Wiktionary
Khasi<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktion…si>:
Legitimate request with respect to a language of portions of India and Bangladesh.
However, no content was ever created, so closing as stale.
Wiktionary
Bodo<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktiona…do>:
This is a language of about 1.5 million people of NE India. Wikipedia request was marked
eligible in 2017. I am marking this as eligible as well. However, the requests, and most
of the content on both projects on Incubator, were created by a single, young contributor
with a penchant for using multiple accounts. Accordingly, the WP eligibility note has a
caveat that any future project approval must include a checkuser to make sure that there
is a legitimate community working on the test. I am going to link this request page to
that caveat. (Note: neither project has been active recently, so I don't think
that's going to be a problem in the immediate future.)
Wiktionary
Riffian<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikti…an>:
One of the Tamazight/Berber "collective" group of languages, its Wikipedia test
has a substantial amount of content. No content was ever created here, though. The
Wikimedians of Tamazight User
Group<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Tamazight_User_Grou…
is looking into whether anyone is interested in starting this, so I will place on hold for
now.
Wiktionary
Slavey<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktio…ey>:
This is a language of aboriginal peoples of northwest Canada, and the test has a fair
amount of content. The complication to this is that the project is coded at the
macrolanguage level. Now, the only activity in Incubator is this macrolanguage Wiktionary
project, and as far as it goes, the Wikipedia articles "North Slavey language"
and "South Slavey language" both redirect to the article "Slavey
language<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavey_language>"e>". (The WP article also
suggests that the linguistic/dialect differences are pronunciation differences, so not
necessarily even germane to a written project.) I am going to assume that this is a case
where it is appropriate to have the project in the macrolanguage, and will therefore mark
it eligible, with a reminder that it needs to serve both language communities. But I will
wait a week for comments from the Committee before doing so. (I do have a query out to
Wikimedia Canada; if they specifically favor the macrolanguage project or favor not having
a macrolanguage project, I will report back here.)
Steven
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