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submitted verification final decision

This proposal has been rejected.
This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy based on the discussion on this page.

A committee member provided the following comment:

Notwithstanding the existence of an ISO 639–3 code, fictional languages are not eligible for projects.
  • 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 tlh (SIL, Glottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Klingon Language name in English
Language name tlhIngan Hol 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 Q10134 - 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 tlh.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").
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 File:... This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone Continent/City "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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There are Wikipedias in constructed languages, like the 45th largest Wikipedia. Also, Klingon has an ISO 639-3 Code (tlh) — The preceding unsigned comment was added by VitAlv13 (talk) 16 May 2024, 16:57 (UTC)

Discussion

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@VitAlv13: According to History of the Klingon Wikipedia , tlh.wikipedia was locked 19 years ago per Jimbo's request, also a Wiktionary request was rejected 11 years ago. Based on both situation, I don't know why are you requesting this, isn't this so-called language already barred by the WMF for re-creating? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 07:56, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Even a permanent decision can be reevaluated in view of new circumstances. In the case of Klingon, however, the reason why it is not eligible is clearly stated in the Language proposal policy: "Notwithstanding the existence of an ISO 639–3 code, fictional languages are not eligible for projects." IJzeren Jan (talk) 10:18, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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