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Requests for new languages (Wikinews Sinhala)

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.

Proposal summary
Language details: Sinhala (සිංහල, si ISO 639-1) Editing community: පසිඳු කාවින්ද N P, Budhajeewa N P, Thameera123 N P, තඹරු විජේසේකර N,Keheliya N, බිඟුවා N , Shane44 N, Kasun Gajasinghe N, Shelan N, Indranama N, Sansarasidu N, Chavie N,Sampath waruna N, Lee N, ChathuCN N,inckka N,rkkasun,Kaviranga N, යූත්මැක්ස් N Kasun_Indi N අඛිල N 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: Government of Sri Lanka's Sinhala Website.
Localization
Project name: විකිපුවත් The name of the project in the requested language; for example, "Wikipédia" in French. Project namespace: විකිපුවත් The name of the namespace for project pages like policies; usually the same as the project name. Project_talk namespace: විකිපුවත් සාකච්ඡාව The name of the discussion namespace for project pages like policies; for example, "Wikipedia talk" in English. Wiki logo: The name of the wiki logo uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, like "Wikipedia-logo-v2-pl.png" (see logo). Default timezone: SLT (UTC+5:30) The default timezone on the wiki, like "CET (UTC+1)". This is usually the default UTC. User interface: See Translatewiki.
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Arguments in favour

• &Y  Strongly Support: Following Wikimedia projects already have Sinhala language editions.

Wikipedia - Wikipedia Sinhala (විකිපිඩියා)

Wiktionary - Wiktionary Sinhala (වික්‍ෂනරි)

Wikibooks - Wikibooks Sinhala (විකිපොත්)

Those projects reflects that the Sinhala language is already recognized by Wikimedia, and, many Wikimedia projects are popular among Sinhala reading people. So, Wikinews is much needed project that should be supporting Sinhala language. -- Budhajeewa 06:45, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

• &Y  Strongly Support Sinhala is a language spoken by about 16 million people in Sri Lanka and around the world. Sinhala content has seen a rapid increase during the previous year due to the popularization of Sinhala Unicode. --Thameera123 07:03, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
• &Y  Strongly Support The Sinhala Wikipedia have more active Admins & Users and it gets new users daily. As a contributor of that I did 239 edits during last 30 days. Many Sinhala students are learning from these sites and most of sinhalians likes these wiki projects. So I think WikiNews might be useful for all and it might get large contributions & contributors.--තඹරු විජේසේකර 09:11, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support -- බිඟුවා ^{සාකච්ඡාව} 03:08, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support --සදීප 06:40, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support --Lee 13:04, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support - don't forget about NPOV ;) Przykuta 08:07, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
• &Y  Strongly Support Wikinews Sinhala must be created because it is very useful for all.--Pasindu Kavinda  ^Talk 13:18, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Arguments against

• Oppose -- SEVERAL REASONS

1. Community not large enough to have updated news
2. News culture in the country (Sri Lanka) is not well accepted by mass. Negative view on si.wikinews might harm reputation of other wiki projects.
3. As community is not large enough, emphasis on this will cause reduced contribution for other projects.
4. When Sri Lanka and Sinhala is considered wikinews is having less priority.

Simply, this is not the correct timing for this.

Still, if this project is approved I wish all the best !Singhalawap 12:13, 25 December 2010 (UTC)