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Mingrelian Wikipedia

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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.

The closing committee member provided the following comment:
Proposal summary

Languages of the World (Graz Univ), Megrelian-Georgian Dictionary,

Megrelian and Laz Bibliography
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Mingrelian (or Megrelian) is a South Caucasian language spoken by a half-million people in northwest Georgia. Although in the same language family as Georgian, both languages are not mutually intelligible.

Arguments in favour

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  • Living language, actively used in Georgia, with many speakers. Traditionally in a separate branch from Laz since the 1500s (similar to the relation between Portuguese and Galician), both also not mutually intelligible although with many similarities. This Wikipedia would benefit people who use exclusively and almost exclusively this language in their daily life. Two native speakers already showed their intention and interest in participating in this project. --Malafaya 18:04, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Arguments against

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Why do you oppose it?

General discussion

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Mingrelians are Georgians. We have one historical and ethnical roots. Akakigeo 19:56, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the users say that Mingrelian is their native language. No, they are sitizens of Georgia and Gerogian is their native language. You may ask that, why Abkhazian wikipedia and why not Mingrelian? Because, by the Constitution of Georgia, Abkhazia is Auytonomous Republic and according to the 8th article of constitution, "The state language of Georgia shall be Georgian, and in Abkhazia — also Abkhazian." But you cannot find anywhere "Mingrelian Language". Of course, mingrelian can talk each other in Mingrelian Language, but I oppose the idea of "Mingrelian wikipedia". Mingrelians are Georgian people and Georgia has own wikipedia — ka.wikipedia.org -- Nodar Kherkheulidze 09:57, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Georgia is a country, whereas Wikipedias are per language and do not follow what is written in constitutions of certain countries. Everyone has the right to access information in his/her own native language. The Mingrelian Wikipedia will likely be created soon. SPQRobin (talk) 11:02, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

indeed, Wikipedia is per language not per constitution. and what is the relevance of the Georgian constitution here? Nothing, absolutely nothing. and don't bring here nationalistic crap. There are lots of countries with lots of languages and only some languages have constitutional status, but most languages have wikipeida!!!


Agrees with SPQRobin Vibhijain 11:13, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because of they are Georgians, their native language is Georgian. -- Nodar Kherkheulidze 18:36, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Does someone like so or not Mingrelian is my native language :) But in any case your argument is pointless as others already mentioned. Language exists. Therefore if there are sufficient users who wish to edit, wiki will be launched Kilavagora 20:37, 15 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For supporters: Please, while supporting creating that wiki, have in mind, that we all know Mingrelians are Georgians, but this will be used by enemy of our unity in dirty ways, as it always did. It acts with same, old rules. And someday, it will say: 'Look, Mingrelians have their own language, own place to live and even own Wikipedia!, So they are NOT Georgians, they are independent nation, Mingrelians!' Please, don't give them more arguments for crashing our unity, even by words. Thanks.—G.G. 06:25, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Yes, we are one nation and our unity is in our hands and it does not depend on anyone else! I regret to see that so many of you just don't want Megrelian Language to develop and to help us! I regret to see how you ignore our pain generated from the hopeless condition of our language! Anyway, hope wiki will be launched and soon you will be assured that all of your fears are groundless.

Friendly advice

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A friendly advice for the future editors of that wiki ( Malafaya, Dato deutschland, Alsandro, Island ...): make a wiki-babel (here on Meta) that contains kwf-N (or kwf-3, kwf-2, kwf-1).
Otherwise, you're confusing others (here on Meta). Noone of you has the kwf-wikibabel on Meta (some of you neither on ka.wiki): [1] [2] [3] [4]. Without that wikibabel, uninformed user might think that that language doesn't exist at all. Kubura 04:32, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Babel extension for Mingrelian has been supported for a long, long time. Thanks, GerardM 17:04, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Localisation update

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Currently the localisation effort is at 65.03% for the most used messages. Thanks, GerardM 06:21, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The localisation effort is now at 85.57% for the most used messages. Malafaya 23:30, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approval

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The Mingrelian Wikipedia has been approved. Please complete the following questionnaire to proceed. ZaDiak 11:57, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is the new template. It's more complete and will make it (hopefully) easier. SPQRobin (talk) 13:09, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  Done — Kilavagora 14:22, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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