Requests for new languages/Wikinews Javanese

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Requests for new languages (Wikinews Javanese)

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.)

Contents 1 Javanese Wikinews 1.1 Arguments in favour 1.2 Arguments against 1.3 General discussion 2 Localisation update

Proposal summary
Language details: Javanese (Basa Jawa, jav ISO 639-3)
Users interested in forming an editing community: Add N beside users that are native speakers, and P beside the original proposers' names. Meursault2004 (PN), TracySurya (N), Pras (N)
Relevant pages: Test project Requests for new languages/Wikinews Javanese
External links: Javanese Wikipedia Suara Merdeka a newspaper based in Central Java, with some articles in Javanese
Please read Meta:Language proposal policy for help using this template correctly.

• Number of speakers: 80–100 million total (including second language speakers)
• Locations spoken: Java (Indonesia), Suriname, New Caledonia

[edit] Arguments in favour

• &Y  Support In January 1855, the first newspaper in Javanese the Bramartani appeared. It was initiated by the Dutch businessman Daniël Hartevelt. However after the Second World War in 1945 and Indonesia's independence, there was no more newspaper in Javanese. The replacement was a weekly or two weekly newspaper. With the Javanese Wikinews, hopefully the news in the Javanese language will be revitalized an will be an alternative for news in the dominant national language of Indonesia; Indonesian. Meursault2004 18:13, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

• &Y  Support If you can find enough people willing to help, go ahead and do it. (Red4tribe 16:59, 26 April 2008 (UTC))

• &Y  Support I believe there should be more than Meursault will do this. I am in favour --Andri.h 17:00, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

• &Y Support Same as Andri.h Azmi1995 07:56, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

• &Y  Support I totally agree to the forming of Javanese Wikinews 48th ronin 01:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

• &Y  Support I will try to help. TracySurya 00:27, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

• &Y  Support It will surely help preserve this language. Pras 22:54, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arguments against

• &N  Oppose To early for WikiNews. Please focus on Wikipedia and later maybe if that's large enough you can try WikiNews. --Jeroen 02:17, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] General discussion

[edit] Localisation update

• Currently 97.56% of the MediaWiki messages and 59.59% 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 11:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)