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.
instance/subclass (P31/P279) = language / Low Franconian languages
Wikimedia language code (P424) = nl
writing system (P282) = Latin script
number of speakers (P1098) = 24,000,000
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.
Community
You can optionally list your user name if you are an active contributor to the test wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language.
Links
Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
"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.
135x135 PNG derivative from a decent SVG image (instructions)
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 for a Wikisource which would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index 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)
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.
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)
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)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
