Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Pothwari
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| submitted | verification | final decision |
| Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Votes will be ignored when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them (see the Language proposal policy).
The language committee needs to verify the language is eligible to be approved. |
- 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 | phr (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Pothwari | Language name in English |
| Language name | پوٹھواری | 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 | Q33739 - 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 | RTL | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Site URL | phr.wikipedia.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
| Settings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project name | پوٹھواری | "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 | 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 | This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation). | |
| Default project timezone | Continent/City | "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]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahari-Pothwari
Discussion[edit]
When Pothwari language page will be active?
- Comment: Punjabi lacks a true "standard" dialect, and everybody who speaks it could be said to speak a distinctive regional variety, or more often, a mix of dialects. Any of the contributions on the Pothohari incubator would be entirely welcome on pnb.wikipedia.org and read by a wider audience. I do not think creating a separate wiki is a good idea as on Western Punjabi Wikipedia given that for years there have only been two active contributors. That is for a site that represents the 10th most spoken language in the world, and most spoken language in Pakistan—any new contributions at all are very much needed and it would be more fruitful if efforts were made to improve it rather than make a split it into smaller parts.
- Writing articles on pnb.wikipedia in Pothohari sounds like a great idea on the other hand and if absolutely necessary some additional measures to accomodate that could be easily made. On English Wikipedia, editors can use a template to indicate that they have written an article in a particular English dialect (such as American English or Pakistani English) so that other contributors can maintain the article in a consistent style. The same could be done on Punjabi Wikipedia, and extended to any dialect (not just Pothohari), while still being accessible to the many potential readers and writers who use a mix of dialects or are not concerned with these distinctions. --عُثمان (talk) 18:32, 23 March 2023 (UTC)