Archives/2007-02-25

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Archived discussion
This is an email discussion proposing decisions for the Wikipedia Kabyle, Wikipedia Set English, and Wikibooks Sindhi proposals. Wikipedia Kabyle and Wikibooks Sindhi were conditionally approved, while Wikipedia Set English was rejected.


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Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
Feb 26, 2007 7:39 PM


The language proposal policy has been officially implemented at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:LPP>. Since we've been unable to arrange scheduled meetings, I'll propose closures with the reasoning by email. I've listed a few of the more obvious cases below; if there is no disagreement in a few days, I'll close the discussions as proposed.

===Wikipedia Set English===
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Set_English>
Reject. This language was invented by the proposer; it has no standard code, community, or audience, and is not established. There are no native speakers.

===Wikipedia Kabyle===
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kabyle>
Approve and wait for a flourishing test community; they recently created a test project, but it mostly edited by one user. This language is well-established, has a very wide audience, a large interested community, a unanimous discussion on Meta, a standard code, and an extensive test project.

===Wikibooks Sindhi===
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sindhi>
Approve and wait for a flourishing test community. It has a large audience, a standard code, and a strong cultural heritage. There are Sindhi editions of Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikinews. However, there is virtually no interested community to match the proposal, and they will need to work out a solution for the multiple standard scripts. Conditional approval is essentially a green flag for the language itself, while waiting for a sufficient test project on the Incubator.

Yours cordially,
Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)

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