Requests for new languages/Wikiversity Korean

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. A committee member provided the following comment: bugzilla:44460. --MF-W 10:41, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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	ko (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Korean	Language name in English
Language name	한국어	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		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	ko.wikiversity.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	위키배움터	"Wikiversity" in your language
Project namespace	위키배움터	usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace	위키배움터토론	"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	File:Wikiversity-logo-ko.png	This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone	Asia/Seoul	"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.

Approximately 78 million speakers worldwide

Arguments in favour/찬성 의견

Support - It will be more than just useful. Only the much time and effort would need is what I worry. Doatip (talk) 03:31, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support --클렌더스 03:49, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

~~Support --Yes0song 12:49, 1 December 2006 (UTC)~~[reply]
Note that simple votes will be ignored in accordance with the Language proposal policy. —{admin} Pathoschild 04:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Support It's useful for get an learning references in korean. -- Alpha for knowledge (Talk / Contributions) 04:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[Edited: 04:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)/04:17, 3 December 2006 (UTC)][reply]
Support I think it's useful. --Yes0song 08:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Rhythm 04:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC) I think, it is necessary and useful !!! -- Rhythm (talk) 06:41, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Note that simple votes will be ignored in accordance with the Language proposal policy. —{admin} Pathoschild 04:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Support - Seems to be useful because Korean "specific terms" (e.g.technical words) derived from Chinese and are very difficult to be understood.Whlee 13:18, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I used to link some articles about computer things to my Korean friends, I was kinda baffled to notice that the Korean section was taken down. --81.207.162.73 20:53, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support I have much confidence there are enough people to run this. (Red4tribe 16:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC))[reply]
Support It'll be very useful.--Kwj2772 06:37, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support This project is very useful. --Albamhandae 11:12, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
--Ilaria - scrivimi 19:16, 18 August 2008 (UTC) I think Korean language has many contributors, so a wikiversity in this language can grow fastly :)[reply]
support it would be helpful --Gapo 15:46, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
support who don't like education --Ilovesabbath 16:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support I think korean wikiuser's effort will contribute to sucess of this project.Yknok29 12:40, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support --개마리 13:48, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support For a user who start first beta korean wikiversity. -- Theoteryi 11:28, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

* support I wanna Korean Wikiversity. --203.246.106.96 05:02, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

support I wanna Korean Wikiversity. --Knight2000 05:03, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support--Jigsaw puzzle 11:48, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support It's time to roll. --jmkim 16:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support--Ihatbuet 10:36, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - hmmmmm...--Park - Jang sik tell me 03:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
support If we don't, we can't learn!--Zzang1000 08:46, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
support --Devunt 11:31, 17 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support :) - Chugun (Talk) 12:24, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Betalph 14:22, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Zepelin 05:57, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Idh0854 07:09, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Min's (Talk) 02:37, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support It would be the great cahnce to learn something to korean community.--SEVEREN 14:41, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support --NEARMISS 09:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support --the think is a use this the ok!!!User:수리자 17:35, 7 august 2011(KST)
Support --Wikiversity is the last project to launch. No more delay should be needed. 관인생략 13:47, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think It will be useful.--비엠미니 15:40, 2 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
SupportIt could be big step to korea wikiversityEdudesigner (talk) 01:47, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support It will be useful that someone works for school. Mr.SamA 00:45, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think It's very useful--DangSunM (talk) 11:51, 16 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think it would be helpful to many people.--SeongnamCityBus (talk) 7:03, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Support I think that Korean Wikiversity is helpful for knowledge contributions. :) --Sotiale (talk) 06:00, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~~I want you for U.S. Army~~I want Wikiversity Korea for all! Dynamicwork (talk) 08:22, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Please make a Korean version, please! --220.93.67.18 08:50, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think it will be very great teacher. --Isan (talk) 16:31, 04 November 2012 (KST)
Support I think it's great.--Jytim (talk) 00:15, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against/반대 의견

General discussion

General Comment - I would like to note that Korean Wikiversity was one of the original "demo" Wikiversities that was demonstrated for the original proposal. Unfortunately, it was put on en.wikibooks and subsequently deleted during a non-english content cleanup campaign. See this link for more details. If/when this is put up, I could suggest undelete some of that content, but it really wasn't more than a few pages. Still, the fact that it was even started at all more than two years ago (first edit was 20 August 2004) speaks volumes over the potential this could have. I hope the Korean speakers eventually get together enough to get this proposal accepted. --Roberth 18:07, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FYI Localisation is a precondition to final approval. Given that only 70.62% of the MediaWiki messages have been localised at this time, it falls short from what is expected of second projects for a language. Expected is localisation for all MediaWiki messages and all the extensions used in the WMF. GerardM 12:38, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
please make this language wikiversity fastly.--Betalph 02:10, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
For activity statistics, check here, not the above one. --관인생략 (talk) 03:04, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
KO Category (Korean Wikiversity in BETA) is activated. It has 250+ articles, default policies and guideline, many default templates. I think that Korean Wikiversity can be approved by committee :) --Sotiale (talk) 05:38, 28 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Localisation effort

Currently 74.49% of the MediaWiki messages and 11.54% of the messages used in extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation have been localised at Betawiki. Thanks, GerardM 07:32, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Currently 74.76% of the MediaWiki messages and 36.01% of the messages used in extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation have been localised at Betawiki. Thanks, GerardM 07:27, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Currently 72.45% of the MediaWiki messages and 33.14% 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 15:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Currently 99.37% of the MediaWiki messages and 74.29% 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 11:22, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Core messages = Done, Extensions messages used by Wikimedia = Done – Kwj2772 (msg) 09:15, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]