Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Lakota
| 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 will verify the test project content with a reliable neutral source, such as a professor or expert. 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.A committee member provided the following comment: Please contribute to this test project on Incubator. For LangCom: StevenJ81 (talk) 16:37, 2 April 2018 (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.
- 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 | lkt (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Lakota | Language name in English |
| Language name | Lakȟótiyapi | 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 | Q33537 - 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 | LTR | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Links | Lakota Language Consortium, Lakota Language learning forum, Vocabulary, example of language initiative (Thunder Valley CDC ) | Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents. |
| Site URL | lkt.wikipedia.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
| Settings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project name | Wikipedia | "Wikipedia" in your language |
| Project namespace | usually the same as the project name | |
| Project talk namespace | "Wikipedia 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 | This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation). | |
| Default project timezone | "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 | |
Proposal
[edit]A living language with more than 6.000 native speakers. It's active now. Thx,--U.Steele 16:31, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]Arguments in favour
[edit]- Per requst.--U.Steele 10:52, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
- Support --Jugydmort 18:59, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- Support -- See comments below Codex Sinaiticus 13:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- Support Bodhdharma (talk) 08:02, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
- Support Necromonger Wekeepwhatwekill 18:44, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
- Support-MacRusgail (talk) 22:58, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
- Support Lakota language must have a Wikipedia project. There are a Standard spelling and an alphabet to write it. --Sarvaturi (talk) 15:54, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
- Support --PastelKos (talk) 14:27, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
- Support There are enough native speakers to validate a Lakota language Wikipedia, provided enough editors can commit to creating articles. Q-for-Qoala (talk) 19:28, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
Arguments against
[edit]Other discussion
[edit]- I have no objection, but would like to point out that the Mi'kmaq language of Eastern Canada has far more native speakers, has finally won some level of governmental recognition, and yet no wikipedia to help keep their knowledge alive. When are they going to get one? Codex Sinaiticus 19:10, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, I see one has just started up now! http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mic/Pisgw%C3%A1 Very nice! Welaalin, Codex Sinaiticus 13:17, 1 February 2012 (UTC)