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submitted verification final decision

This proposal has been approved.
The Board of Trustees and language committee have deemed that there is sufficient grounds and community to create the new language project.

A committee member provided the following comment:

Eligible language. You are encouraged to contribute on incubator:Wp/tay. Antony D. Green (talk) 19:30, 15 April 2017 (UTC) Approved on 2021-02-25, phabricator:T275803. --MF-W 18:24, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
  • The community needs to complete required MediaWiki interface translations in that language (about localization, translatewiki, check completion).
  • The community needs to discuss and complete the settings table below:
What Value Example / Explanation
Proposal
Language code tay (SIL, Glottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Atayal Language name in English
Language name Tayal Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ...
Language Wikidata item Q715766 - item has currently the following values:
 Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed.
Directionality LTR Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
Links Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL tay.wikipedia.org langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name Wikipidia "Wikipedia" in your language
Project namespace Wikipidia usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace spkayal Wikipidia "Wikipedia talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads no Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons.
If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin").
Notes: (1) This setting can be changed afterwards. The setting can only be "yes" or "admin" at approval if the test creates an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) first. (2) Files on Commons can be used on all Wikis. (3) Uploading fair-use images is not allowed on Commons (more info). (4) Localisation to your language may be insufficient on Commons.
Optional settings
Project logo This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone Asia/Taipei "Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
Additional settings Anything else that should be set
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.

Proposal

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The Atayal language is spoken by about 84,000 Atayal people of Taiwan. There are 6 dialects in Atayal language.

Discussion

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  --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:40, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Settings

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Dear contributors, as the language committee intends to approve the creation of Atayal Wikipedia, please check and complete the wiki settings as indicated at the top of the page (like "Project talk" namespace name or the logo). I'm pinging the current highest contributors User:Miyahayung76, User:羅信, User:Ddtweawea, User:Iyumu, User:吉娃絲, User:Vickylin77amis, but please discuss the settings in the whole community on Incubator, if necessary. Since this is the first project in Atayal language, we also need the translations of all namespace names: 

 Media: 
 Special
 Talk
 User
 User_talk
 $1_talk [= Project talk, e.g. Wikipedia talk]
 File
 File_talk
 MediaWiki
 MediaWiki_talk
 Template
 Template_talk
 Help
 Help_talk
 Category 
 Category_talk

--MF-W 23:50, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also ping WMTW staffs: @Ffaarr, GDHFang, Alexsh, Li-Yun Lin, and Supaplex:@Koala0090, Imacat, JM99, MonicaMu, and Htchien:@Jasonzhuocn, Shoichi, Reke, Allenwang6212a, and Natsu621: --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 00:28, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear MF-W, The list below is our translation of each item/word in atayal, please check it: 

Media: media
Special: kin iniptnaq
Talk: spkayal
User: cinzyuwaw
User_talk: spkayal cinzyuwaw
$1_talk [= Project talk, e.g. Wikipedia talk]: spkayal $1 [= spkayal qutux zayzyuwaw, yan nqu spkayal Wikipedia]
File: biru’ na zayzyuwaw
File_talk: spkayal squ biru’ na zayzyuwaw
MediaWiki: mediawiki
MediaWiki_talk: spkayal qu mediawiki
Template: panmwo
Template_talk: spkayal sa_panmwo
Help: sni sa pinraw nya smbbaq
Help_talk: spkayal sa_sni sa pinraw nya smbbaq
Category: zyuwaw na
Category_talk: spkayal sa_zyuwaw na

Besides, we would like to know how to create our own Wikipedia logo (the puzzle earth)? Thank you. Iyumu (talk) 06:11, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You could ask commons:User talk:Odder for the logo, it seems like he often creates translated logos. - About the namespaces, is it important that they all be written in lowercase letters? By default, they would all start with a capital letter. Also, would it be appropriate to keep "MediaWiki" written in that way to keep the "brand"? --MF-W 11:46, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear MF-W, Thank you for the information about the logo. For the namespaces, it’s better to do with lowercase letters for us. In our language, we don’t even use capital letters in the beginning of the sentence. About the name of the brand, like “MediaWiki”, is acceptable for sure. Iyumu (talk) 00:49, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. On further thought, I believe the first letter of the namespace will always be capitalized by default, so that's how I submitted it now. --MF-W 18:24, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@MF-Warburg: No, there's a setting for that, already used for Sakizaya Wikipedia that allows namespaces and page names to have lower-case first. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:34, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I see. Great! --MF-W 12:15, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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