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Requests for new languages/Wikiquote Simple English

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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:

  • 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 en-simple (SIL, Glottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Simple English Language name in English
Language name Simple English 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 Q21480034 - 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 en-simple.wikiquote.org langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name Wikiquote "Wikiquote" in your language
Project namespace Wikiquote usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace Wikiquote talk "Wikiquote talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads yes 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 UTC "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.
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

Proposal

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The proposal is to reopen the Simple English Wikiquote.

See also: Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Simple English Wikiquote (3)

Discussion

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Strong support Strong support --Assoc (talk) 11:57, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I would say that that project is dead, it used to be just a sandbox of quotes, which is ok to use Wikiquote Beta Cluster instead now. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 12:43, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Quickly close this. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 05:18, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

*Strong support Strong support 强烈支持吧！ --Fanjiayi (talk) 02:09, 9 February 2018 (UTC)troll comment. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 14:58, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Strong oppose No more so-called "Simple" projects. This does not meet the requirements §2 and §3 of the policy: The language must have a valid ISO 639 1–3 code, but this uses English code because it's English and does not have an own code, and The language must be sufficiently unique that it could not coexist on a more general wiki. In most cases, this excludes regional dialects and different written forms of the same language, and this thing called "Simple English" is no more than a different written form of the same language called English. --Zerabat (discusión) 14:27, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - We should have a simplebooks, simpleversity, simplevoyage, and simplenews to go with our simplepedia and simpletionary, but simplequote is too far. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 01:09, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Closing comment

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The current policy makes it extremely difficult to create new simple projects. If someone has a true interest in doing something like this, there are some options available:

For LangCom: StevenJ81 (talk) 17:35, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.
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