Requests for new languages/Wikiversity Afrikaans

submitted	verification	final decision

	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. This proposal is on hold**: There are two Afrikaans pages on Beta Wikiversity, and the last edits were over five years ago. Waiting to see if proposers here actually start creating content there. For LangCom: StevenJ81 (talk) 15:50, 8 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics). 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	af (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Afrikaans	Language name in English
Language name	Afrikaans	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	Q14196 - item has currently the following values: English label: Afrikaans native label (P1705): Afrikaans instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): natural language, modern language / Low Franconian Wikimedia language code (P424): af writing system (P282): Latin script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 7,200,000, 10,300,000	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	no indication	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	af.wikiversity.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name		"Wikiversity" in your language
Project namespace		usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace		"Wikiversity 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/Cape Town	"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

Afrikaans have 15-23 million speakers (Over 7 million native), it's one of the official languages of South Africa, there are thousands of researches we wanna publish! There are four existing Afrikaans Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks and Wikiquote, plus we have Wikinews test at incubator:Wn/af, Wikisource test at s:mul:Main Page/Afrikaans, so why not giving a chance to start Wikiversity in this languages too? --2409:8902:9321:C221:ACAA:7B50:7FE0:A2FC 02:00, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]