Requests for new languages/Wikinews Gilaki

Gilaki Wikinews

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, recent changes). 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	glk (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Gilaki	Language name in English
Language name	گیلکی	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	Q33657 - item has currently the following values: English label: Gilaki native label (P1705): گيلکي instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): language, modern language / Caspian Wikimedia language code (P424): glk writing system (P282): Arabic script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 2,550,000	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	RTL	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	glk.wikinews.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

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

Proposal

Location spoken:Iran

Discussion

Arguments in favour

Support Strong support-- we want to have Gilaki Wikinews.--AminSanaei 09:09, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Strong support-- Yea! Its great!! We want to have Gileki Wikinews. I keep working on its incubator project and now, we want to an original WkiNews. || Varg 10:45, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Strong Support -- --Ali 13:51, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I wholeheartedly support it! --Mirzali 22:27, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Faramarz^reply 21:35, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ταπυροι (گپ) 07:52, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Bilijacks (talk) 08:33, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

Oppose Oppose This is one out of 5 proposals for a Gilaki wiki. Though Limburgish has so many proposals too there's a difference. There's no activity and Gilaki does not seem to be ready get for a Wikibooks, a Wikinews, a Wikiquote, a Wiktionary nor a Wikiversity. Maybe this will change in the future but not now. If there's any activity shown, I'll become in favour of this request. --OosWesThoesBes 15:56, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oppose It does have a very small Wikipedia yet. Please make the Wikipedia much larger, before starting a News Spin-off. --Jeroen 02:09, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oppose Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 04:09, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose--Reality006 23:06, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Dead project. --N KOzi^Talk 14:00, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Strong oppose, even Gilaki Wikipedia is almost dead. --Z 18:18, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oppose Bodhdharma (talk) 11:30, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

General discussion

It would be really great, I personally not interested to reading news in any other language, but the caspian one. Since every item in news could refer to local events, So i'll keep working on it by my caspian language Mazanderani. (All caspian languages are mutually intelligble), Also there is no official agency publishing news in wikipedia:Caspian languages, This one Although it is not offcial would be excite!. --Ali 13:51, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All of you can understand Persian at near-native level. I can't see what is the benefit of having a Wikinews in this language. Even Persian Wikinews is a small project, Gilaki Wikipedia is pretty dead, and you want Gilaki Wikinews? I really can't see.. --Z 18:45, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incubator

Localisation update

Currently 0.99% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Both numbers have to be 100%... Thanks, GerardM 04:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Currently 0.89% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.10% 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 11:00, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]