In the meantime, I intend to continue to move other old requests through. Here are the
first set of Wikipedia requests that have been open since 2011:
* Wikipedia Jawi
(
Djawi)<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipe…
(djw): Extinct Australian language. No test project was ever created. Rejecting.
* Wikipedia
Bafia<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiped…
(ksf): Spoken by 60,- 120,000 Cameroonians. Test has about 20 pages and is moribund. But
there's no reason this should not be eligible.
* Wikipedia
Mundang<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikip…
(mua): Language of about 240,000 in Chad and Cameroon. One page in test dating to the time
of the request, then nothing. Requester no longer active at WMF. Rejecting as stale.
* Wikipedia Simple German
4<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_S…_4>:
The only thing that makes this request different is that it refers to a standard for
simplified German being developed at the University of Hildesheim; see
https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/leichtesprache/leichte-sprache-regeln/#c36425….
I'm going to wait a week for comments from the Committee, but I intend to reject this,
with the following additional notations: (1) It is better to have such content live in
German Wikipedia. (2) In any event, such content would have to incubate in German
Wikipedia first; proposed "simple" projects are not permitted in Incubator. (3)
If and only if this becomes a well-accepted standard, there is substantial content
residing in German Wikipedia, and then German Wikipedia petitions the committee to spin
the simple project off, we would consider it in the future.
* Wikipedia
Kwasio<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipe…
(nmg): Another Cameroonian language, now with 25,-75,000 speakers. Two pages only, from
time of request, then moribund. Requester no longer active at WMF. Rejecting as stale.
Steven
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