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Request for approval of Wt/pcm, Naija Pidgin Wiktionary

Hello language committee i would like to request that you approve pcm.wiktionary.org just as it sister was approved at pcm.wikipedia.org. Pcm.Wiktionary.org has been here for over 15 years Wmbata (talk) 11:27, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

It does not fulfill the activity requirements. --MF-W 20:49, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Requesting for Wali Wikipedia, Wp/wlx Approval

We have been requesting for the approval Wali Wikipedia which has been requested here since 11-Nov-2024. We have been active since that time till now, check our activity here. We submitted languages our language experts severally to admins on the language committee. Please let us know what we should do now for the approval process. @Jon Harald Søby, @Amire80 and @others Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 21:03, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Wali Language now has a standard autography proposed by the Wali language committee, the language is wealth approving. Vision L1 (talk) 06:44, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

This is second time out of our last two requests and no response from the languages committee.

I think we also deserve the right to have the language Wikipedia approved.

If we don’t get approval or response, it would force us to think there is no use to discuss issues here. Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 00:12, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Request to approve Tumbuka Wiktionary (tum.wiktionary.org)

Greetings Language Committee, I am requesting for the approval of Tumbuka Wiktionary. I am one of the native contributors on the project. The request was made here almost 3 years ago, with nothing happening to it. The language is spoken in three countries, used in national media such as television, e-hail websites and regular websites, radio and newspapers, etc., and it was added on Google Translate in 2024. Moreover, there is a willing community that is ready to contribute to the project. The language also has its own Wikipedia with active solid community. The other challenge is that most natives do not know how to edit the wiki while still in incubator. So, if the wiki is approved and created, it will attract more natives. It will also act as a must-go-to when one stumbles a difficult word in its sister project (Wikipedia) to look it up. In incubator, the page is here.

Again, not important to this request but worth a mention, I and other interested native speakers, including those interested in our languages, are on our way to create a recognized Wikimedia Community User Group for our Wikimedia projects, see. Currently, we are busy spreading awareness in our countries about Wikipedia in our local languages (as well as enwiki) which includes this Wiktionary that we are requesting to be approved. Once approved, we would have alot of newbies to edit there, thereby giving free knowledge.

Thanks.--- Tumbuka Arch (talk) 11:03, 9 August 2026 (UTC)

It does not fulfill the activity requirements. --MF-W 20:48, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Requesting approval of Nias Wikibooks

Dear Language committee,

We renew our approval request for Nias Wikibooks. We first sent our request a few years back, but was deemed not enough. Considering how critical the Wikibooks as the first learning step for users before writing on Wikipedia, which is in this regard a unique context for Nias, here we submit again our request for approval.

Best regards,

Slaia (talk) 08:56, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

I had a look at 10 random pages from Nias Wikibooks, of which only 2 were not a Bible chapter. Can you explain how Nias Wikibooks is helping users to write in Wikipedia? And why doesn't Wikipedia itself host pages about how to edit it? --MF-W 14:01, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the response. I am sorry if I am not good enough in explaining the rationale in the proposal.

First of all Nias language is mainly an oral language. There is no written text (except the bible as explained below), no magazines, no radio or tv programs in this language. To make matter worse, the country Indonesia makes it obligatory to use only the national language in education, institution, ceremonies. The result: majority of young generation don't actually know how to write (and to speak) in Nias language. Even academics have difficulty to write properly in the language. They need to exercise a lot, before writing good enough in Nias language. Writing directly on Wikipedia, with a lot of technical terms (science, biology, history, etc.) even more challenging. In Wikibooks they can write more freely and about topics that would not fit on Wikipedia (explaining the meaning of certain proverbs which are very popular among Niassan for example). And when the time comes they write on Wikipedia.

Why so many bible texts? Five years ago we started with the bible texts, because they are the only written text we have and function as the basis of vocabulary and sentence building/examples. There are 1,185+ pages of them and therefore they pop up often in the random page search. What many Niassan do when they look for a word and the example how that word is used in a sentence, is, they start with that word in Indonesian. Look up that word in a Indonesian bible text, open the corresponding Nias bible text to find what that word is in Nias language and how it is written in context. People are so educated in Indonesian that they forgot even the basic words in Nias!

Four years ago we finished with the bible text on the Wikibooks and then we continued with other topics. Recently for example we concentrated on writing stories for children, as the early gateway to Nias language. One cannot find them through random pages, because there are only around 70 pages at the moment. Last year we were writing about some historical places in Nias.

Thank you again for looking into this. I apologise if my English is not well written. Slaia (talk) 07:48, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

Request for Publication of the Maayat’aan Wikipedia (Wp/yua)

Dear Language Committee, I am an active leader of the Maayat’aan Wikipedia (YUA). Since 2015, the Wikipedia has been in the incubator, and in March 2025, we formed a permanent group of editors. Each month, we have met the required criteria (100% interface, 30% glossary; at least 10 people, 10 edits per month for 6 months through August), and in December 2025, we secured an agreement between the Yucatan State Government’s Ministry of Education and Wikimedia Mexico, which has supported us since 2016, enabling significant progress and the steady growth of our community.

Currently, 120 of us meet every two months to work on localizing the interface, and every month a group of approximately 20 users meets to create new articles, format existing ones, or edit older articles. We have participated in the Digital Activism Meetings organized by Rising Voices and in the Meeting of Indigenous Communities in Wikimedia projects in Colombia, where we presented our progress.

It is worth noting that, in Mexico, there are approximately 774,755 speakers of the Maya language (Maayat’aan) aged three and older, according to the INEGI Population and Housing Census. It is the second most widely spoken indigenous language in the entire country.

That is why we hope to graduate from the incubator, ideally in October, as this is an important date for our Maya community—it marks the 62nd anniversary of Indigenous Education in Mexico. As we mentioned earlier, we have a strong editorial team that can ensure the continuity of the entire process after we graduate from the incubator, and we know that once this happens, more people will participate in editing.

This community is made up primarily of teachers, and by August 2026, there will be a total of 585,698 elementary and middle school students who will use the Maya-language Wikipedia in the state of Yucatán alone, which will strengthen our language and reduce the digital divide among the Maya people.

Finally, Wikimedia Mexico has committed to continuing to support us in this process. CodigoMayaOficial (talk) 23:01, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

Request for Approval for Sasak Wiktionary

Hi, I would like to request for review and approval for Sasak Wiktionary. It have been progressed since last request, and currently have reached 1261 entries. If this is approved, then this project will be the first Sasak Wikimedia project, which become a huge milestone for the community to introduce the projects (including Wikipedia) to the masses easier. Thank you! OwlyKnight (talk) 17:12, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Following up on Hiligaynon Wiki

Hello, Language Committee. I would like to inquire on the status of the request for Hiligaynon Wikipedia. Thank you! Soy20 (talk) 07:23, 4 September 2026 (UTC)