Requests for new languages/Wikinews Albanian

Albanian Wikinews

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. The closing committee member provided the following comment: The wiki has been created at http://sq.wikinews.org/

Proposal summary
Language details: Albanian (shqip, sq ISO 639-1) Editing community: Cradel (NP), Eagleal (N) Ko.S.ystem.OV@ (N), Olsihysa (N) Lajimova 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: development wiki project External links: Wikipedia
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Location spoken:Albania (official), Kosovo (official), Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Greece, United States, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland, Canada, Australia & other countries.

Arguments in favour

Support Support There is alredy a wikipedia, wikibooks, wikiquote and wiktionary in albanian, its time there was a wikinews as well. --Cradel 16:01, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support -- eagle al 20:44, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support'Support' --Ko.S.ystem.OV@ 21:35, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support --ArttuS 12:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support. We have permissions from Beta news agency to use all their material from web site. Beta news agency has service in Albanian, too. So, it may be alive project if there are at least one or two Albanian speakers who are willing to take care about the project. (I may make engine for adding news automatically.) --Millosh 11:56, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 02:33, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support--Lceliku 00:50, 15 January 2010 (UTC) Albanian Wiki will definitely be bigger than some other already existing pages--Lceliku 00:50, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support Flokarti (talk) 10:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC) Albania has the highst procent on private univeristies.They need a platform to exchange teh information.Flokarti[reply]
Support Support--Olsihysa 15:43, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support--User:Laijmova See
Support Support - Its time for a albanian wikinews. --Mikullovci11 14:21, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support'Support' per above--Andrijko Z. 16:31, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

Oppose Oppose Albanian Wikipedia is to small to have a News Spin-off. --jeroen 02:03, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oppose This proposal started in June, test wiki isn't active since then. I'm afraid that simple votes without arguments in the section above aren't adding credibility to this proposal. Not enough activity - no project, this is especially true for Wikinews, which requires an aapropriate level of activity to remain useful. MaxSem^{(Han shot first!)} 09:46, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oppose I concur completely with MaxSem and urge the proponents to expound their support at least a bit (if not circumstantially), because just by overwhelming voting I cannot grasp why it should be promoted. And by the cogitations in this section I was convinced in their stringency. Bogorm 08:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose--Reality006 23:01, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Other discussion

Localisation update

Currently 73.95% of the MediaWiki messages and 8.62% 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 11:04, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Approval

The Albanian Wikinews has been approved. Please complete the following questionnaire to proceed. SPQRobin (talk) 21:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Language code: sq
Site: sq.wikinews.org
Logo (135x155px PNG image; a derivative from a decent SVG image):
Project name ("Wikinews" in native language): Wikilajme
The name of the project namespace (usually the same as the previous): Wikilajme
The name of the project talk namespace (something like "Wikinews talk" in your language): Wikilajme_diskutim
Default project timezone (something like: CET (UTC+1)): CET (UTC+1)

Filled. 76.87.29.175 19:24, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The request has been filed as bug 28022. SPQRobin (talk) 11:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]