Hoi, Today I have had the pleasure of indicating that two request for new Wikis are "eligible". They are both Wikiversities, one in Finnish and one in Hungarian. Given the rules for new projects, they are clearly eligible and I was pleased to find that both languages had most of the localisation already been done. It is a pleasure because it means that all the projects in these languages benefit from the work done. What I find really interesting is that three academic institutions are going to be involved in the Finnish Wikiversity. This gives on the face of it the project a flying start. :) It is also something quite special to have organisations involved in WMF projects. At the bottom of the request for new languages page, you find the projects that are "closed". This means that they are either rejected or approved or created. Closed is very much seen from the perspective of the language committee as for the projects themselves it very much starts when the projects are created. The problem I want to share with you is that for proper closure, approved projects have to be created. For the language committee we are about to consider again what projects may be given approval. It is important for the health of this process that once a project is approved by the board it is created, my question is what more can we do to ensure that the process is completed in a timely fashion? Thanks, GerardM http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiversity_Hunga… http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiversity_Finni… http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Recently_closed