Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Veps

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See the second proposal, which was approved.

Veps Wikipedia[edit]

submitted verification final decision
This proposal has been rejected.
This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy based on the discussion on this page.

The closing committee member provided the following comment:

this project is not proposed/supported by anyone who has a working knowledge of this language. —GerardM 07:57, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Proposal summary
  • Language details: Veps (Vepsän kel, vep ISO 639-3)
  • Editing community: Budelberger (P)
    List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your
    name if you are a native speaker of this language.
  • Relevant pages: development wiki project
  • External links:
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Among the twelve major Finno-Ugric languages, nine have their Wikipedia (number of articles in brackets) – Finnish (187,000), Hungarian (112,000), Estonian (57,000), Sami (2,700), Võro (1,900), Komi (990), Erzya (632), Udmurt (370), Moksha (292) –, three are on the Incubator – Eastern Mari (900), Karelian (130), Veps (49). Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian are very active ; the others… ; Mari : about a half are articles about the calendar (dates)… articles of those small languages are mainly substubs.

Arguments in favour[edit]

  • None. Nobody is interested. Every living language must have its Wikipedia, but without native speakers ? But… :

Arguments against[edit]

Other discussion[edit]

It should not be so strict and quick decision. Veps language is vital and (surprisingly) has a big internet community with real specialists-linguists and even writers and poets - native veps speakers. Now I'm trying to involve them in this project and there is some sucess. So it is not a dead proposal - when the betawiki translation is nearly completed and the incubator project is OK I will make a new proposal. Sura 23:47, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]