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Proposal
en:I think the zh-yue wikipedia has been made some articles and I think it need some spaces to save the news.
support. cantonese wikimedians have formed a community, and there are many more cantonese authors in the blog world. a wikinews in cantonese can link up the two. Hillgentleman 12:08, 13 January 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
support. Cantonese Wikinews will bring us more Cantonese Wiki projects.--Symane 09:36, 21 January 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
support. Reason as above.-HW 11:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
support. Cantonese is one of the way to expressing the contents, without changing the meaaning (which is in the original Cantonese script). Shinjiman 06:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Reluctant support - Despite the reputation of Wikinews as not successful as media outlet, this language Wikinews can attract Cantonese-speaking original reporters, including ones who want to stay away from the existing HK and Chinese media. --George Ho (talk) 11:44, 8 May 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Tl;dr, is there really a newspaper or a news site which is written in Cantonese script (廣東話用字)? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:00, 29 December 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Liuxinyu979226: yes, you can randomly grab an Apple Daily or Oriental Daily (HK edition) from news stand or browse their sites then you can see there're use of Cantonese in different articles, especially for sections like Entertainment, Leisure and Sports. For other sections like headlines, use of Cantonese would be more restricted but you can still notice their existence from time to time in these sections. Also, I don't think creation of a new wikinews site would require the language being used in written form for news elsewhere first.C933103 (talk) 20:49, 7 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Localisation update
Currently the localisation for the MediaWiki core is at 99.41% and, the localisation for the messages in extensions that are used by the WMF is at 62.56%. Both need to be at 100%.. Thanks, GerardM 14:10, 24 December 2009 (UTC)Reply[reply]
MediaWiki core have done, please update the unofficial status. I have request an update on Talk:Language committee already. -HW 03:34, 2 January 2010 (UTC)Reply[reply]
