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[edit] Gagauz Wikipedia

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Proposal summary
Language details:
Gagauz (gagauzça, gag ISO 639-3)
Users interested in forming an editing community:
Add N beside users that are native speakers, and P beside the original proposers' names.
Cuman (NP), Kaykauz (NP), Viktormd (NP), AQUA (P), Yamayka (NP), profeSSor (NP)
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[edit] Arguments in favour

  • &Y  Strong Support: Gagauz is a living language with about 230,000 speakers in the world, 147,500 in Moldova, 31,500 in Ukraine, 15 000 in Turkey, 11 000 in Russia and unknown but sizeble amount in Bulgaria, Greece and Romania. There are newspapers, magazines and even TV and radio broadcasts in this language in Gagauzia. It has written tradition. In Moldova and Gagauzia, gagauz language is studied in schools and universities. User:Cuman 09.57, 07 December 2007 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support per above. The language has enough speakers, established written standard and official status in Gagauz Autonomous territory. Don Alessandro 16:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
  • &Y  Strong Support: Native speakers of Gagauz are willing to contribute to this project in the long-term, hence this project has the potential to flourish like the other Turkic language Wikipedia editions. Therefore the Gagauz language ought to be given the opportunity and priviledge to have its own language edition of Wikipedia. --Jose77 07:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • &Y  Strong Support per User:Cuman --Russianname 12:38, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support - a living and spoken language, officially recognized in Gagauzia and having a notable web presence. Support with the usual condition - let it grow in the incubator first. But the current incubator looks promising! --Amir E. Aharoni 21:56, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support per User:Cuman. any language has a right to have its own wikipedia. --Riwnodennyk 16:36, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support. A language with enough number of speakers and with an official status.--Yaroslav Blanter 21:38, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support, language has the right qualifications to have a Wikipedia. Khutuck 16:06, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support language speak 500,000 people.--Uannis 19:34, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Strong User:Cuman explain in on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagauz_language there are 150,000 speakers and all Turkic language Wikipedia editions can help this Wikipedia project me too.--Absar 15:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support. According to ethnologue, 89% of 150,000 people speak it as the first language. --Volkov 13:59, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support500.000 people means we have to create this. --Kafkasmurat 18:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support support gagauz language. A lot of gagauz speakers on the earth. --Memty 11:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Strong Support: There are enough gagauz speakers in the world. This project could gather all gagauz speaking people.--Vusal1981 01:32, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support per above.--Ahonc 13:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Strong support (I know voting was abolished a long time ago here, but wanted to express my sympathy anyhow...). --ARBE0 16:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Strong support 230 000 speakers IS absolutely enough to create a Wiki-society. Check out, e.g. the Inupiak version of Wikipedia (3 500 living users). So as to expresss my sympathy to Gagauz people, I strongly support this Wikipedia. Timpul 17:10, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 05:19, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support. The test project is well developed, so I bet it is worth becoming Wikipedia. --Wisconsus 19:27, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
  • &Y  Support. Well developed--Biŋhai 12:50, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Arguments against

  • &N  Oppose Извините за мой английский! Гагаузский язык имеет слишком мало носителей, что бы образовать вики-языковый-проект.

Если он будет создан, то он захиреет и умрёт через месяца 2-3! Носителей гагаузского языка меньше, чем население Кишинёва в котором не так уж и много Википедистов! --Inquisitorex 18:48, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

    • Translation: Excuse my English! Gagauz languae language has too few speakers to create a wiki-language-project. If it will be created, it will wither and die after 2-3 months! There are less people speaking Gagauz than people living in Chişinău where there aren't many Wikipedians. (translated by Amir E. Aharoni).

[edit] General discussion

  • At this moment there has not been any localisation done in BetaWiki. When the first messages have been translated, Gagauz will get a place in the statistics and the messages will become available in the Incubator and the other Wikimedia Foundation projects in a few days. Thanks, GerardM 16:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • The localisation is done.. There is however no activity at the moment ... GerardM 20:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 93.76% 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 11:57, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
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