Hoi,
Prusian is imho not eligible, there are no native speakers. There is little
reason to believe that it is in a category similar to Ancient Greek.
For the rest it is fine.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 16 July 2018 at 19:12, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this first set of five Wikipedia requests from 2012 is pretty
> straightforward, even if I am going to leave three of them open for a week
> to make sure nobody has a problem with my proposed disposition of the
> requests. However, do please start keeping an eye on these, because the
> next couple of sets are going to raise some policy questions that I am
> really going to need LangCom as a whole to address. Thank you.
>
> ----
>
> Wikipedia Mi'kmaq
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Micmac>
> (mic): Aboriginal language of New England and the Atlantic Provinces of
> Canada. 7200 native speakers. Test has over 200 pages, albeit mostly
> one-liners with pictures. Eligible.
>
>
> Valencian Wikipedia
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Valenciano>:
> This is described as the main language of the autonomous community of
> Valencia in Spain, and has 2.4 million speakers. It has no langcode, and a
> request for one was rejected in 2006, on the grounds that Valencian is
> simply a variety of Catalan. (SIL/Ethnologue still describes this as a
> dialect of Catalan.) Catalan Wikipedia apparently allows content in
> Valencian. Holding for one week for LangCom comments, but I propose to
> reject, while encouraging potential contributors to contribute to Catalan
> Wikipedia.
>
>
> Wikipedia Prussian 2
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Prussian_2>
> (prg): Prussian went extinct in the 18th century, but there are serious
> revival efforts underway, and apparently a first, new native speaker. Test
> has had some modest activity in recent months. I'm thinking we should mark
> as eligible, while noting that if and when it actually comes to a point of
> approval—it has fewer than 20 pages right now—we'd hope to see that the
> language revival is continuing outside WMF.
>
>
> Wikipedia Khinalug
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Khinalug>
> (kjj): Endangered language of Northeast Caucasus with about 1,000 speakers.
> Test has about 100 pages. Eligible.
>
>
> Wikipedia Romanized Khowar
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Romanized_Khowar>:
> (1) There is no evidence that there is really a community needing this,
> particularly as a separate project. (Further, there's no evidence it
> couldn't be done by script converter.) (2) This is another project by RA
> Chitrali, whom we had trouble with on the original Khowar Wikipedia project
> not too long ago. Propose to reject. (On-wiki, I'm just going to use
> explanation 1 above. Explanation 2 is simply an additional reason to be
> skeptical.)
>
>
> Steven
>
>
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