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[edit] Kinaray-a Wikipedia

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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 subcommittee 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 04:03:09, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
The test project has been deemed a success. The only step left before the creation of a Kinaray-a Wikipedia is the translation of the basic wiki interface; if you'd like to contribute, please see "Localization" on the talk page. Jon Harald Søby 19:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

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Proposal summary
Language details:
Kinaray-a (krj 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.
incubator:RonaldPanaligan (N), incubator:Rhyxis (N)
Relevant pages:
External links:
Please read Meta:Language proposal policy for help using this template correctly.
  • Speakers: 1,051,968
  • Location(s) spoken: Iloilo, Antique, and Western Panay provinces of the Philippines.

[edit] Arguments in favour

  • Strong Support - There are two native speakers whom have already contributed twenty-nine articles in the test wiki. A few more native speakers will be able to bring this language to life. --Jose77 05:27, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong support, just as versions of Wikipedia in other Philippine languages exist. —Lagalag 08:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. Pietras1988 19:09, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Support - Kinaray-a is one of the major languages of the Philippines having a minimum of one million people who speak it as a first language. --Harvzsf 01:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. As stated above, it is a major Philippine language with over a million speakers, particularly in the Western Visayas region where it is primarily spoken in four provinces (Antique, Capiz, Iloilo, and Guimaras. Perhaps Aklan as well). There is a growing presence of Karay-as on the internet and they have their own YahooGroup full of people dedicated to using their language in literature and their like. I give them my fullest support. --Chris S. 03:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. --Bentong Isles 11:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Support, with Kinaray-a one of the major Philippine languages, we cannot have this segment of the population ignored. --Sky Harbor 01:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. With more than one million speakers, Kinaray-a should have its own Wikipedia. Katimawan2005 15:00, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Support --Mananaliksik 13:14, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Strong Support** Hanggod gid ang pagsuporta ko sa Kinaray-a nga linguahi -ginatudlo ko dya sa akon Apo "ang pagbasa kag sulat" kang Alpabetika nga Kinaray-a version. --(User: Consolita 11:57, 20 July 2007 (CA)
  • Weak support The language is dying due to further influence of Hiligaynon, Tagalog and English, and speakers are considerably low. That is why we must have this project to make sure that Kinaray-a will survive. However I pretty much doubt that this project will be active due to the activity being shown by other minority language Wikipedias, which are pretty much bot edits. -- Felipe Aira 07:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Arguments against

  • none.

[edit] General discussion

  • Currently 19.22% of the most used messages have been localised. Thanks, GerardM 21:23, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
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