Here are four RFL requests for Wikipedia projects dating to 2009 or earlier:
* Kichwa Wikipedia
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kichwa): Interesting
request. There is already a "Quechua" Wikipedia at
qu.wikipedia.org<https://qu.wikipedia.org/><http://qu.wikipedia.or…edia.org>.
That's a macrolanguage code for all Quechua varieties, but that project itself is
apparently written mainly in the Southern Quechua varieties spoken in southern Peru and
Bolivia. The test project under discussion here uses qug, the language code for
"Chimborazo Highland Quechua", but in fact represents a variety of Ecuadorean
(Northern) varieties. (The Wp info pages on Incubator for 13 other codes redirect to this
one.) According to the English Wikipedia article
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages#Classification) mutual intelligibility
between regions is not complete. I am not in a position to say whether the current quwiki
can or should incorporate this content in the long run, but on the whole I'm inclined
to recommend that this be marked "eligible" for now.
* Southern Min Wikipedia written in Hanji
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Southe…):
This one is related to my question earlier in the week, so I'm not going to discuss
further here.
* Mohawk Wikipedia
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Mohawk): Indigenous
language of North America. No reason it shouldn't be eligible, and I marked it so.
* Hazaragi Wikipedia
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Hazara…): Eastern
Persian variety mutually intelligible with Dari. The request for a Dari Wikipedia, in
turn, was rejected about five years ago because Dari was considered mutually intelligible
with Standard Persian. And the 11-page test project on Incubator has been utterly inactive
since 2014. So notwithstanding that Hazaragi has a language code, this request should
probably be rejected in favor of encouraging participation at fawiki.
Steven
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