Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Fon
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This proposal has been approved. The language committee has deemed that there is sufficient grounds and community to create the new language project. A committee member provided the following comment: Approved by the language committee, awaiting creation: phab:T347935. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 08:13, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
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- 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 |
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| Language code | fon (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Fon | Language name in English |
| Language name | fon | 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 | Q33291 - item has currently the following values:
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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 | LTR | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Site URL | fon.wikipedia.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
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| Project name | Wikipedya | "Wikipedia" in your language |
| Project namespace | Wikipedya | usually the same as the project name |
| Project talk namespace | Wikipedya xogbasà | "Wikipedia 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. |
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| Project logo | File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-fon.svg | This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation). |
| Default project timezone | Africa/Porto Novo | "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 | 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. | ||
Proposal
[edit]Fon is a language spoken by more than 4 million people in Bénin. Some groups of people in Togo and in Nigeria also spoken Fon.
Having Wikipedia in Fon will help spread the knowleadge and also have people share knowledge.
--Mah3110 (talk) 21:04, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]- Support This language has approximately 1,700,000 native speakers. There is likely to be enough contributors to keep the project active. Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 13:46, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support Wikipedia needs a lot more representation in African languages. Also Fon is a robust language, taught in schools and vibrant. So I fully and strongly support the proposal to establish Fon Wikipedia. NikosLikomitros (talk) 00:45, 29 September 2023 (UTC)