Requests for new languages/Wikinews Urdu

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Requests for new languages (Wikinews Urdu)

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 Urdu Wikinews 1.1 Arguments in favour 1.2 Arguments against 1.3 Other discussion 2 Localisation update

Proposal summary
Language details: Urdu (اردو, ur ISO 639-1)
Users interested in forming an editing community: Add N beside users that are native speakers, and P beside the original proposers' names. User:Chowdhury (NP) User:Azamishaque (NP)
Relevant pages:
External links: Urdu Wikpedia
Please read Meta:Language proposal policy for help using this template correctly.

It will be useful to Urdu internet user to report news from worldwide. Approximately, there are 270 million of speakers worldwide. I strongly feel it deserves its own Wikinews.--Chowdhury 18:42, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Arguments in favour

• &Y  Support Its a good initiative and i positively recomends Urdu wikinews, Azamishaque 11:04, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
• &YSupport --Mirzali

Arguments against

• &N  Oppose Currently, the Urdu Wikipedia has less than 10,000 articles and only 66 users with edits or log actions last month. I don't think it's enough to sustain activity on Wikinews in this language. While certainly not every user of Wikinews contributes to Wikipedia and vice versa, still the practice shows that Wikinews are much less active than Wikipedias in their languages. Another difference is that on Wikipedia you can create a stub and leave it, and then someone will stumble upon it and improve it. But on Wikinews there must alway be a certain number of fresharticles, otherwise the project will be useless. I don't believe the there are enough Urdu users to keep the proposed project alive. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 19:15, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Other discussion

Localisation update

• Currently 20.04% of the MediaWiki messages and 1.68% 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. Localising the "most used messages" first has the biggest impact on the usability of Wikis in Urdu. Thanks, GerardM 08:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
• Currently 25.8% of the MediaWiki messages and 1.1% 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. ‎محبوب عالم has been translating a bit in the past 5 months, but at the current rate, it will take years to meet the requirement. Cheers! Siebrand 23:19, 14 September 2009 (UTC)