Requests for new languages/Wikinews Hindi

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[edit] Hindi Wikinews

Discussion verification final decision This language has been verified as eligible. Although the language is eligible for a project, the community still needs to meet some requirements described in the language proposal policy. In the meantime, you can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. (See an unofficial analysis of this request.)

             आशीष भटनागरसंदेश (NP)

[edit] Arguments in favour

There are some users, who have already supported about this. This is the link.

• &Y  Strong support, Shyam ^(T/C) 05:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• &Y  Strong support- yup one of the largest spoken languages in the world deserves its own wikinews since India and china will one day exceed USA and Britain in terms of providing news coverage/internet development and this will be a great start..--Cometstyles 08:07, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• &Y  SupportAlready said, but I will repeat it, one of the most spoken languages in the world. Will be very useful someday. (Red4tribe 17:03, 23 April 2008 (UTC))
• &Y  पूर्ण समर्थन --Rajeevmass 12:20, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• &Y  पूर्ण समर्थन --पूर्णिमा वर्मन 14:45, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• &Y Support Hindi wiki-community is expanding very rapidly. Also, Hindi is one of the largest languages of the world.--Eukesh 17:43, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
• &Y  Full Support The Chinese Wikinews has done well - Hindi has the potential to do the same. This would also be used by Non Resident Indians who reside all around the world, meaning not just Indian Nationals will benefit. --RaviC
• &Y  Full Support - One of the major world languages should have indeed have a WikiNews. --Jeroen 02:15, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
• &Y Support Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 04:10, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
• &Y  Full support | पूर्ण समर्थन, abutorsam007 02:08, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
• &Y  Yup. Pmlineditor^Talk 17:03, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
• &Y  पूर्ण समर्थन (Full Support) 59.177.72.105 14:52, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Arguments against

[edit] Localisation update

• Currently 98.61% of the MediaWiki messages and 88.89% 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 10:33, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 85.43% of the MediaWiki messages and 61.14% 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 11:09, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 80.50% of the MediaWiki messages and 44.13% 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 22:12, 17 February 2009 (UTC)