Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Northwest African
Arabic<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipe…ic>:
This request was apparently created by Milos in 2011 in response to this older
request<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikip…ic>.
There is no language code associated with the request. I would note that
* There are approved requests for "Moroccan Arabic" and "Algerian
Arabic", as well as an open request for "Tunisian Arabic".
* The only one of the three tests that is very active now is the Algerian
test<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedi…ri>,
which is being driven to a great extent by the university in Chlef, Algeria. (See this
page<https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bachounda#Preparing_…
and this
page<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projets_p%C3%A9dagogiq…17>.)
The general approach in this project is to try to make it accessible to all speakers of
Maghrebi Arabic. (One of the test administrators on this project is a founding member of
the Wikimedia Tunisian User Group, and is also a founding member of the Wikiproject
Maghrebi Arabic. For good measure, he's also a test-admin on the Tunisian test.)
On the whole, this separate request is no longer necessary. I will wait a few days for
comments, but otherwise I plan to reject, directing interested parties to the Algerian
test.
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia
Marwari<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikip…ri>:
This carries the language code of a macrolanguage. I've asked Satdeep Gill for
comments, and User:Liuxinyu970226 has asked Wikimedia India and WMCUG Pakistan for
comments. Neither of us has received a response yet. So I'm marking this as "in
progress" for the time being.
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia
Mam<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia… . I
think this is eligible. There are about a half-million speakers in Guatemala and
neighboring regions of Mexico, and there is some instruction in the language in Guatemalan
schools. The test has ten pages, generally created around the time of the request, but
people have poked around them periodically.
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Colloquial
Cantonese<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wik…se>.
There is no language code for this. Effectively, it's a proposal to create a second
Cantonese Wikipedia in a combination of Han and
Bopomofo<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo> characters. The idea is that using
Bopomofo, rather than Latin, for transcribing concepts not having native Chinese
characters is more natively accurate. Even if this approach is valid—and one comment on
Talk:Language committee suggests that it isn't used anywhere in real life—it is not
sufficiently different from the existing Cantonese Wikipedia to merit a separate project.
The proposer has not been active on any WMF project except for making this proposal in
2011. Again, I will wait a few days. But I intend to reject, with a suggestion that if
anyone actually has an interest in this, they approach the existing Cantonese Wikipedia
about incorporating it.
Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Libyan
Arabic<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipe…ic>.
Notwithstanding what was just written about Maghrebi, this test has only two articles and
one redirect, dating to the time of the proposal. Rejecting as stale.
Steven
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