4 | 0 | No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed. |
| Khmer | Wiktionary | 20 August 2007 | 3 | 5 | Discussion in progress. |
| Oromoo | Wiktionary | 21 August 2007 | 3 | 4 | Discussion in progress. |
| zh-min-nan | Wikibooks | 29 September 2007 | 7 | 2 | Discussion in progress. |
| Mongolian | Wikibooks | 26 October 2007 | 8 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Dzongkha | Wikipedia | 27 October 2007 | 8 | 18 | Discussion in progress. |
| Kannada | Wikibooks | 28 October 2007 | 7 | 0 | No discussion activity. This proposal is to be closed. |
| Swahili | Wikibooks | 10 December 2007 | 2 | 0 | Discussion in progress. |
| Ndonga | Wikipedia | 12 December 2007 | 12 | 8 | Discussion in progress. |
| Turkmen | Wiktionary | 30 January 2008 | 0 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Cheyenne | Wikipedia | 12 February 2008 | 7 | 6 | Discussion in progress. |
| Tatar | Wikipedia | 17 March 2008 | 1 | 15 | Discussion in progress. |
| Latina | Wikipedia | 20 March 2008 | 0 | 0 | Discussion in progress. |
| Tokipona | Wikipedia | 27 March 2008 | 2 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is DELETE. |
| Xhosa | Wikipedia | 19 April 2008 | 4 | 20 | Discussion in progress. |
| Beta | Wikiversity | 27 May 2008 | 14 | 31 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Walon | Wiktionary | 15 June 2008 | 0 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Toki Pona | Wikipedia | 8 September 2008 | 4 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is DELETE. |
| Chechen (2) | Wikipedia | 11 September 2008 | 0 | 0 | Discussion in progress. |
| Ripuarian | Wikipedia | 25 September 2008 | 0 | 0 | Discussion in progress. |
| Simple English (2) | Wikipedia | 22 October 2008 | 43 | 97 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Kurdish | Wikipedia | 20 November 2008 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. | ||
| Simple English (2) | Wiktionary | 27 November 2008 | 17 | 49 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Simple English (2) | Wikibooks | 1 January 2009 | 1 | 5 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Simple English (2) | Wikiquote | 12 January 2009 | Proposal speedily closed as vandalism, result is KEEP. | ||
| Toki Pona (deletion) | Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote |
23 February 2009 | 9 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is DELETE. |
| Quality (closure) | Wikimedia | 3 April 2009 | 13 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Tamil | Wikinews | 10 April 2009 | 8 | 24 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Kazakh | Wikiquote | 11 April 2009 | 7 | 2 | Discussion in progress. |
| Tamil | Wikiquote | 11 April 2009 | 5 | 14 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Cherokee | Wikipedia | 18 April 2009 | 3 | 19 | Discussion in progress. |
| Basa Sunda | Wikibooks | 21 April 2009 | 9 | 0 | Discussion finished, result is KEEP. |
| Simple | Wikibooks | 1 July 2009 | 0 | 0 | Discussion in progress. |
| Dutch | Wikinews | 1 July 2009 | 40 | 10 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Welsh | Wikiquote | 3 July 2009 | 7 | 6 | Discussion in progress. |
| Divehi | Wiktionary | 17 July 2009 | 1 | 8 | Discussion in progress. |
| Simple English (3) | Wikiquote | 23 October 2009 | 45 | 9 | Discussion finished, result is CLOSE. |
| Sango (2) | Wikipedia | 23 October 2009 | 6 | 1 | Discussion in progress. |
- ↑ 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.
