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Notifications from Langcom about proposed approvals

Rakhine Wikipedia

The Language Committee intends to approve Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Rakhine. If you have any objections to that based on the Language Proposal Policy, please tell us here on this page in the next 7 days. Meanwhile, the community is asked to check (and if necessary, complete) the wiki settings as indicated on the request page. --MF-W 19:46, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

For the record: Still trying to obtain verification of the content. --MF-W 18:19, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

...but it is going on! --MF-W 09:29, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Any update? --ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 06:14, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

@MF-Warburg, Is there anything I can help for this? Ninja✮Strikers ^«☎» 12:42, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I've sent you an email. -- MF-W 15:42, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I would like to know why this wiki(wp/rki) is taking so long to approve. I have already prepared the requests. I am currently helping as a second time test admin in wp/rki. If there are any needs, please feel free to let me know.@MF-Warburg @Joseph @Ninjastrikers YaThaWinTha (talk) 10:10, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

YaThaWinTha: I am sending you an email. --MF-W 10:51, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

I am noting here that the issues are planned to be resolved in January or February. --MF-W 15:12, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Nupe Wikipedia

The Language Committee intends to approve Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Nupe. If you have any objections to that based on the Language Proposal Policy, please tell us here on this page in the next 7 days. Meanwhile, the community is asked to check (and if necessary, complete) the wiki settings as indicated on the request page. --Sotiale (talk) 14:56, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

@787IYO: I would like to ask you to check whether all the settings on the above proposal page are appropriate. Project namespace and Project talk namespace are empty now. --Sotiale (talk) 04:37, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Also "west Africa" is not a valid timezone. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 05:14, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Also I have set our timezone which is GMT +1.787IYO (talk) 20:37, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

That's still not the right format (it should be a country/location pair listed in w:List_of_tz_database_time_zones. I'm just going to assume you want w:List of tz database time zones#LAGOS. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 23:20, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

I have checked and have made the necessary inputs to the settings. 787IYO (talk) 20:36, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Still doesn't look quite right. "Project talk namespace" should normally be some constant prefix or suffix applied to the project namespace, but here "Fere Egan" has nothing to do with "Wikipedia". Them differing is technically possible, but it is weird. (Also you haven't set a logo, but that's fine - it will just default to the logo for the English Wikipedia). * Pppery * _{it has begun} 23:24, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Good day, I have done as requested, please check and see if there is any more information needed. Regards 787IYO (talk) 10:19, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Discussions

Hiligaynon Wikisource

Dear Language Committee, the Hiligaynon Wikisource project has been active for 8 months. We would like to request to review the project for its final approval. The activity started in July 2024 and if approved, this would be the first Wikimedia project in the 4th most spoken native language in the Philippines. Thanks. --Filipinayzd (talk) 14:03, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Request for Approval of Maithili Wiktionary

I would like to bring to your attention that the Maithili Wiktionary meets the criteria for approval as per the Wikimedia Language Committee’s guidelines. The project has sustained activity, meets localization requirements, and serves a significant linguistic community.

Since the project is still awaiting approval, I kindly request the committee to consider its approval at the earliest. Your support in this regard will be highly appreciated by the Maithili-speaking community.

Looking forward to your response. DevGeekStar (talk) 09:27, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Beta Wikiversity: Challenges we face incubating on a dead platform

Dear Langcom, since last year, I have been trying to add our main page to the main template to connect with the Main Page. Unfortunately, it is still not displaying. My first request was made last year, and three months later, User:Liuxinyu970226 had to ping all administrators and bureaucrats. The request was addressed, but it still didn’t display. After checking, I realized a few more lines were needed, but no one responded afterward. I also request that admins, sysops, and others be selected and nominated from the currently incubating communities (even for shorter terms such as 3 months, 6 months, or 12 months) who can support each other. This platform should not be used solely for hat collection purposes. --(talk) 11:29, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Langcom is not responsible for administrating the wikis where projects are incubated, but if local administrators don't respond (and indeed only two have been active this year, you can ask global sysops or stewards for help, or run as an administrator yourself. --MF-W 10:50, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion and guidance. Just for the record, I have taken the following steps in hopes that this will eventually help the platform function better. I have earlier re-listed the request, started a discussion Custodians and general maintenance, later, applied for Custodianship, and reported an issue on Meta. -- (talk) 22:36, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Campidanese Sardinian elligibility

