Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Lingua Franca Nova 2

submitted	verification	final decision

	This proposal has been approved. The Board of Trustees and language committee have deemed that there is sufficient grounds and community to create the new language project. A committee member provided the following comment: phabricator:T183561 --MF-W 15:46, 22 December 2017 (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	lfn (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Lingua Franca Nova	Language name in English
Language name	Elefen	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	Q146803 - item has currently the following values: English label: Lingua Franca Nova native label (P1705): Lingua Franca Nova, lingua franca nova, elefen instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): constructed language / Wikimedia language code (P424): lfn writing system (P282): Latin script, Cyrillic script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098):	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	no indication	Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
Links		Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	lfn.wikipedia.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	Vicipedia	"Wikipedia" in your language
Project namespace	Vicipedia	usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace	Vicipedia Discute	"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.
Optional settings
Project logo	File:Wikipedia-logo-v2-lfn.png	This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone	UTC	"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.

Arguments in favour

Strong Support - --Katxis (talk) 09:03, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
As a fluent speaker who has published a translation of Alice in Wonderland and written a daily news blog in Elefen for over three years, I support this proposal. Sajmĉjo (talk) 14:47, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support - much activity! many editors! Basil dunwoody (talk) 21:05, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yocahuna (talk) 22:18, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Language name = elefen -- Muctesuar (talk) 14:51, 14 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support - Surely one of the finest constructed languages. Xabadiar (talk) 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Support. My point of criticism below is clearly being addressed. One-sentence stubs have been massively deleted or expanded. The random page option shows that the average page length is becoming better. Therefore, I no longer have any valid objections. --OosWesThoesBes (talk) 13:16, 27 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support It has an active community. TerranBoy (talk) 12:25, 17 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. As far as I am concerned, the only thing that really matters is whether a project is viable or not. I'd much rather have a well-functioning Wikipedia project in a language with no native speakers at all than a project in a language with millions of speakers that is still unable to become anything more than a small collection of oneliners. I believe LFN has already demonstrated that this project has the potential of becoming a bigger success than many of the already existing projects, so why not? IJzeren Jan (talk) 19:14, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

While I'm not in essence opposed to a Wikipedia LFN, I would like to see some more constructive edits. As it looks now, most activity is the creation of three sentence stubs, often with a single table. It would be way better if users concentrated on the creation of a few articles with substantial contents than on ten million practically empty pages. --OosWesThoesBes (talk) 09:29, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry but today I've been adding articles from the Wikia and I forgot there were stubs most of them. I will be deleting those ones and leaving the ones with more content. Most of our content is more than stubs and we've been working for more than six months on this project on a daily basis. Of course, there will be some stubs but most of our articles have more than three lines, templates and images so they are rather complete in my opinion. As I said, I will delete the smaller stubs and I will add content to the others. --Katxis (talk) 17:17, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - Sure, good. As I pointed out: it is a concern I have and I hope to retreat my criticism when there is improvement :) --OosWesThoesBes (talk) 17:40, 18 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Exactly how is another conlang constructive? This is what happens when someone edits Wikipedia to promote their English-based conlang. And, we all know about the story of Yaroslav, the Russian conlanger gone mad. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 17:10, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Your argument has no point. We are not the ones to blame for the attitude of other Wikipedian. --Katxis (talk) 07:40, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

General discussion

Question: There is a project at Wikia already (see wikia:lfn). Is that to be merged with this? Ignored? Why would you duplicate efforts? StevenJ81 (talk) 22:12, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- I belive the encyclopedic articles will be removed from the Elefen Wikia if the Elefen Wikipedia is accepted. --Angel Blaise (talk) 21:18, 18 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Localisation update

We translated the most important messages for the creation of the LFN Wikipedia. We will keep on adding content. --Katxis (talk) 10:10, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Settings

Please complete the settings in the table at the top of the page (project namespace etc.). We need it for filing the bug. --MF-W 18:11, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pinged one of the key contributors off wiki. StevenJ81 (talk) 18:34, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@MF-Warburg: seems done by Katxis. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:50, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It is. But while I've marked this as "approved" already, the fact is that I had forgotten to put a notification at Talk:Language committee. It's there now, but you probably shouldn't create a phabricator task until next Friday. StevenJ81 (talk) 13:23, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]