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This is a work in progress page for a community-drafted language proposal policy. Feel free to edit or discuss this page. See this link to compare this draft with the current policy.
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Please review the full text of this page before submitting a proposal.
The language committee processes requests in accordance with the application procedure and prior experience with requests and projects. The committee can skip steps in the procedure if they consider a request to have already met the objectives of those steps. Proposals for projects in a language that already has a well-established project may be fast-tracked in this way.
Application procedure
Requisites
The following requirements must be met by requests before they can be approved; although they can be met at any time before or after a request, the basic requirements should ideally be fulfilled before making a request. If you need any help or have questions, please ask a committee member.
- Requisites for eligibility
- The request is for a new language edition of a language-subdivided existing Wikimedia project in a language not yet supported by Wikimedia Foundation.
- Eligible projects are Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiversity, or Wikiquote. Multilingual wikis are not eligible unless they are first subdivided by the community.
- The language must be sufficiently unique that it could not coexist on a more general wiki. This generally excludes regional dialects and different written forms of the same language, especially when technical solutions make such alternative forms viable on the same wiki.
- Political differences do not justify a separate project. The Wikimedia Foundation's goal is to give every single person free, unbiased access to the sum of all human knowledge, not to promote the viewpoint of individual political communities.
- The proposal has a sufficient worldwide number of people able to express themselves at a fluent level, in the written, spoken or signed form, to form a viable community and audience.
- The request is for a new language edition of a language-subdivided existing Wikimedia project in a language not yet supported by Wikimedia Foundation.
- Requisites for final approval
- There is an active public test project.
- A test project is a collection of pages on an existing wiki where the editors collaborate as they would on the created wiki. The purpose is to demonstrate that there is sufficient community to build and maintain a wiki. Normally Wikisource test projects are in the Multilingual Wikisource, Wikiversity in Beta Wikiversity, and others in the Incubator.
- The MediaWiki interface is available in that language (see localization guide and requirements). A first wiki in a language must localize the most-used messages. Subsequent wikis in the same language also need to localise all MediaWiki messages and messages for extensions used by Wikimedia.
- Localisation statistics are available which describe the current availability of translations for the MediaWiki interface into different languages. The group statistics at BetaWiki have more detailed information.
- There is an active public test project.
Initial proposal
- Read the above requirements. Requests that do not conform to the policy will be rejected.
- Register an account