2006/10/1, Jens Frank jf@mormo.org:

Please give this comments during the voting phase, not *after* the wiki has been approved http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Approved_requests_for_new_languages

I'm not the one to judge, I just created what was listed there.

Plenty of such comments were given in the voting phase, but in the end they didn't matter because the for vote could garner more people. I guess an open vote is not the best way to handle this kind of things, because the amount of interest, and thus the willingness to skew the vote by bringing in friends who otherwise would not have noticed it and possibly aren't even wikipedians, is so much different for the two sides. Open discussions and votes like this are a good way to check whether there is sufficient interest to create a language Wikipedia. For other criteria, it would be better to have some predefined group take the decision after hearing the arguments from both sides.

Andre Engels wrote:

2006/9/30, Jens Frank jf@mormo.org:

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http://wuu.wikipedia.org/ Wu http://mzn.wikipedia.org/ Mazandarani http://new.wikipedia.org/ Newar / Nepal Bhasa http://lbe.wikipedia.org/ Lak http://eml.wikipedia.org/ Emilian-Romagnol / Sammarinese http://bxr.wikipedia.org/ Buryat (Russia) http://hsb.wikipedia.org/ Upper Sorbian http://nov.wikipedia.org/ Novial http://pag.wikipedia.org/ Pangasinan http://bar.wikipedia.org/ Bavarian http://bpy.wikipedia.org/ Bishnupriya Manipuri http://diq.wikipedia.org/ Zazaki http://zea.wikipedia.org/ Zealandic http://roa-tara.wikipedia.org/ Tarantino http://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/ Zamboanga Chavacano http://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/ Classical Chinese http://cu.wikipedia.org/ Old Church Slavonic http://ru-sib.wikipedia.org/ Siberian/Nort Russian http://glk.wikipedia.org/ Gilaki http://cdo.wikipedia.org/ Min Dong

For my bots I would like to know:

What is the name of those languages in the languages themselves, transliterated into Latin script.

You can find most of them here: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/languages/Names.php?r...

For non-latin, I don't know :)

Filip