Please see the mails from the thread "Approval of Konkani Wikipedia" from <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/langcom/2015-March/thread.html> and <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/langcom/2015-April/thread.html>, especially this one from SJ:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/langcom/2015-March/000221.html
And the last mail about it (from yours truly): https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/langcom/2015-April/000230.html
It is possible that afterwards I did this "1 week public notice" thing for some time when processing requests, I don't really remember. However in more recent times I clearly had forgotten about that. I think when others handled requests they also went ahead straightaway to file a bug on Bugzilla/Phabricator.
This seems to be a good time then to update the onwiki documentation to the actual practice or to what we would like it to be.

2016-09-14 14:09 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic <millosh@gmail.com>:
Counting how much time is needed for a project to come to this stage
present, I don't think four days are a big deal. It's also a good idea
to give the Board a legal method to block project creation, than to
come into awkward situations.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Mmmm... I have a very vague memory of something like this, but it must be
> documented properly and not as "some mail" :)
>
> These two pages do mention the board:
> * more official: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy
> * less official:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Handbook_(committee)
>
> If it's not required, they must be updated.
>
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> ‪“We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>
> 2016-09-14 13:57 GMT+03:00 MF-Warburg <mfwarburg@googlemail.com>:
>>
>> According to some mail from the board some years ago, we can nowadays
>> proceed with approving new languages without contacting them at all, no? ;)
>>
>> Am 14.09.2016 12:29 schrieb "Amir E. Aharoni"
>> <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>:
>>>
>>> Hi Christophe,
>>>
>>> According to the Language Committee Handbook,[1] I am notifying you that
>>> the committee supports the creation of the Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia at the
>>> domain olo.wikipedia.org.
>>>
>>> Livvi-Karelian[3] is one of the Karelian languages, spoken in Northern
>>> Russia. The Wikipedia in it has been active in the Incubator for over a
>>> year, and the texts in it were verified by an external expert (see the
>>> forwarded email below).
>>>
>>> If there are no objections from the Board, then after four days I will
>>> request the creation of the domain from Wikimedia's operations people.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Handbook_(committee)
>>> [2]
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/langcom/2016-September/thread.html
>>> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livvi-Karelian_language
>>>
>>> --
>>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>
>>> Date: 2016-09-14 13:19 GMT+03:00
>>> Subject: Re: [Langcom] wp/olo expert approval
>>> To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee
>>> ‫‎<langcom@lists.wikimedia.org>‎‬
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> It's been over a week without objections, so according to
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Handbook_(committee) , I
>>> am moving to Board approval.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>>>
>>> 2016-09-05 21:11 GMT+03:00 Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org>:
>>>>
>>>> Looks convincing; I approve.
>>>>
>>>> Oliver
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05-Sep-16 13:30, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The Wikipeda in the Livvi-Karelian language has been pretty active in
>>>> the incubator. After noticing it, I sent a request to an expert I found:
>>>> Tatyana Pashkova, candidate of sciences in the Petrozavodsk State
>>>> University, specializing in Karelian languages. This was back in July, and
>>>> today she finally replied and said that the language is indeed
>>>> Livvi-Karelian (see the forwarded email conversation in Russian below).
>>>>
>>>> The activity in the incubator is still pretty good, with at least four
>>>> contributors making dozens of contributions every month for the last year,
>>>> and the translation of the most used messages is complete.
>>>>
>>>> Given all this, I suggest approving it and creating the domain
>>>> olo.wikipedia.org.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>>>> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>>>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>>>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Татьяна Пашкова <tvp-1979@mail.ru>
>>>> Date: 2016-09-05 13:59 GMT+03:00
>>>> Subject:
>>>> To: ‫amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il‬
>>>>
>>>> Уважаемый Амир!!!! Все статьи, на которые Вы мне отправили ссылки,
>>>> написаны на ливвиковском наречии карельского языка. Я это подтверждаю. С
>>>> уважением, Пашкова
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Татьяна Пашкова
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2016-07-24 15:36 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni
>>>> <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Уважаемая Татьяна Владимировна,
>>>>>
>>>>> Меня зовут Амир Аарони. Я обращаюсь к вам от имени языкового комитета
>>>>> Википедии, свободной многоязычной энциклопедии в интернете.
>>>>>
>>>>> Нам была подана просьба открыть новый раздел Википедии на ливвиковском
>>>>> карельском языке. Для этого нам требуется небольшая консультация
>>>>> эксперта
>>>>> по этому языку.
>>>>>
>>>>> Всё, что требуется, это понять, действительно ли написаны статьи в
>>>>> инкубаторе-черновике этой Википедии на это языке.
>>>>>
>>>>> Вот заглавная страница:
>>>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/olo/Pi%C3%A4sivu
>>>>>
>>>>> И вот несколько примеров статей:
>>>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/olo/Komiettu
>>>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/olo/Mustu_loukko
>>>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/olo/Kosmoj%C3%A4rvi
>>>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/olo/Ala-Kuittijärvi
>>>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/olo/Atomu
>>>>> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/olo/Arheolougii
>>>>>
>>>>> Большое спасибо!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Амир Аарони
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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