These three are the only pending requests for Wikiquote and Wikivoyage projects dating
back to 2012.
Wikiquote
Pashto<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiqu…
(ps): Eligible.
Wikivoyage
Malayam<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiv…
(ml): Eligible.
Wikiquote
Syriac<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiqu…
(syc): Syriac, of course, is a historic language. Frankly, there are arguments to be made
on either side of this one.
Leaning towards "eligible":
* There is a Wikipedia in this language already. Frequently, languages with Wikipedias
are allowed to expand into other projects.
* In 2010 Milos marked a Wikiquote test in Ancient Greek as "eligible".
Possibly this case isn't much different, except that more people know Ancient Greek
than know Classical Syriac. (But see below.)
Leaning towards "reject" (outright):
* The written policy on historical languages reads, "The proposal has a
sufficient number of living native speakers to form a viable community and audience."
I have the impression that at this point, LangCom is starting to loosen up a little about
whether the speakers are "native" speakers, as long as there are enough
(reasonably) fluent speakers to form a viable community. But that "loosening"
seems to apply mostly to Wikipedias (e.g., Coptic), and certainly not to Wikinews or
Wikivoyage. I'm not sure about Wikiquote, as Ancient Greek is the only example to look
to. And in any case, I'm not sure that Classical Syriac really has enough speakers to
create a community; in that, the case potentially differs from Ancient Greek.
What about "reject" (stale)?
* There are about 14 pages in the test; all (except maybe one) were created in the
first three months of its existence. Since then, the test has been pretty dormant. So far,
tests that I have closed as stale have had no more than five pages created, and those
generally within the same month of starting the test project. So while this test has been
fairly dormant, it's been more active than that.
I'd appreciate some opinions on what to do here. I will say straight out that even if
the decision is to reject, I see no reason that the test can't stay on Incubator, as
it meets the less stringent requirements for a test to be hosted on Incubator. So
you're deciding between
* Rejecting outright, but test remains on Incubator, probably permanently
* Marking eligible (consistent with what was done with Ancient Greek)
Steven
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