Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Magahi

submitted	verification	final decision

	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. Once the criteria are met, the language committee can proceed with the approval and will verify the test project content with a reliable neutral source, such as a professor or expert. If you think the criteria are met, but the project is still waiting for approval, feel free to notify the committee and ask them to consider its approval.

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	mag (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Magahi	Language name in English
Language name	मगही	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	Q33728 - item has currently the following values: English label: Magahi native label (P1705): मगही instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): natural language, modern language / Bihari Wikimedia language code (P424): writing system (P282): Devanagari number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 20,700,000	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	mag.wikipedia.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	विकिपीडिया	"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		This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone	Asia/Patna	"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

Magahi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in India, is spoken in cities like Patna. It is spoken in 9 districts of Bihar and 8 districts of Jharkhand and also in Malda in West Bengal. There are around 20,700,000 speakers of Magahi, including speakers of Khortha which is considered a dialect of Magahi. It is also known as Magahi which is directly derived from the name "Magadhi". It is also common in Magadh to refer to the region as Magah. Magahi derived from the ancient Magadhi Prakrit, which was created in the ancient kingdom of Magadha, the core of which was the area south of the Ganges and east of Son River. It is believed to be the language spoken by Gautama Buddha to deliver sermons. It was the official language of the Mauryan court and Gupta Empire, in which the edicts of Ashoka were composed. People in the Magahi speaking area use this language in daily communications. This language is official in the state of Jharkhand in India. This language is also threatened by Hindi, which is the state language of Bihar and Jharkhand and also there is a tendency of urban language shift among Magahi speakers. Wikipedia must protect Magahi by providing here a space for increasing it's valuable content of knowledge.--Indscience (talk) 14:58, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Arguments in favour

Support: Magahi being one the three major languages of Bihar with over 2 crore native speakers and official status in the state of Jharkhand, strongly deserves its own edition of Wikipedia. I hope more native speakers of Magahi will support this and contribute in Magahi Wikipedia. --ऐक्टिवेटेड् (talk) 10:30, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Magadhadipati (talk) 10:34, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Pataliputra01 (talk) 07:54, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- It is encouraging to see the community actively engaging with sister projects. This is a promising start. --ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 01:19, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

Other discussion

@Indscience: Have you created the test project at incubator:Wp/mag? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 03:26, 26 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]