Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Northwest African Arabichttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Northwest_African_Arabic: This request was apparently created by Milos in 2011 in response to this older requesthttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Algero-Moroccan_Arabic. There is no language code associated with the request. I would note that
* There are approved requests for "Moroccan Arabic" and "Algerian Arabic", as well as an open request for "Tunisian Arabic". * The only one of the three tests that is very active now is the Algerian testhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Jazayri, which is being driven to a great extent by the university in Chlef, Algeria. (See this pagehttps://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bachounda#Preparing_for_approval and this pagehttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projets_p%C3%A9dagogiques/Universit%C3%A9_de_Chlef_16/17.) The general approach in this project is to try to make it accessible to all speakers of Maghrebi Arabic. (One of the test administrators on this project is a founding member of the Wikimedia Tunisian User Group, and is also a founding member of the Wikiproject Maghrebi Arabic. For good measure, he's also a test-admin on the Tunisian test.)
On the whole, this separate request is no longer necessary. I will wait a few days for comments, but otherwise I plan to reject, directing interested parties to the Algerian test.
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Marwarihttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Marwari: This carries the language code of a macrolanguage. I've asked Satdeep Gill for comments, and User:Liuxinyu970226 has asked Wikimedia India and WMCUG Pakistan for comments. Neither of us has received a response yet. So I'm marking this as "in progress" for the time being.
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Mamhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Mam . I think this is eligible. There are about a half-million speakers in Guatemala and neighboring regions of Mexico, and there is some instruction in the language in Guatemalan schools. The test has ten pages, generally created around the time of the request, but people have poked around them periodically.
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Colloquial Cantonesehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Colloquial_Cantonese. There is no language code for this. Effectively, it's a proposal to create a second Cantonese Wikipedia in a combination of Han and Bopomofohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo characters. The idea is that using Bopomofo, rather than Latin, for transcribing concepts not having native Chinese characters is more natively accurate. Even if this approach is valid—and one comment on Talk:Language committee suggests that it isn't used anywhere in real life—it is not sufficiently different from the existing Cantonese Wikipedia to merit a separate project. The proposer has not been active on any WMF project except for making this proposal in 2011. Again, I will wait a few days. But I intend to reject, with a suggestion that if anyone actually has an interest in this, they approach the existing Cantonese Wikipedia about incorporating it.
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Libyan Arabichttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Libyan_Arabic. Notwithstanding what was just written about Maghrebi, this test has only two articles and one redirect, dating to the time of the proposal. Rejecting as stale.
Steven
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