Requests for new languages/Wikiversity Estonian

Estonian 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	et (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Estonian	Language name in English
Language name	eesti	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	Q9072 - item has currently the following values: English label: Estonian native label (P1705): eesti keel instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): natural language, macrolanguage, modern language / Finnic, Uralic Wikimedia language code (P424): et writing system (P282): Latin script, Estonian Braille number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 1,251,770	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	et.wikiversity.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name		"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	Europe/Tallinn	"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.

Support. Based on the number of active contributors the Estonian Wikiversity has been one of the most active projects in Betawikiversity in recent months. We have a small but commited community who is very much interested in establishing an independent Estonian Wikiversity. --Hans Poldoja 16:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This has to be obvious in the people who state they want to contribute to this project on this page. GerardM 16:44, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. My current 3+1 (one was compiled by me, but taught by another person) courses running on Wikiversity are all considered successful by participants and I plan to go on. I also agree with Hans - our user base is likely to grow, plus we also have got a suitable research entity to coordinate Wikiversity-based work in the Centre for Educational Technology at Tallinn University. KaidoKikkas 17:56, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

(+) Support. Project active and participants committed. Hillgentleman 14:54, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Currently 93.73% of the MediaWiki core and 46.48% of the messages used in extensions used by the WMF have been localised. Thanks, GerardM 16:33, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]