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Balkan Romani Wikipedia

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This language has been verified as eligible.
The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page.

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  • 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.
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What Value Example / Explanation
Proposal
Language code rmn (SIL, Glottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Balkan Romani Language name in English
Language name Balkan Romani 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 Q1256701 - 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 no indication 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 rmn.wikipedia.org langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name "Wikipedia" in your language
Project namespace usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace "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").
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Additional settings Anything else that should be set
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Proposal

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As per earlier discussion.

Discussion

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Arguments in favour

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  • none

Arguments against

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  • Contra The language has no literary tradition, it is not taught in Bulgaria (where a significant part of the population lives), I do not see any reason for splitting a Wikipedia in a certain dialect of the Romani language, since a Wikipedia in Romani already exists (does it?). It is unclear whether the script must be Cyrillic or Latin. Bogorm 10:04, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Contra--Reality006 23:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

General discussion

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Balkan Romani is a classification of the Romani languages as poken in the Balkanese nations of former Yugoslavia, and also Greece, Turkey and Albania. This language is a classical language in Thrace,Turkey. --Tutunsuz 12:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC+2)

Thrace is splitted between three countries, only East Thrace is in Turkey. And as astonishingly as suspiciously you happened to skip Bulgaria, which has the biggest percentage of Gypsy population on the peninsula. Bogorm 10:04, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Localisation update

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