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)[reply]

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: English label: Lakota native label (P1705): Lakȟótiyapi instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): language, natural language, modern language / Sioux Wikimedia language code (P424): lkt writing system (P282): Latin script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 2,000	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.
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
submit Phabricator task. It will include everything automatically, except additional namespaces/settings. After creating the task, add a link to the comment.

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)[reply]

Per requst.--U.Steele 10:52, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jugydmort 18:59, 18 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- See comments below Codex Sinaiticus 13:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bodhdharma (talk) 08:02, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Necromonger Wekeepwhatwekill 18:44, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support-MacRusgail (talk) 22:58, 11 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support --PastelKos (talk) 14:27, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]

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)[reply]