On 7/7/05, Ros' Haruo rosharuo@gmail.com wrote:
In the discussion on setting up Ladino, Angela gave some useful information which included that (paraphrasing from memory) "for natural languages, once there are five supporters and no objections, it can be set up".
I wrote it like that because I don't think there is consensus on the question of whether Wikimedia should have any more constructed or fictional languages.
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Non-natural http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Tolkien_languages http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Artificial_languages_equal_rights
The policy itself isn't exactly agreed on, but nothing better has yet replaced it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Policy_for_wikis_in_new_languages
There are slightly different policies for Wikinews (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Start_a_new_edition), and new projects (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy), and the rules for Wikisource are still under discussion (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_domain_requests)
Angela