Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Laki

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laki Wiktionary[edit]

submitted verification final decision

This language has been verified as eligible.
The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page.

Once the criteria are met, the language committee can proceed with the approval.

If you think the criteria are met, but the project is still waiting for approval, feel free to notify the committee and ask them to consider its approval.

A committee member provided the following comment:

Please contribute to the test project. StevenJ81 (talk) 15:28, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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 lki (SILGlottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name laki Language name in English
Language name له کی 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 Q56483 - 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 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.

Settings
Project name ویکی فەرهەنگ "Wiktionary" in your language
Project namespace ویکی فەرهەنگ usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace "Wiktionary talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads yes 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 Asia/tehran "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
submit Phabricator task. It will include everything automatically, except additional namespaces/settings. After creating the task, add a link to the comment.

Arguments in favour[edit]

  • Support:the luri language has six main branches such as laki,bakhtiari,mamsani,kumzari,feyli,kohgiluyeh,buyerahmadi.laki is the language of history of the lur people that is speaking in the lur people land of iran and Iraq.
  • Support:we intrested in to create a dictionary for lak people --Hosseinblue (talk) 08:17, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support There's an active enthusiastic community contributing to the Laki Wiki projects. TerranBoy (talk) 04:32, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against[edit]

  • Oppose: The name of this dialect is not Luri Laki. It's a dialect of sourthern Kurdish (here the article on Wikipedia) That means the user is a not a native speaker of Laki but a Lur. There is this disscussion even on Wikipiedia. Some Lur people want to impose their theories about Laks and Laki dialect. I don't believe that, it'll be useful to create this wiktionary without presence of some Lak users.--Gomada (talk) 22:13, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: Laki is a dialects of southern Kurdish not Luri. (here the article on Wikipedia) That means the user is a not a native speaker of Laki but a Lur. Some Lur people want to impose their theories about Laks and Kurds. 18:05,Sunday - 2020 19 July (UTC)

Other discussion[edit]