Hi,
There's a request for a Wikipedia in Antigua and Barbuda Creole:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Antigu…
It's probably eligible, and I'll mark it as such in a week if there are no
other comments, but it would be nice if someone on the committee can check
the following:
1. Is it OK to use the name "Antigua and Barbuda Creole" when discussing it
in English, given that the language is also spoken in other countries?
2. Is the spelling "Aanteegan an' Baabyuudan", which is provided as the
autonym good?
See also the discussion at
https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Support&oldid=13151924#Request_to_e…
Thanks!
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Hi all.
I would like to ask for comments on the approval of *Wt/bew*. It has been
active since Oct 2023, and it has been 5 months that 3 or more editors have
been active[1]. Although it wasn't 6 months in a row, considering the
contributions before that, I think it's acceptable to have less than 3
people in just one month. There are about 6979 pages including templates.
Most important core messages have already been translated(96.25%)[2]. This
will be completed 100% by them soon. The request has already been
submitted[3].
I would like to ask for your opinion on the approval of this, thank you for
your consideration.
[1]
https://meta.toolforge.org/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=wt/bew&wiki=in…
[2] https://codelookup.toolforge.org/bew
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_Betawi
Kind regards,
Sotiale
Hi,
There's a request for Wikipedia in Dolgan:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Dolgan
The language has relatively few speakers, but it's definitely living and
has a code. In addition, the person who is proposing it appears to be
serious—for example, he already translated the most used messages on
translatewiki.
Any other comments?
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hi,
I suggest rejecting the request for Ancient Greek Wiktionary according to
the policy: Only Wikisource editions in ancient languages are allowed, and
even they are encouraged to be a part of Wikisource in a modern version of
that language.
There is no need to write definitions in Ancient Greek. Ancient Greek words
exist quite well in the Wiktionary in (modern) Greek, English, etc. for
example:
https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%CE%AC%CF%81https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B3%CE%AC%CF%81
I don't see any strong arguments to make an exception on the proposal
discussion page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_Ancie…
.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hi,
There's the official Language proposal policy:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy
There are also the less official, but pretty useful "Handbooks" for the
committee and for the requesters:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Handbook_(requesters)https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Handbook_(committee)
I suggest adding a few things there based on the experience of the last few
years.
To the "requesters" handbook, I suggest adding the following notes in the
beginning of the "Making a new request" section:
# Please create a request only if you speak the language in question and
plan to write content in it, or if you are doing on behalf of specific
people who do. Requests that don't indicate involvement by people who speak
the language will likely be rejected or deleted.
# If you read the Language proposal policy, and you think that the language
is eligible according to it, you should start writing content in the
Incubator as early as possible. You don't have to wait for Language
committee's approval for it. Existence of content in the Incubator may help
the approval process.
To the "committee" handbook, I suggest the following changes:
1. Add a suggestion to subscribe to [[Talk:Language committee]]. The
Subscribe feature has existed for a couple of years already, but I somehow
realized that I should subscribe to that page only today.
2. Add the following point to the "Verify as eligible / reject ineligible
requests" section:
If the request is for a language that may be eligible, verify that it is
made by people who know the language and plan to write content in it or are
in direct contact with people who are. If not, the request may be rejected
or even deleted.
Rationale: People sometimes make requests for languages that they don't
know, but about which they are curious for various reasons. This is
sometimes done with good intentions, but experience shows that it is not
actually effective. Seeing a previously rejected request can be
discouraging for people who seriously want to start a new one, so in some
cases, it may make more sense to simply delete it, especially if there is
no meaningful discussion. We already discussed it on this mailing list a
few months ago, and I'd like to make it a bit more formalized.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore