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:
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.
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.
"Wikipedia talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
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N'Ko language is one of the most spoken language in West Africa by Manding people with different naming as Malinke in Guinea, Bambara in Mali and Jula in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. It is being taught in schools particularly in Upper Guinea region and in some region of Mali. Last year, Guinea government adopted N'ko writing system as the literacy alphabet. Also taught in higher education like Koffi Annan University language department in Guinea and in some foreign universities like Harvard African Languages Department, İNALCO in France. Recently we have formed a Wikimedia projects user group through social media which is willingly ready to contribute editing the most reliable contents in N'Ko Wikipedia incubator. We are requesting the committee to create our domain name in order to keep motivating the community. N'Ko is the literacy language for Manding people.
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wp/nqo/%DF%93%DF%8F%DF%AC%DF%9F%DF%8F%DF%B2%DF%AC%DF%98%DF%8A&redirectfrom=infopage&setlang=nqo
Question: Are languages that have second language only status allowed Wikimedia projects since Pali has is own Wikimedia project? --47.156.0.180 23:37, 20 February 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
See the English Wikipedia article. It is a modern standardized koiné, comparable to Modern Standard Arabic, not to Pali. It's used for publishing books and newspapers, and for teaching literacy in schools, so it makes a lot of sense to have a Wikipedia in it. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:57, 12 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, I recommend to approve this. The activity is good, and it was approved by an expert. No-one in the Language Committee objected. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:57, 12 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Amire80: I sent you a private email message to obtain some clarification. Thanks. Axel xadolik (talk) 16:10, 12 August 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
