Requests for new languages/Wikinews Georgian

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Request for a new language edition: Wikinews Georgian

submitted verification final decision This language has been verified as eligible. The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Once the criteria are met, the language committee can proceed with the approval and notify the Board of Trustees for a possible veto. If you think the criteria are met, but the project is still waiting for approval, feel free to notify the committee and ask them to consider its approval.

• 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	ka (SIL, Ethnologue)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Georgian	Language name in English
Language name	ქართული	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	Q8108 - item has currently the following values: en label = Georgian native label (P1705) = ქართული ენა, ქართული‎ (Kartuli), ქართული ენა‎ (Kartuli ena) instance/subclass (P31/P279) = language, literary language, modern language / Kartvelian languages Wikimedia language code (P424) = ka writing system (P282) = Georgian scripts, Georgian Braille number of speakers (P1098) = 3,700,000	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	თეკა (NP), David1010 (N) 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.
Site URL	ka.wikinews.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name		"Wikinews" in your language
Project namespace		usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace		"Wikinews 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	File:...	135x135 PNG derivative from a decent SVG image (instructions)
Default project timezone	Asia/Tbilisi	"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		Anything else that should be set
submit phabricator task (includes everything automatically, except additional namespaces/settings)

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Proposal

• Location spoken: Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Russia

The Georgian language is one of the oldest languages of the Caucasus. It is spoken by the first Caucasian aborigines. Even Strabo, Herodotus, Xenophon, describing Colchis, drew attention to the fact that the tribes who lived in that time already had its own language and script.

The Georgian alphabet is traditionally said to have been invented in the 5th century BC and reformed by King Parnavaz I of Iberia in 284 BC. The oldest written monument extant - it's Martyrdom of the Holy Queen Shushanik, written by Jacob Tsurtaveli. Although the product indicates that Shushanik read the Psalms in the Georgian language (this means that the Georgian language in written and has been widely distributed in Georgia).

In the Middle Ages, the Georgian language was at the highest level, it was written by Shota Rustaveli's poem "The Knight in Panther's Skin".--Temuri 14:06, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

If you want support Georgian Wikinews past {{yes}}'''Support''' -~~~~

Discussion

• Naturally Support'Support'. One of the most ancient & beautiful languages, which has it's own unrepeatable writing.--George Mel 14:12, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
• Support'Support' -სანდრო ს 12:59, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
• Support'Strong Support'. The language which has one of the oldest writing ბრუტ 10:30, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
• Support'Support' --Jaba1977 09:20, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
• Support'Strong Support' --David1010 20:30, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
• Support--Reality006 23:05, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support'Strong Support' -Dacxiri 22:00, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
• Support'Support' per above--Andrijko Z. 16:31, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
• Support Support --Cekli829 07:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
• Support --Mehman 97 21:01, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
• Support --ჯეო (talk) 14:06, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Localisation update

• Currently 64.60% of the MediaWiki messages and 9.49% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks,
• Currently 98.73% and 39.55% :) Thanks, GerardM 14:15, 24 December 2009 (UTC)