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.
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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.
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4th largest language by number of native speakers.
War fought for this language.
National Language of Bangladesh and language of the state of West Bengal, India.
Support There are many quotes in Bengali literature. Vibhijain 10:30, 20 May 2011 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Agree Bengali has thousand years old history. Since 15th century this language are being using by authors in literature. 1st Nobel prize winner of Asia is Rabindranath Tagor, whose literature medium is this Language.--Aashaa (talk) 11:47, 12 March 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Strong support - notable literary tradition.-MacRusgail (talk) 16:30, 14 December 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Strong Support many quotes in Bengali literature. so it's need for Bengali community. --Kayser Ahmad (talk) 10:30, 4 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Strong Support The quotation resources are much more enriched in Bengali language. So giving strongly requirement support. --Sharif uddin (talk) 10:15, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Strong Support There are many active users in Bengali Wikipedia and resources for quote in Bengali language are huge. So, the project most likely will be successful.--SajidRezaKarim 17:03, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
FYI Localisation is a precondition to final approval. Given that only 72% of the most important messages have been localised at this time, it falls short from what is expected of second projects for a language. Expected is localisation for all MediaWiki messages and all the extensions used in the WMF. GerardM 12:28, 5 January 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Great progress can be observed with 100.00% 95.07% 78.62% for the relevant statistics :) Thanks, GerardM 07:03, 4 April 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Currently 76.34% of the MediaWiki messages and 55.91% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:46, 12 November 2008 (UTC)Reply[reply]
