Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Kyrgyz Wikibooks

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Task T413845

This is a proposal for closing and/or deleting a wiki hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is subject to the current closing projects policy.

The proposal for closing b:ky: is accepted and the proposed actions should be taken.

A Language Committee member provided the following comment:
Proposal fully accepted. Will be implemented in the following days. --MF-W 12:00, 24 December 2025 (UTC) [Done, one page remains as suggested by Equalwidth. --MF-W 22:45, 9 January 2026 (UTC)][reply]

Type: 1 (routine proposal)
Proposed outcome: closure
Proposed action regarding the content: all content should be deleted other than the Community Portal and the one legitimate book module which will both be fully protected.
Notice on the project: b:ky:Wikibooks:Жамаат порталы#(en) Proposal for closure
Informed Group(s):

Proposal

The Kyrgyz Wikibooks is a lot smaller than what I first pictured when I heard the words "Kyrgyz Wikibooks". Despite that, it already has an RfC, one that is wrong in one aspect. The claim of 6 legitimate book modules. That's off by five. Why? Most of them are just information pages about random stuff and there's also one that's formatted like an offseason April Fool's joke with random asterisks everywhere. The one that is legitimate according to both me and User:Rschen7754 is b:ky:Электрондук почта. Even that is kind of like a documentation page for email that just goes really in-depth about how it works. I was not able to find any other even slightly fitting or original content. That's called lack of content since the wiki's creation. The Wikibooks has just three native speakers of Kyrgyz registered and one or two could be lying. The number of contributions by all of them combined is 4. If not even native speakers of Kyrgyz are interested in making Kyrgyz Wikibooks not get a closure proposal, why would anyone? You can read more about the pages in detail in Rschen7754's RfC, and I propose that the Kyrgyz Wikibooks be closed for good because of the reasons I provided. Equalwidth (talk) 06:26, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I'm not going to !vote here since I've mostly retired from Wikimedia projects and don't really have the time to do a lot of research. I also am not a Kyrgyz or a Wikibooks expert. But I do have to say, reading what I wrote in the RFC, that there are serious problems on this wiki that should be addressed, even if the result isn't a closure. --Rs chen 7754 18:24, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ky.wikibooks has no sysops, but (except commonly known bot-like Abuse filter (talk · contribs)) ky.wikipedia has one: @Bosogo:, maybe we need their opinions about situation of ky projects. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:41, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support. The project has only seen 443 edits in total since it was opened over 20 years ago (ignoring edits to deleted pages, bot edits, user/user talk page edits, and a wave of page move vandalism in 2024) [1]. Many of these are vandalism and vandalism reverts as well as technical maintenance edits (fixing lint errors, global users editing MediaWiki: pages). Some of the more recent edits add content that belongs on Kyrgyz Wikipedia, including someone adding a description of what accounting is to the "Category:Accounting" page and an article on the "vector dominance model". Other pages are likely copyvios.
In general it seems to me that the Kyrgyz wiki editing community simply has no need for this site, nor any energy to maintain it.
The Kyrgyz Wikipedia contributor Aiyanakk (talk · contribs) made some edits to Wikibooks to fix templates and so forth within the past year, and may be able to offer some input. This, that and the other (talk) 07:03, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fulfils the "lack of meaningful content since creation" criterion. While Wikibooks is generally not that edit-heavy as a Wikipedia is, the fact basically nothing was created in 20 (!) years speaks volumes that even having a fairly stable living language like Kyrgyz is doesn't translate to a successful wiki project.--176.104.110.11 17:22, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I do not speak the language either but I think all the files lack a license and should be deleted anyway. See b:ky:Special:ListFiles. --MGA73 (talk) 17:29, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Liuxinyu970226: Thank you for mention (twice). Regarding the discussion: it really is.--Bosogo (talk) 14:17, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Kyrgyz remains a widely spoken language. I am confident that the project will expand shortly.--Xh6044 (talk) 04:44, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This oppose user is now global locked, should I strike this comment? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 07:14, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Has no active community and thus functionally no active readerbase. The RfC alone makes for a solid case for closing kywikibooks. //shb (t • c) 12:33, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Very low number of active editors and as mentioned above there is a lack of meaningful content despite being open for a long time so there is a good case for closure.GothicGolem29 (Talk) 19:18, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support No content, no activity. Delete as per nomination. --Sabelöga (talk) 22:40, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]