Requests for new languages/Wikisource Venetian

Venetian Wikisource

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Proposal summary
Language details: Venetian (vèneto, vec ISO 639-3) Editing community: Candalua (NP), Nick1915 (N), Semolo75 (N), Beppe (N), Giovanni (N) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: development wiki project External links: *(English) omniglot.com (English) veneto.org (Venetian) quatrociacoe.it (Venetian) raixevenete.net (Italian) I secoli della letteratura veneta
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Venetian is a language spoken by 2 million people in north-eastern Italy, coastal Croatia and Slovenia and some regions of Brasil. The Venetian literature dates back to 13° century; the most important author is the famous playwright Carlo Goldoni. Other notable authors are the playwright Angelo Beolco nicknamed "Ruzante", the famous adventurer Giacomo Casanova, the 18° century poet Anton Maria Lamberti (who wrote some well-known Venetian songs, like La biondina in gondoleta) and contemporary poets Biagio Marin and Andrea Zanzotto. Candalua 12:56, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments in favour

Venetian literature is really much wider than many people think: by far on the multilingual Wikisource we've got more than 600 pages by 23 different authors, and the work is far to be completed.
Venetian and Italian are two distinct languages. Currently, some texts are hosted by the Italian Wikisource, but now that we've got a large number of Venetian texts, there is no reason we should keep Venetian and Italian texts in the same place.
Venetian was the official language (together with Latin and Italian) of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, so there are a lot of interesting documents written in Venetian: international treaties, reports from ambassadors and so on.
Venetian Wikipedia is doing fairly well (7.600 articles by far) and there is a community than can help with this new project.

Candalua 12:56, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

yep, there's a lot of content in vec lang on wikisource.org, I support this req--Nick1915 -^{all you want} 14:01, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Nick1915 and with the dog of the grape. On it.wikisource we already have some more text in Venetian, and I was waiting for this moment to come. My only concern is about continuity, but Candalua proved to be active and fairly able. Time is on our side. - εΔ ω 14:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I agree! --Accurimbono 17:11, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. All requirements accomplished. Hundreds of texts at oldwikisource, and more that are coming those day. Don't seem a wiki that is going to be abandoned so easy by its contributors. Good job! -Aleator (talk) 21:39, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

Other discussion

Currently 48.59% of the MediaWiki messages and 1.21% of the messages used by the Wikimedia Foundation have been localised. Please help the future Wikisource and the current Commons by localising your language at Betawiki. Thanks, GerardM 13:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All Mediawiki messages translated. Candalua 14:14, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All messages used by the Wikimedia Foundation are now localised. Candalua 21:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where are the Venetian works on it.wikisource, and how many individual works are to be found there? Can someone update the count of individual Venetian works on oldwikisource? Are current Italians able to easily understand Venetian texts? John Vandenberg 11:10, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]