In the meantime, I intend to continue to move other old requests through. Here are the first set of Wikipedia requests that have been open since 2011:
- Wikipedia Jawi (Djawi) (djw): Extinct Australian language. No test project was ever created. Rejecting.
- Wikipedia Bafia (ksf): Spoken by 60,- 120,000 Cameroonians. Test has about 20 pages and is moribund. But
there's no reason this should not be eligible.
- Wikipedia Mundang (mua): Language of about 240,000 in Chad and Cameroon. One page in test dating to the
time of the request, then nothing. Requester no longer active at WMF. Rejecting as stale.
- Wikipedia Simple German 4: The only thing that makes this request different is that it refers to
a standard for simplified German being developed at the University of Hildesheim; see https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/leichtesprache/leichte-sprache-regeln/#c36425%7Chere.
I'm going to wait a week for comments from the Committee, but I intend to reject this, with the following additional notations: (1) It is better to have such content live in German Wikipedia. (2) In any event, such content would have to incubate in German
Wikipedia first; proposed "simple" projects are not permitted in Incubator. (3) If and only if this becomes a well-accepted standard, there is substantial content residing in German Wikipedia, and then German Wikipedia petitions the committee to spin the simple
project off, we would consider it in the future.
- Wikipedia Kwasio (nmg): Another Cameroonian language, now with 25,-75,000 speakers. Two pages only, from
time of request, then moribund. Requester no longer active at WMF. Rejecting as stale.
Steven