Hi,
An Icelandic language Wikinews exists in incubator at
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/is . It would be really great if this could become active enough to move off Incubator and go live. The process requires several months of active activity. It would be another way Icelandic Wikimedians can engage with the Wikimedia movement. It might also be useful as a project Planning Wikimedia Ísland could claim as evidence of programming.
Original reporting done in Icelandic would be able to be easily picked up by other languages. (Thus reaching a bigger audience.) If content ideas are wanting, early contributions can be done by translating from other Wikinews projects. (English, Spanish, French, Russian are pretty active with usually at least one story a day.) The greater Wikinews community would be willing to assist the project in whatever way Icelandic speakers required.
To contributor to the incubator version of Icelandic Wikinews, you just have to treat it like it is not on incubator, but all the page names need to have the prefix Wn/is/ . You need to chose your test wiki at preference, and then you will get the proper search results, and links to this wiki's main page and in the sidebar for RecentChanges. Also, since all the internal links must have the prefix, it is useful to enable the gadget that automatically adds it to the links (but not to the templates).
Sincerely,
Laura HAle