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This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.
Wikilanguage
Status of the proposal
Statusrejected
Reasonno support. Pecopteris (talk) 05:29, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Details of the proposal
Project descriptionIt would be a place to document (and preserve) the earth's languages. Let's set French as an example. The page (and subpages) would document all of the grammar rules and detailed descriptions of the language's use in a standardized, organized way, and maybe link to Wiktionary since it already documents much of French's lexicon (but Wiktionary lacks the definitions of many languages with a small number of speakers). Wikibooks could work for this type of project, although that seems better for reader-friendly descriptions and lessons, and Wikilanguage would be more of a database or record.
Is it a multilingual wiki?It would be best if there was multiple language versions, but only parts of the pages would need translating. Edits to the database should sync to all of the language versions of Wikilanguage, while descriptions should be manually translated.
Potential number of languagesOne language per wiki. (not including the languages documented)
Proposed URLen.wikilanguage.org (for the English edition)
Technical requirements
New features to requireIf the project requires any new features that the MediaWiki software currently doesn't have, please describe in detail. Are additional MediaWiki extensions needed for the project?
Development wikiincubator.wikimedia.org (possibly)

Proposal

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Discussion

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I have searched Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and various other websites. They do have descriptions about the earth's languages, including history, basic grammar, and common phrases. Wikibooks even has lessons. But I have a new idea that I'm very enthusiastic about, and that I couldn't find anywhere on the Internet. Imagine a database that documents languages in their entirety. This will allow the construction of reader-friendly language learning resources for other projects, and it will allow language preservation and documentation for endangered or extinct languages.

In short, Wikilanguage intends to be an extensive language record and database.

Whether this info could be suited for Wikibooks is uncertain, although Wikilanguage is intended to be more of a documentation than a language learning resource (well, it could, but it wouldn't be formatted like a book).

--Sir Beluga (talk) 01:19, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Sir Beluga: A similar proposal here was imported to v:en:Portal:Wikilang. —Justin (koavf)TCM 01:44, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, thanks. I do notice that the pages in v:en:Portal:Wikilang don't cite sources in any of the pages that I have seen, which makes me uncertain about the reliability of the content. Is it possible to add references to specific pieces of information there, much like how citing sources works on Wikipedia? --Sir Beluga (talk) 02:08, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wikiversity allows for citations and you can make them in the same way as at Wikipedia but it also allows for original research, which Wikipedia does not. —Justin (koavf)TCM 09:56, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]