Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Assamese
 | Note: This is a request to re-open Assamese Wiktionary which is closed years ago. |
| submitted | verification | final decision |
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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. 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.A committee member provided the following comment: Project is eligible. Please contribute to the test at incubator:Wt/as. For LangCom: StevenJ81 (talk) 22:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
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- 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 |
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| Language code | as (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Assamese | Language name in English |
| Language name | অসমীয়া | 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 | Q29401 - item has currently the following values:
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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. |
| Directionality | LTR | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Site URL | as.wiktionary.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
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| Project name | ৱিকিঅভিধান | "Wiktionary" in your language |
| Project namespace | Wiktionary | usually the same as the project name |
| Project talk namespace | Assamese Wiktionary Discussion | "Wiktionary talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace) |
| Enable uploads | yes | 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 | Wiktionary svg logo-as.svg | This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation). |
| Default project timezone | CET (UTC+1) | "Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones) |
| Additional namespaces | For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk". | |
| Additional settings | Anything else that should be set | |
Proposal
[edit]There was an Assamese Wiktionary opened earlier, however was closed and moved to incubator due to inactivity (http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/as).
However, now we want to revive this project. This is a request to please re open the project.
Psneog 11:56, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]Arguments in favour
[edit]Basic Information
[edit]- Assamese language is spoken in Assam (India), West Bengal (India), Arunachal (India), they use Arunachali dialect of Assamese, Nagaland(India), they use Nagamese dialect of Assamese, Bangladesh and various places of the Assamese communities (large number seen in Bangalore(India), Pune(India), the United States etc.) in various parts of world.
- Assamese is the official language in Assam
- Approximately 16,709,000 people in Assam speak Assamese,
- Dialects: Jharwa (Pidgin), Mayang, Standard Assamese, Western Assamese (Kamrupi), Nagamese and Arunachali
- Assamese is often used in all the states various ways, like words borrowed from it or as a connecting language. Assamese has been working as a very important connecting language in North- East India since medieval times.
- Assamese alphabet maps one to one to the Devanagari alphabets
- Assamese alphabet differs only three letters from Bengali, and so it isn't hard to design the Assamese Wiktionary, as Bengali Wiktionary ( https://bn.wiktionary.org/ ) is already there.
- The Assamese Wikipedia has approx 2990 articles in it and growing. It is a successful project.
Other Causes
[edit]- There are very few up-to-date paper dictionaries in Assamese.
- Most of the people, especially poor students don't get access to a good dictionary, but can access it via mobile, which are available even in the far corners of the state.
- Wiktionary can help poor Assamese students, who can't buy the expensive dictionaries (most of the good printed Assamese dictionaries are fat and too costly). Students can access the internet at a rate of less than 20 rupees per hour.
- Wikimedia specific: Most of the technical terms are not available in Assamese and there is a dire need to have an online dictionary
- Assamese doesn't have a on-line spell checker,
Edited by- Psneog 09:07, 21 October 2011 (UTC) and IKHazarika ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:IKHazarika )