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Requests for new languages (Wikinews Kurdish)

Discussion verification final decision Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Votes will be ignored when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them (see the Language proposal policy). (See an unofficial analysis of this request.)

Contents 1 Kurdish Wikinews 1.1 Arguments in favour 1.2 Arguments against 1.3 General discussion

Proposal summary
Language details: Kurdish (ku / كوردي, ISO 639-2)
Users interested in forming an editing community: Add N beside users that are native speakers, and P beside the original proposers' names. Bangin (NP), Bohater (N), Millosh
Relevant pages: development wiki project
External links: The Kurdish Wikipedia
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• Number of speakers: 26.000.000 million of people
• Location spoken: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Armenia, Lebanon.

[edit] Arguments in favour

• &Y  Support There do already exist Kurdish WikiMedia-Projects, e.g. the kurdish Wikipedia with now nearly 10.000 articles and a wiktionary with nearly 35.000 articles. So there will be a future for this new Kurdish Project. --Bangin 17:34, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
• &Y  Support It is necessary for every language to live in all aspects of Wikimedia. --Zandweb 02:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
• &Y  Support. --Kaaveh Ahangar 22:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• &Y  Support there are 20 - 25 million people speaks this language. Wikinews is necessary for millions of Kurds. --Maviulke12 05:02, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
• &YSupport - I support it! --Mirzali 22:29, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
• &YSupport - I support it to, we need that! Kurdodino 13:15, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• &YSupport Kurdish Wiktionary is a particularly successful project and I am confident that the Wikinews would be as well. Bogorm 17:06, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
• &Y  Support Euskaldun 15:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• &YSupport

[edit] Arguments against

•   Comment Out of the 10,000 articles practically almost all are stubs created in a bot like manner. There are serious problems on KU wiki on a variety of problems ranging from neutrality to copyright violations. KU.wiki doesn't have much of a matured community. Very few active editors. I feel it is far too early for this. It should be experimented on the incubator either way. -- Cat ^chi? 17:41, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

  I'd like to add that wikinews has time constraints unlike other wikis. I do not believe there is enough of a Kurdish wikipedia community to cover world news in a systematic manner. -- Cat ^chi? 11:45, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

•   Comment I thing this project won't be good. --Absar 10:41, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

  This wasn't an argument against, it was just an opinion without any comment. --Bangin 14:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

  Please do not strike out other peoples comments even if you disagree with them. The closing person of this discussion is more than qualified to weight arguments. -- Cat ^chi? 14:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

• &N  Oppose No activity. --OosWesThoesBes 06:57, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
• &N  Oppose Not enough support (Red4tribe 17:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC))
• &N  Oppose Please focus first on Wikipedia, before starting spin-offs. --Jeroen 02:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
• &N  Oppose Per OosWesThoesBes and Red4tribe. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 09:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
• &N  Oppose As Jeroen said, the Wikipedia is too underdeveloped Rbritt518 06:22, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
• &N  Oppose Oppose--Aycan 11:52, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
• &N  Oppose As Jeroen and Rbritt518 said,they should improve their wikipedia first,to start Wikinews.--Rockermert hsm 17:35, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• &N  Nope, Wikinewses need to be fast and I see hardly any activity to justify the creation of this Wikinews. Pmlineditor  Talk 16:57, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] General discussion