Here are four RFL requests for Wikipedia projects dating to 2009 or earlier:
* Kichwa Wikipedia (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Kichwa): Interesting request. There is already a "Quechua" Wikipedia at qu.wikipedia.org<https://qu.wikipedia.org/><http://qu.wikipedia.org>. That's a macrolanguage code for all Quechua varieties, but that project itself is apparently written mainly in the Southern Quechua varieties spoken in southern Peru and Bolivia. The test project under discussion here uses qug, the language code for "Chimborazo Highland Quechua", but in fact represents a variety of Ecuadorean (Northern) varieties. (The Wp info pages on Incubator for 13 other codes redirect to this one.) According to the English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages#Classification) mutual intelligibility between regions is not complete. I am not in a position to say whether the current quwiki can or should incorporate this content in the long run, but on the whole I'm inclined to recommend that this be marked "eligible" for now. * Southern Min Wikipedia written in Hanji (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Southern_Min_written_with_Hanji): This one is related to my question earlier in the week, so I'm not going to discuss further here. * Mohawk Wikipedia (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Mohawk): Indigenous language of North America. No reason it shouldn't be eligible, and I marked it so. * Hazaragi Wikipedia (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Hazaragi): Eastern Persian variety mutually intelligible with Dari. The request for a Dari Wikipedia, in turn, was rejected about five years ago because Dari was considered mutually intelligible with Standard Persian. And the 11-page test project on Incubator has been utterly inactive since 2014. So notwithstanding that Hazaragi has a language code, this request should probably be rejected in favor of encouraging participation at fawiki. Steven Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>
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