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[edit] Mentawai Wikipedia
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A language spoken on the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia by 65,000 people. --OosWesThoesBes 08:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Arguments in favour
- Agreed with OosWesThoesBes comment below --Andri.h 04:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
- Es gibt noch keine Enzyklopädie in die Mentawei Sprache. Es wird sicherlich ein gutes Projekt werden. Päge bintën 09:44, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
- Mentawai Islands and Padang are one province, but, their language is different Azmi1995 09:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- Other Indonesian languages have been successful no reason to think this one wont, no doubt a language, proper ISO code and native and willing participants, lets go!Qrc2006 18:56, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- support, Willy2000 13:39, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Arguments against
- Why this request ? There are thousands of other languages ... GerardM 20:00, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
- This is one of the few coded languages I speak well enough for a Wikipedia which hasn't got a Wikipedia yet. The other possibility was Karaim. --OosWesThoesBes 15:07, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
- Obviously there is no interested community. --Thogo (talk) 08:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
- Why not? I currently have got contact with native speakers and I will show them the advantages of a Wikipedia. They might be interested, and don't forget me :) --OosWesThoesBes 15:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
- Weakly against. Is there already standard Mentawainese writing? Is there any literature written in Mentawainese? I will support wiktionary for the language, but not wikipedia. Kembangraps 09:12, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Other discussion
- Hey, where is the Native speaker of Mentawai language Azmi1995 02:49, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Localisation update
- Currently 35.76% 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 12:20, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
