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[edit] Basque Wikinews

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Proposal summary
Language details:
Basque (euskara, eu ISO-639-1)
Users interested in forming an editing community:
Add N beside users that are native speakers, and P beside the original proposers' names.
Aral_eh (NP)
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[edit] Arguments in favour

  • &Y  Support Basque is a language that is different from all the other languages there are. The Wikipedia runs good. There are many people who speak basque. --Ooswesthoesbes 15:59, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support Good idea KoMuNeRo MaG 17:56, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support Good idea, and Basque projects are good--Bengoa (My user talk) 18:21, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support It's a extremely good idea to create Basque Wikinews. Although Basque is a small language (spoken by +1,200,000 people worldwide), it should have Wikinews proyect. i think it's very interesting and many people would contribute. For example the Basque Wikipedia has 35,000 articles and more than 3,000 users. I think that this proposal should be accepted. Moreover, has this proyect any inconvenience? --An13sa 18:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 04:08, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support Euskaldun 15:44, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Arguments against

  • &N  Oppose I'm not saying it would be a bad idea I just don't believe there would be enough people to keep it running (Red4tribe 16:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC))
  • &N  Oppose The Basque Wikipedia is to small to have a News spinoff. --jeroen 02:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] General discussion

First, I'm sorry because of my English.

I think the Basque language needs a Wikinews in euskara. The basque language has his wikipedia, with 26,000 articles actually, and more tham 2,000 users. Basque is a litle language between big languages (French, Spanish...) but I have to sau that: Basque is the first language in Europe, I think a Basque Wikinews will be interesting.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Arah_eh (talk • contribs) .Tosão 14:02, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

I agree with you. Basque is the oldest language in Europe (it has more than 3,000 years) and it should have a wikinews page. Tosão I have to correct you. Now (2009-february), the Basque wikipedia has 35,283 articles and 7,153 users. See [1] for more statistics.

[edit] Localisation update

  • Currently 76.00% of the MediaWiki messages and 26.19% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 06:58, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 89.11% of the MediaWiki messages and 20.42% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 10:31, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 94.80% of the MediaWiki messages and 12.11% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 11:07, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 99.96% of the MediaWiki messages and 48.28% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 22:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
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