Requests for new languages/Wikiversity Catalan

Catalan Wikiversity

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. 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). 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	ca (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Catalan	Language name in English
Language name	català	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	Q7026 - item has currently the following values: English label: Catalan native label (P1705): català, valencià instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): language, modern language / Occitano-Romance Wikimedia language code (P424): ca writing system (P282): Latin script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 4,873,396	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	ca.wikiversity.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	Viquiversitat	"Wikiversity" in your language
Project namespace		usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace		"Wikiversity 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	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.

We are 7,000,000 catalan speakers and we need a free learning site. We need Wikiversity in Catalan. Every time that gouvernement changes, its politicians change our learning books and our classes and we do not want to pay every time they want us to do. We need a free learning web.

Arguments in favour

Davidpar 16:35, 17 October 2009 (UTC) In favour![reply]
İn favour too! --Josep Maria Roca Peña (talk) 10:06, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

No volunteers. First help at wiktionary, wikinews, wikiquote, wikibooks and wikisource (wikipedia has a numerous team). Meanwhile, incubator. -Aleator (talk) 21:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
--Ilaria - scrivimi 19:12, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a sysop of ca-wikibooks and I think the same of Aleator. We need help in other projects before create the wikiversity. --Xavier D. (talk!) 17:04, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with the opinions and comments expressed above. --Góngora _(T•ES) 18:45, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In Figueres meeting the strategy about several themes was discussed deeply. This among others. It seems better to focus efforts in existing projects. We are attracting new contributors to wikibooks and we can host there the learning materials. Once we have enought material we can open wikiversisy offering an added value since the begining and then we could take advantage from several situations in the catalan educational system.--Gomà 21:44, 17 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Other discussion

Localisation update

Currently 99.56% of the MediaWiki messages and 66.31% of the messages used in extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation have been localised at Betawiki. Thanks, GerardM 07:29, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Currently 98.45% of the MediaWiki messages and 66.96% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Localisation of these messages is a requirement before your request is finally assessed. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:58, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]