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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).
  • Obtain an ISO 639 code
  • 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.
  • 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 mg (SIL, Glottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Malagasy Language name in English
Language name malagasy 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 Q7930 - item has currently the following values:
 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)?
Links Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL mg.wikiquote.org langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name "Wikiquote" in your language
Project namespace usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace "Wikiquote 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 File:... 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
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.

Proposal

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Please, We are requesting a new Wikimedia project: **Wikiquote in Malagasy (mg)**.

Malagasy is the national and most widely spoken language of Madagascar, with over 25 million speakers. It has a strong presence in Wikimedia through Malagasy Wikipedia (https://mg.wikipedia.org), and we believe that the Malagasy-speaking community is now ready to expand to Wikiquote.

This project is being launched as part of the **#SheSaid Campaign 2025**, which aims to highlight quotes from notable women and improve the gender balance of content in Wikiquote. This initiative has already inspired the creation of pages in the Wikimedia Incubator under the prefix `Wq/mg/`.

We currently have:

  • A small but growing community of contributors
  • A commitment to translate the interface on Translatewiki.net
  • Community interest in growing Malagasy language representation across Wikimedia

We are inviting Malagasy speakers to contribute to this project and build up content in the Incubator, and we are actively developing quote pages for notable Malagasy and international figures.

We kindly request approval to begin the Wikiquote Malagasy project as an official Wikimedia project.

Thank you!

— Raveloaritiana Mamisoa (talk) 17:59, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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