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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