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.
Check that the project does not already exist (see list).
Ensure the requested language is sufficiently unique that it could not exist on a more general wiki.
Ensure that there are a sufficient number of native editors of that language to merit an edition in that language.
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.
instance/subclass (P31/P279) = language, creole language, natural language, endangered language, modern language / Portuguese-based creole languages
Wikimedia language code (P424) =
writing system (P282) =
number of speakers (P1098) = 50
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.
Community
You can optionally list your user name if you are an active contributor to the test wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language.
Links
Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
"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
135x135 PNG derivative from a decent SVG image (instructions)
Default project timezone
Asia/Macao
"Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces
For example for a Wikisource which would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk"
Patuá is a language derived mainly from Malay, Sinhalese, Cantonese, and Portuguese, which was originally spoken by the Macanese community of the Portuguese colony of Macao.Although it is now spoken by only a few people in Macao or in the Macanese diaspora and is dedicated to endangered languages, it has the attraction of its history and diversity. Macanese is actively spoken by just several dozen old people, mostly women in their eighties or nineties, in Macau and Hong Kong. Also, Patuá is a stable natural language which has its own sentence structure different from Portuguese. Nowadays, it is called the sweet language in Macao and Macao government started protecting the language and taking further action to promote it thus more local people has been learning and speaking this language. --Marco Choi 04 (talk) 05:37, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
Do you speak Macanese, @Marco Choi 04:? The test wiki contains no articles yet, and the Main Page contains only text in Portuguese. Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 16:47, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
