The last time this was brought up (in August), Antony said the following about it. As I see, C. Russo was not included in the mail, so I guess he did not see it. Therefore I'm copying it below. The request for Neapolitan Wikisource says it can't be hosted at Italian Wikisource because it's a different language. However, Neapolitan is already hosted at Italian Wikisource ( it.wikisource.org/wiki/Categoria:Testi_in_napoletano), and there is a longstanding practice of hosting texts in "dialects" (including separate languages that are perceived as dialects) at the Wikisource of the local prestige language. Indeed, Italian Wikisource hosts texts in many languages of Italy (it.wikisource.org/wiki/Categoria:Testi_in_altre_lingue), including Griko, which isn't even Romance. I'd like to see a stronger reason why Neapolitan texts can't be hosted at it-ws before approving the application. << 2015-09-10 8:51 GMT+02:00 C. Russo &lt;stolatstolatstolatstolat(a)gmail.com&gt;om>:

Thanks for your message, I have seen the mail from August and I think we have already given the rationale within this update. As a language oriented project (all the wikisources are), we want to give full support to our language. That's why we were: - continuously working in localisation (this month a bit faster): - In eleven years of other foo.source projects nobody else than the nap.source backers took care of localisation for this language; - providing support in our language: - I don't think I can change it.source + templates + documentation, to my language, and I am not interested in producing faulty documentation in italian. I imagine the italian community is not interested in somebody writing their templates and docs in neapolitan or in faulty italian. - I don't think it.source agrees to have 24h-365d contents fully in neapolitan in their main page and community. Other languages of Italy (vec, ca, la, de, el) were not excluded from the process. - If somebody of our visitors/contributors does not speak italian he or she will be excluded - It leaves open path for cross-source-translations (future) - - Still we need a common.css/js different for our locale - Effective working in neapolitan language, in contraposition to the ''collect-everything'' approach of it.source: - In 11 years of it.wikisource this is the result: https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/?title=Testi_in_napoletano&c… - I know there is a bit more, but nobody took care of classificating it properly. I don't think this can be achieved in any other foo.source projects alone, so the need is there. If we add the reason given by Gerard: neapolitan-language speakers are not second class citizens, and so: We have preferred to work under the mul.wikisource umbrella until we are ready for the jump, just to make the things right. Best regards, and thanks for including me, C.R. 2015-09-11 4:10 GMT+02:00 MF-Warburg &lt;mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com&gt;om>: