48 supports, no opposition, 5 actively interested editors including a native speaker. It certainly has the requisite # of interested parties. Wikitech-l is perhaps more likely to grab the attention of a developer who can set up the new wiki... where did you send previous emails about this?

Hoi, Many people are in favour of adding Gilaki to the list of languages.. There is one issue outstanding as far as I am concerned. At WiktionaryZ the Babel templates are in an Arabic script.. The first Gilaki word however is in both the Latin and this Arabic script. Another issue is that the language is called Gilaki and only Wikipedia calls it Gileki .. It would be nice to have these issues resolved first..

GerardM wrote: There Babel both calls Couldn't we create it first and resolve the issues later? Unless you are suggesting that the existence of these issues implies that the proposers don't know anything about the language, I don't see any problem with changing either the default text direction or the language name after the wiki is created. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

Thank you all for your emails, 1- I have proposed Gileki . Me and other 4 editors are Native Giek. I just added (N) to their IDs 2- The phonetic of this language is GilƏki. In English, it is called Gileki and in French Gilaki. Ethnologe calls it Gilaki. This means that Ethnologe is not showing the correct pronanciation of Gileki. 3- Eventhough I had been asked to help to untangle the discrepancy ralted to the name of this language in WiktionaryZ, eventually I had to change every "Gileki" to "Gilaki", otherwise I have not been able to edit it. I think it is a quick wrap up but not necessarily the best and considering solution.

Yes, including: -Wu (code wuu, native name 吴语) -Mazandarani (code mzn, native name مَزِروني) -Newari (code new, native name नेपाल भाषा) -Lak (code lbe, native name Лакку) -Sammarinese/Emilian-Romagnol (code eml, native name Emilià) -Buryat (code bxr, native name Буряад) -Upper Sorbian (code hsb, native name Hornjoserbsce) -Novial (code nov, native name Novial) -Pangasinan (code pag, native name Pangasinan) -Austrobavarian (code bar, native name Boarisch) -Bishnupriya Manipuri (code bpy, native name ইমার ঠার/বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী) -Dimli-Zazaki (code diq, native name Zazaki) -Zeelandic (code zea, native name Zeêuws) -Tarantino (code roa-tara, native name Tarandíne) -Zamboageno (code cbk-zam, native name Chavacano de Zamboanga) -Classical Chinese/Literary Chinese (code zh-classical, native name 文言文) -North Russian (code ru-sib, native name Сибирской / Полношнорусской) -Min Dong (code cdo, native name Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄) It may seem like a lot, but in fact each of them has many contributors and native speakers (in the case of Novial and Literary Chinese, fluent writers) waiting to begin building them, and they have been approved by a majority of voters. Most of them have quickly-growing test wikipedias already. For more information, you can see if you like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Approved_requests_for_new_languages although that page is rather long and cumbersome now. Mark On 29/09/06, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: -- Refije dirije lanmè yo paske nou posede pwòp bato.

Excuse me? On 29/09/06, philip sampson <sampsonphilip(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > STOP !

Yes, including: -Wu (code wuu, native name 吴语) -Mazandarani (code mzn, native name مَزِروني) -Newari (code new, native name नेपाल भाषा) -Lak (code lbe, native name Лакку) -Sammarinese/Emilian-Romagnol (code eml, native name Emilià) -Buryat (code bxr, native name Буряад) -Upper Sorbian (code hsb, native name Hornjoserbsce) -Novial (code nov, native name Novial) -Pangasinan (code pag, native name Pangasinan) -Austrobavarian (code bar, native name Boarisch) -Bishnupriya Manipuri (code bpy, native name ইমার ঠার/বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী) -Dimli-Zazaki (code diq, native name Zazaki) -Zeelandic (code zea, native name Zeêuws) -Tarantino (code roa-tara, native name Tarandíne) -Zamboageno (code cbk-zam, native name Chavacano de Zamboanga) -Classical Chinese/Literary Chinese (code zh-classical, native name 文言文) -North Russian (code ru-sib, native name Сибирской / Полношнорусской) -Min Dong (code cdo, native name Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄) It may seem like a lot, but in fact each of them has many contributors and native speakers (in the case of Novial and Literary Chinese, fluent writers) waiting to begin building them, and they have been approved by a majority of voters. Most of them have quickly-growing test wikipedias already. For more information, you can see if you like http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Approved_requests_for_new_languages although that page is rather long and cumbersome now. Mark On 29/09/06, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >SJ wrote: > > >>48 supports, no opposition, 5 actively interested editors including a >>native speaker. It certainly has the requisite # of interested >>parties. Wikitech-l is perhaps more likely to grab the attention of a >>developer who can set up the new wiki... where did you send previous >>emails about this? >> >> >I think it's probably about time that we created a batch of new wikis. Are >there any other suitable candidates that we can do at the same time? > >-- Tim Starling >

Well, it was justified on the following grounds: 1) It was one of the "original" IntAuxLangs 2) It has enjoyed a recent revival of interest 3) Its test WP grew to a considerable size. I imagine the debate over Klingon would've been a bit less one-sided if the Klingon WP had had more articles. Mark On 30/09/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote: >I think we can do without Novial in the same way we can do without >Klingon. The arguments in its favour seem to give it an importance that >is not matched with reality. The inclusion of Novial words in the >English Wiktionary does not imply that a full project for this language >is warranted. The Wikibook about Novial quite properly explains the >language; it does nothing to establish that there is anything other than >translations or books about Novial written about the language. Who is >the audience for this language? > >I would even question the legitimacy of many of the votes in support of >the language. > >Ec >