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Requests for new languages/Wikinews Dutch

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submitted verification final decision

This proposal has been approved.
The Board of Trustees and language committee have deemed that there is sufficient grounds and community to create the new language project.

A committee member provided the following comment:

  • 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 nl (SILGlottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Dutch Language name in English
Language name Nederlands (Dutch), (Vlaams (Flemish)) 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 Q7411 - 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 Wikinieuws "Wikinews" in your language
Project namespace Wikinieuws usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace Overleg "Wikinews talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads yes 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 File:WikiNews-Logo-nl 135.png This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone Europe/Brussels and Europe/Amsterdam "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 1) Request to purchase the following domain names: www.wikinieuws.nl (Dutch) and www.wikinieuws.be (Flemish), redirecting to nl.wikinews.org.
2) enable imports (see here)
Anything else that should be set
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
The wiki has been reopened with content imported from the Incubator.

I propose that we unlock [1] because I we have alot of contributor to it we have 1,221 articles for Dutch Wikinews in incubator I propose that we move all the articles into [2] please — The preceding unsigned comment was added by 95.215.63.86 (talk) 22:27, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Dutch Wikinews for the previous closure... though I don't mind if an unlock ofc. ;) Trijnsteltalk 23:07, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for launching

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Request from the Dutch Wikinews community, see here. --LIVE NIEUWS (talk) 14:36, 22 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@SPQRobin and MF-Warburg: I think they may be ready. StevenJ81 (talk) 21:31, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the Incubator version is becoming active. Dutch language wikis sure form a decent community, so there is a lot potential. --OosWesThoesBes (talk) 18:44, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]


The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.