Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Thao

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submitted verification final decision

This proposal has been rejected.
This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy based on the discussion on this page.

A committee member provided the following comment:

SIL now categorizes this language as extinct. In that case, the language needs to meet the stricter standards for eligibility of extinct and historical languages, and Thao does not. Project can remain on Incubator. For LangCom: StevenJ81 (talk) 16:33, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
  • The community needs to complete required MediaWiki interface translations in that language (about localization, translatewiki, check completion).
  • The community needs to discuss and complete the settings table below:
What Value Example / Explanation
Proposal
Language code ssf (SILGlottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Thao Language name in English
Language name Thao Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ...
Language Wikidata item Q676492 - item has currently the following values:
Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed.
Directionality no indication Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
Links Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.

Settings
Project name Wikipedia "Wikipedia" in your language
Project namespace usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace "Wikipedia talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads no Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons.
If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin").
Notes: (1) This setting can be changed afterwards. The setting can only be "yes" or "admin" at approval if the test creates an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) first. (2) Files on Commons can be used on all Wikis. (3) Uploading fair-use images is not allowed on Commons (more info). (4) Localisation to your language may be insufficient on Commons.
Optional settings
Project logo This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone Asia/Taipei "Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
Additional settings Anything else that should be set
submit Phabricator task. It will include everything automatically, except additional namespaces/settings. After creating the task, add a link to the comment.

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Proposal[edit]

Discussion[edit]

Support A good language without any doubts even language name. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:29, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support 夢蝶葬花@生涯不敗 14:52, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Liuxinyu970226 and 五月雨恋歌: Currently as SIL changed the status of this language to extinct, langcom has to consider if rejecting is possible or not on this request, if no more comments provided (but the test project will be kept even rejected). --117.13.95.102 06:12, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
117.13.95.102, you may also ping contributors of it in the past 3 months: @Vista940521, Apin80325, Yan928891, Mashareaknia, and JuHanHsieh:@Os003, Temusuyan1990, Akamycoco, and Cuaxdon:. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:11, 26 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]


New Discussion[edit]

Hi there! It seems that the previous request was rejected. I just found that in these two months, this test project goes active. Only here to see that is it possible to request again maybe after a few months(if it stays active still then)?Ripunn (talk) 10:32, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Ripunn: Please consider creating a new request instead of open this section, thx. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:47, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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