Hi, all. In 2018, the following happened:
* 13 new project subdomains were created: 5 Wikipedia, 2 Wikisource, 2 Wikivoyage, 1 each of Wiktionary, Wikiversity, Wikiquote and Wikinews.
* 2 others were fully approved, and are awaiting creation: Wikipedia Western Armenian and Wikisource Neapolitan.
* 4 others are tentatively approved, but are awaiting language verification: Wikipedias in Guianan Creole, Mon and Saraiki, and Wiktionary in Tacawit.
Concerning requests for new languages:
* All requests created in 2012 or earlier have now been resolved as "eligible" or "rejected", with the exception of two Wikipedia requests around the Balochi macrolanguage and one of its member languages. (Satdeep Gill was looking into that issue in 2017, but no further progress has been reported. We will circle back to that one shortly.)
* All requests created from the beginning of 2017 through 17 December 2018 have also been addressed. Most were marked as "eligible" or "rejected", but 32 are on hold pending test project activity, while the eligibility of one (Literary Chinese Wikisource) is still under review.
* All requests for Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikisource and Wikiversity projects have been addressed. Requests for Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects from 2013 have also been addressed.
* Remaining to do: 72 Wikipedia requests (2013–2016), 21 Wiktionary requests (2013–2016), 9 Wikivoyage (2014–2016), 4 Wikiquote (2015–2016), and four very recent requests.
Concerning requests for project closures:
* All requests for project closures that were pending at the beginning of 2018 were resolved.
* There are two open requests in discussion now at Meta.
Happy new year to all!
Steven
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Leaving aside the question of whether we should change policies about separate-language Wikisource projects for the time being, I'll note that our longstanding policy has been that three consecutive months of qualifying activity is sufficient to meet the "active test community" requirement. I routinely tell that to test communities. If we want to change that in the future, we can do so. But in this case, the test community has already done everything we have asked of it.
Besides, while it is important to ensure that each wiki we approve continues to have a contributing community, I worry less about Wikisource (and Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote) than I do about Wikipedia–Wikinews–Wikitravel. Information gets stale (or is quite subject to political manipulation) in the latter group, less so in the former group.
So I think we need to proceed with this approval.
Steven
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1. I am no longer going to announce explicitly here every time I mark a "Request for new languages" either "eligible" (because it's obviously eligible) or "rejected as stale" (because that's the only reason it's being rejected). I think I've been doing this long enough now that you trust I will do these things competently. I will, of course, continue to post all cases where I think there is room for discussion, and certainly all requests for approvals.
2. Has anyone yet reached out to the contacts to verify Saraiki Wikipedia? As a reminder, those went out November 15.
3. Guianan Creole Wikipedia sent me contact information for a linguist, but I have not been able to locate that person and am following up with the test community myself.
4. There are three other tests awaiting language verification. I will reach out to those communities to see if they can provide some contacts for language verification.
5. Hindi Wikisource will be marked approved next Tuesday if there are no objections on-wiki.
Steven
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Looks good. I posted an announcement on Meta today, which needs to run seven days before we can pull the trigger.
Steven White
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Hi all,
Hindi community has been doing a lot of activity on Multilingual Wikisource
for the past few months.
The project fulfills the criteria as of now [1][2] and I would propose its
creation as a standalone project.
1.
https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https:%2F%2Ftools.wmfla…2.https://tools.wmflabs.org/robin/?tool=codelookup&code=hi
Best
Satdeep
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I hereby propose approval of Mon Wikipedia. It meets all approval requirements, though as first project in the language, it will require language verification for approval. Because we're getting in near the holidays, I'm going to leave this open both here and Meta through December 31, to make sure everyone gets a chance to look.
Steven
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