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A committee member provided the following comment:
Eligible language. You are encouraged to contribute on incubator:Wn/ml. --Millosh (talk) 16:53, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
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 / Dravidian languages
Wikimedia language code (P424) = ml
writing system (P282) = Malayalam script
number of speakers (P1098) = 30,000,000±5,000,000
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Strong support because there are enough native editors and they are willing to commit and help improve Wikinews Malayalam once the projects stands firm. --Rovine
Oppose. I strongly believe that the Malayalam Wikinews will not have a strong and permanent editor base as enjoyed by the Malayalam Wikipedia. Wikinews is a project which requires constant update and new articles should be reviewed and published immediately, which in fact requires a large no. of editors. There is no proof that it will be able to overcome the hurdles faced by the English Wikinews. Please take a look at an article published in the Wikipedia Signposthere. - Jayadevp13 (talk) 05:48, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
