Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Ao

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Ao Wikipedia

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.) The closing committee member provided the following comment: Although the language is suitable, a successful test project is required before the request can be approved. To contribute, see the instructions on the Incubator main page and the test project. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. —{admin} Pathoschild 03:45:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Ao is a Kuki-Chin-Naga language (of the Tibeto-Burman family) spoken by the Ao people of the Indian state of Nagaland. The census of 1991 puts the number of the speakers at 169,837.Current estimates (2006) put the number of Ao speakers at around 260,000. The Ao tribe is one of the largest tribes in Nagaland and the language is popular in all the three major cities of the state - Dimapur,Kohima and Mokokchung. Ao is one of the official languages of Nagaland and is the main language in Mokokchung district.

Arguments in favour

• &Y  Ao language is one of the major languages of north-east India, with various varieties and sub-lects. For more reference, refer to [1]
  A lot of Ao speaking people wish to read Wikipedia in their mother tongue as it is much easier to do so than reading in English.
  Strong support I am strongly for an Ao Wikipedia. Apart from Ao people, many tribes specially in the eastern districts of Mon, Tuensang, Kiphire and Longleng use it as a common language and hence is a second language for many in Nagaland. Also, not only is Ao the most spoken Naga language in Nagaland, it is also the language with the largest literature among the Naga languages. —unsigned by Tsuranger 14:56, 12 February 2007.
• &Y  Strong support --Jose77 22:41, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• &Y  Support I support this, if they can maked a test wp. —unsigned by Node ue 02:24, 27 February 2007.
• &Y  Strong support Whew! i didnt know that a proposal had been put up for a wiki in my language. Strong support for Ao Wikipedia! —unsigned by Whereami 15:12, 2 March 2007.
• &Y  Strong support It may be mentioned that Ao Dictionary was the first dictionary in a Naga language, when the late scholar, Renthy Keitzar compiled it. Regarding the query by Node ue,isnt Ao test wp already there?--Stratosfart 14:45, 5 March 2007 (UTC)stratosfart
• &Y  Support There are enough interested people who want to work there, (and a nice language). --Thogo (talk) 23:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
• &Y  Support I change my mind after I saw the correct link with the articles. Good luck guys! --Visconsus 18:50, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
• &Y  Support Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 04:56, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
• &Y  Support There are some people interested in creating wikipedia Ao, so why not? --Wisconsus 15:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
• &Y  Support Hugo.arg 12:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
• &Y  Support，4 native speakers are enough--Biŋhai 12:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Arguments against

• &N  Oppose 140.000 speakers and only a few are connected to the internet. I think it is too early. --Jeroen 02:42, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

No. Later can be too late. --Wisconsus 15:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

General discussion

Localisation update

• No localisation has been done so far on Betawiki.. GerardM 20:42, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 0.00% of the most used MediaWiki messages 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 11:39, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
• Please ask at translatewiki.net for support your language. Without the localisation of the most used messages, the creation of a Wikipedia for your language will not happen. Once translatewiki.net supports your language, localisations are likely to be available the next day after you added new localisation. Thanks, GerardM 09:29, 5 October 2009 (UTC)