Dear LangCom, I'd like to propose a reevaluation of Campidanese Sardinian, specifically Wp/sro, elligibility status, basing myself on the third requisite for elligibility, under the Language proposal policy: «The language must be sufficiently unique that it could not coexist on a more general wiki. In most cases, this excludes regional dialects and different written forms of the same language.». In this case, I argue that, since a Sardinian Wikipedia exists, and Sardinian is considered (at least taking into account SIL's ISO 639-3) a macrolanguage, a more general wiki already exists and is capable of accomodating Campidanese (check this for instance). — Garcez (talk) 14:16, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Pinging some people that might be interested: @Liuxinyu970226, @L2212, @Ooswesthoesbes — Garcez (talk) 14:19, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

I'm not a member of the Langcom, so I have no influence over this. Instead, I'll ping User:MF-Warburg, a more active member who can put it forth on the mailing list. --OosWesThoesBes (talk) 14:23, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the ping, I also support the reevaluation for the reasons that were also explained on previous discussions on the matter (here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). In short yes, Campidanese, Nugorese and Logudorese are just different orthographies of the same language, often used alongside others like LSC for one or more of the many dialects of Sardinian. The Sardinian Wikipedia already has rules and templates to use all of these orthographies, and the people that use the Campidanese one write there. The Campidanese incubator is populated by a single editor that does not even speak the language, and is creating hundreds of copy-pasted articles (with empty sections, few informations and many, many orthographic errors) to transform Sardinian into a "constellation of wikis". Before the arrival of that user, the incubator had exactly 0 articles for years. There is no need to have separate wikis for different orthographies, and that would instead just damage the sc.wiki project. L2212 (talk) 19:58, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Agree with L2212, the eligibility of Campidanese, a dialect of Sardinian should be consider to revoked, as well as Votic. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 02:37, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Requesting for the approval of Wali Wikipedia test project

Hello, We humbly request languages Committee to approve Wali Wikipedia test project. This test wiki has been active for past 6 months. We have translated all MediaWiki important messages on translatewiki. Hoping to hear from you. Meanwhile have a look at our statistics automated statistics recent changes Thank you so much. Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 06:12, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Support

We all wish to see this wiki approved. Thank you Zakaria Tunsung for this request. Umar Asiya (talk) 11:41, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Madurese wikisource

I keep asking this multiple times. Do you mind to tell me what's the problem so we can adress to work on the hatching. it's been more three monts Agus Damanik (talk) 03:09, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

@Liuxinyu970226 Agus Damanik (talk) 10:58, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Why ping me? Anyway it looks like @Sotiale: proposed approval of mad.wikisource as per [1], you may instead ask that member on the approval process. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 11:30, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Just think that you are quite active responding. Sorry if i annoy you. Thank you for the mailing list. I don't know if it exist. Once again, sorry to ping you Agus Damanik (talk) 05:46, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

@Sotiale is there any thing that we need to improve, cause i see that tagalog wikisource is approved recently. Thank you Agus Damanik (talk) 05:49, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

I started a discussion about approval because I thought your project met the requirements for approval at the time I initiated that thread. However, none of my colleagues responded. The only advice I can give you is to increase the number of pages from the current number and to keep active. I will send a reminder email to start the discussion again. --Sotiale (talk) 08:42, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

got it Agus Damanik (talk) 09:13, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Bengali Wikinews

Hello, I am an active editor of Bengali Wikinews. The Bengali Wikinews is a highly active test project, and I am requesting its approval. Mobashir - 🇧🇩 (talk) 05:43, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

Request for Apporval of Minangkabau Wikibooks

Hello Language Committee, the Minangkabau Wikibooks project has been active for 6 months and the community would like the project to be approved. The request for the approval has been made here. Thanks Zhilal Darma (talk) 08:41, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

I am feeling very positive, but I need some time to review some factors, and I am busy right now. I plan to try to review it this weekend if possible. --Sotiale (talk) 08:46, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

I understand, thanks for response. Zhilal Darma (talk) 10:11, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Request for Approval of Betawi Wiktionary

Hello Language Committe, the Betawi Wiktionary project has been active for 5 months and the community would like the project to be approved. The request for the approval has been made here. Thank you from us Pitchrigi, Bangrapip, and me. NikolasKHF (talk) 11:02, 23 March 2025 (UTC)