From: Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>
Sent: Monday, October 7, 2024 5:59 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee <langcom@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Langcom] eligible / ineligible Wikipedia requests: C + meta-update

Hallo!

I am going through https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_requests_for_new_languages , project by project, letter by letter, up to ten requests per email, one email per day.

I am now working on Wikipedia, and today I'm handling the letter C.

Meta-update: I changed the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:New_wiki_request template to sort the requests in the categories by the language name rather than putting them all under the letter R :)

== Caló ==

Request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Cal%C3%B3

Code: rmq

My take: *Delete the request page.* That's right. The language is most likely eligible, but the request, as it is now, is pointless. The request was made by a person who probably doesn't know the language. No substantial information was added to the request, other than the template, despite the questions. The content of the Incubator is written by the same user or by another user who makes edits in many languages and most likely doesn't know this language.

So even though the language is probably eligible, it's better to start it from a blank slate when someone who actually knows it comes in.

== Carpathian Romani ==

Request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Carpathian_Romani

Code: rmc

My take: Eligible.

== Central Kanuri ==

Request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Central_Kanuri

Code: knc

My take: Eligible, and should probably be even marked as "approved".

== Siberian Yupik ==

Request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Siberian_Yupik

Code: ess

My take: Eligible. I don't have a problem with the fact that it's spoken by fewer than 1000 people. The request was made by someone who made meaningful contributions to Russian Wikipedia articles about languages of that group. Unfortunately, the request is quite old, but go figure, it can come alive.

== Central Tagbanwa ==

Request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Central_Tagbanwa

Code: tgt

My take: Eligible, but it is one of several requests made by the same user, who didn't do much else. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Boineun .

== Chitonga ==

Request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Chitonga

Code: toi

My take: Eligible.

== Chuj ==

Request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Chuj

Code: cac

My take: Probably eligible. Almost all the contribution to the request and to the Incubator is by a Ukrainian user, but there's also a bit of contribution by someone who may be an actual speaker, albeit six years ago :(

== Chuuk ==

Request: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Chuukese

Code: chk

My take: The language looks eligible, but I pinged the user who created the request recently to check that they actually plan to work on it: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gusss35

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