Requests for new languages/Wikinews Kurdish

Kurdish Wikinews

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Requests for new languages (Wikinews Kurdish)

submitted verification final decision 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. (See an unofficial analysis of this request.)

Proposal summary
Language details: Kurdish (ku / كوردي, ISO 639-2) Editing community: Bangin (NP), Bohater (N), Millosh List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. 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.

Arguments in favour

• Support 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)
• Support Support It is necessary for every language to live in all aspects of Wikimedia. --Zandweb 02:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support Support. --Kaaveh Ahangar 22:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Support Support there are 20 - 25 million people speaks this language. Wikinews is necessary for millions of Kurds. --Maviulke12 05:02, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
• Support Support I support it.I agree Maviulkel12.85.176.140.77 14:12, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support - I support it! --Mirzali 22:29, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support - I support it to, we need that! Kurdodino 13:15, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
• Support 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)
• Support Support Euskaldun 15:46, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
• Support I support this project. --Veritas-tr 18:46, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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)

  There is something funny. All people who oppose Wikinews Kurdish are Turks. You really care Wiki - projects or you are just againist Kurdish culture? --Gomada 18:15, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose Oppose No activity. --OosWesThoesBes 06:57, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Oppose Not enough support (Red4tribe 17:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC))
• Oppose Oppose Please focus first on Wikipedia, before starting spin-offs. --Jeroen 02:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Oppose Per OosWesThoesBes and Red4tribe. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 09:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Oppose As Jeroen said, the Wikipedia is too underdeveloped Rbritt518 06:22, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Oppose Oppose--Aycan 11:52, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose Oppose As Jeroen and Rbritt518 said,they should improve their wikipedia first,to start Wikinews.--Rockermert hsm 17:35, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose 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)