On the other hand,, the Langcom accepted Lingua Franca Nova, which has no native speakers either. Yet, the project is doing very well: almost 1,400 new articles since it was created, less than three months ago.
Of course, Modern Prussian is a semi-constructed language. But then, the same goes for Cornish. Who are we to decide whether a language is viable or not? Personally, I'd mark it eligible. If they can make the test wiki work (I mean: really really work), then I see no counter-indication for a Prussian Wikipedia either. For the record, I've never understood why there cannot be a Wikipedia in Ancient Greek, since there are millions of people worldwide who can write in it. Best regards, Jan van Steenbergen 2018-07-16 19:59 GMT+02:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> >> Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > >
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