Wikipedia Simple French<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_French…>: This request proposes to create the Simple French Wikipedia using français fondamental, which LangCom has explicitly cited as an example of a simple Wikipedia that would be allowable under current rules. At the same time, current rules wouldn't allow a simple French project on Incubator; instead, the preference would be to incubate that within French Wikipedia. (If nothing else, allowing Simple French on Incubator, but no other simple project, would open an enormous can of worms ...) I think what I am going to do here is to email the user and ask him if he has ever taken up the idea of incubating within French Wikipedia with that community—and if so, what that community responded. If, though, the community does not want to do so, do I allow in Incubator? Encourage them to incubate within Incubator Plus? (OWTB and I are in the process of creating a replacement Incubator Plus somewhere else besides Wikia.) I'd strongly appreciate people's thoughts about these questions.
Wikipedia Sherpa<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sherpa> (xsr): Only one mainspace page. Closing as stale.
Wikipedia Ottoman Turkish<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Ottoma…> (ota): This is a large, periodically active test. It last had pages added in June 2018. It's different enough from modern Turkish that I don't think a script converter does the job here. I'm not sure why this would be less eligible than Coptic, for example, given its historical importance and literature. Thoughts?
Wikipedia Goalpariya (Rangpuri)<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Goalpa…> (rkt): 8 pages created over three years (2012–15). 15 million speakers. Marking as eligible.
Wikipedia Hawaiian Pidgin<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Hawaii…> (hwc): Different from Hawaiian. But there is no test on Incubator. Closing as stale.
Wikipedia Jewish Bablyonian (Talmudic) Aramaic<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Jewish…> (tmr): The principal language of the Bablyonian Talmud. Test had a page added this year, but its other five mainspace pages date back to around the time of the request. Shall we just close as stale, or shall I contact the original proposer?
Steven
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Personally, I don't see why not in this case. To give an easy example, I can imagine plenty of reasons why there might be some data in Wikidata in en-gb, en-us, etc., even though there is no chance we would have separate Wikipedias for en-gb, en-us, etc. So I think we'd want to allow this.
Steven
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[moving this thread to the public list]
Hoi,
Before I am going to open that can of worms, I want us to agree that we would allow the display of data for such languages (ie even languages we will NOT allow for new projects).
I am sure that this will prove problematic and consequently I do not want this to be only me asking for this.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 7 August 2018 at 13:33, Steven White <koala19890(a)hotmail.com<mailto:koala19890@hotmail.com>> wrote:
It's why I'm trying to work down the backlog—and why I'm detouring from time to time to address more recent requests.
Gerard, can you post on the public list what the criteria are to allow a language in Wikidata? They're not the same as the criteria for project eligibility.
Steven White
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Hi,
In February we discussed the Western Armenian Wikipedia.
Here's the request:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Wester…
As a reminder, it is a somewhat special case, because the current pages are
not in an incubator, but in categories in the Armenian Wikipedia.
MF-Warburg said that they can be imported to a new domain just as easily.
Here are the links to the collections of current pages, which I received by
email:
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Articles: https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%
A3%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1:%D4%B1%D6%80%D5%A5%D6%82%D5%B4%
D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A7%D5%B6_%D5%
B5%D6%85%D5%A4%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A1%D5%AE%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80_%
D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A2%D5%A2%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6_
%D5%AF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A3%D5%B8%D5%BE
Templates: https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%
A3%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1:%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%B2%D5%A1%D5%BA%
D5%A1%D6%80%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80_(%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%82%D5%B4%D5%BF%E2%80%A4)
Categories: https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%
A3%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1:%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%A3%
D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80_(%D5%A1%D6%80%D6%
82%D5%B4%D5%BF%E2%80%A4)
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The translation of all the most used messages in translatewiki is now
complete.
Can we move towards approving it? Does anybody know an Armenian language
expert to verify this?
Thanks!
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
In theory, probably fine, but I can't get those links to work. Can you possibly post an actual interwiki link ("[[hy:...]]") on the request page on Meta?
Steven
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