[edit] Bafia Wikipedia
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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.) |
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| Proposal summary |
- Language details: Bafia (rikpa, ksf ISO 639-3)
- Editing community: UJung (N), Dor_nis (N), Tamara Ustinova
- 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:
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| Localization |
- Project name: Wikipɛ́dya
- The name of the project in the requested language; for example, "Wikipédia"
in French.
- Project namespace: Wikipɛ́dya
- The name of the namespace for project pages like policies; usually the same
as the project name.
- Project_talk namespace: Discussion Wikipɛ́dya
- The name of the discussion namespace for project pages like policies; for
example, "Wikipedia talk" in English.
- Wiki logo: Wikipedia svg logo-ksf.png
- The name of the wiki logo uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, like
"Wikipedia-logo-v2-pl.png" (see logo).
- Default timezone: WAT (UTC+1)
- The default timezone on the wiki, like "CET (UTC+1)". This is usually the
default UTC.
- User interface: See Translatewiki.
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Rikpa aka Bafia is a language mainly spoken in the capital of the Mbam and Inoubou Division with the same name in Cameroon's Center region. Another main cluster of speakers can be find in Cameroons capital Yaounde. Ethnologue refers to a census from 1991 which deals with about 60.000 speakers. Due to demographic growth and social demographic factors the number of speakers should reached 120.000 to 150.000. One of the main targets of the proposal is to provide an online platform, where written texts can be easily published and cross checked. This will help to promote local culture and the use of an own languages for the transfer of information. UJung 09:48, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Arguments in favour
- Native speakers are at the starting point. This request is a practical test of how a wikipedia project can be started and organized for one or more Cameroon languages. The project is part of a workshop series about localization of Cameroon languages. It's called "Going kompyuta"( [1]). So please be patient and give us a chance. Request for other CM_languages will come soon. UJung 21:14, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
- Native speakers are now in the group UJung 20:14, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
- Support. Pretty little Wiki.--Tamara Ustinova 19:11, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
- Support per above.--Ħalliel 10:17, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Support. 60.000 speakers is a lot. Wikipedia will help the building of educators and intellectuals and will help to fight illiteracy in Africa. Kubura 03:48, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Arguments against
- Oppose No native speakers of this language indicated working on this particular project. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 19:52, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
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