Requests for new languages/Wikibooks Cebuano

See also: Requests for new languages/Wikibooks Cebuano 2 (verified as eligible)

Cebuano Wiktionary and Wikibooks

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Proposal summary
Language details: Cebuano (Sugbuanon, ceb ISO 639-3) Editing community: Bentong Isles (NP) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: — External links: Defenders of the Indigenous Languages of the Archipelago (Philippines) Lunsayng Bisaya e-mail loop
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Hi all,

With the "success" of the Cebuano Wikipedia (with 790 pages in under six months), I, in behalf of the Cebuano Wikipedia community and the Cebuano people, would like to request for a wiktionary and a wikibook in Cebuano.

--Bentong Isles 12:50, 5 December 2005 (UTC) (Bureaucrat, Cebuano Wikipedia)[reply]

Number of speakers: 28 million (18 million first-language, 10 million second-language)
Locations spoken: central and southern Philippines
Related languages: Hiligaynon, Waray, Tagalog

Strongly Support----Harvzsf 17:32, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Chris 19:08, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support!--Nino Gonzales (N) 14:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arbeo 20:30, 10 December 2005 (UTC) (I think we can just wave this through for there is a successful Wikipedia in that language already.)[reply]
Support --Taichi - (あ！) 05:48, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support --ILVI 05:01, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but, imho, one or two sysops have to be immediatly appointed after creation, to fight spam. I would be disappointed if those new wikis begin as "spamnests" like so many other beginning wikis. :o) Hégésippe | ±Θ± 19:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
strongly support themoomin
Support Joemaza 07:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]