Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Waale
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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 |
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| Proposal | ||
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| Language code | wlx (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Wali | Language name in English |
| Language name | Waale | 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 | Q36895 - 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 | LTR | Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)? |
| Site URL | wlx.wikipedia.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
| Settings | ||
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| Project name | Wikipiideɛ | "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 | Africa/Accra | "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]Number of Speakers: 200,672 as at 2021[1]
Spoken in: Upper West Region of Ghana Related languages: Dagaare, Dagbani, Mampurisi, Frafra.
Waale (Wali, Waalii) is a Gur or Mabia language of Ghana that is spoken widely in and nearby towns of Wa which is the capital town, Upper West Region, Ghana. It is also spoken in almost all the towns and villages from Hamile stretch to Damango in the Savanna Region of Ghana. There is also a bit of Waale spoken words in the related languages listed above. There are a lot of books written in Waale language including dictionaries and scriptures like the Bible and Quran. Waale is initially taught along side with Dagaare in the basic schools in the Upper West Region of Ghana and the University of Education, (Ajumako Campus) School of Languages. There is a large internet community in Ghana and this would make this Wikipedia grow.
Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 12:30, 28 July 2024 (UTC)