Requests for new languages/Wikinews Kupang Malay

submitted	verification	final decision

	Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. *Votes will be ignored* when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them** (see the Language proposal policy). The language committee needs to verify the language is eligible to be approved. Check that the project does not already exist (see list). Obtain an ISO 639 code Ensure the requested language is sufficiently unique that it could not exist on a more general wiki. Ensure that there are a sufficient number of native editors of that language to merit an edition in that language.

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	mkn (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Kupang Malay	Language name in English
Language name	Basa Kupang	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	Q18458203 - item has currently the following values: English label: Kupang Malay native label (P1705): instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): language, modern language / Malay Wikimedia language code (P424): writing system (P282): number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098):	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	mkn.wikinews.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	Wikibarita	"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	yes	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	Asia/Kupang	"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.

Discussion

The Kupang Malay language is the language of the Timor Island, Flores Island, Sumba Island, Alor Island, Sabu Island, Rote Island and in the Central of Maluku. Now the language is 500,000 spokers around the West Timor, Flores Island, Sumba Island, Alor Island, Sabu Island, Rote Island and in the Central of Maluku and in the East Timor country. This language is used when Written a SMS in Social Media, public information, in school, work and many of them. Its making the Wikinews language of this language is the good idea. Because in the South of East Nusa Tenggara is the Australia and in East of East Nusa Tenggara is the East Timor. And their education program quality is so low, because the language its so different with Malay. And East Nusa Tenggara is the place of Komodo Island. And its will be a news to translate into the Kupang Malay language.

Main Page: incubator:Wn/mkn/Laman Utama --Semuel Tahun (talk) 23:36, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Given that the Wikipedia for this language is nowhere close to being approved (the test wiki only having 6 pages, with Semuel Tahun being the only editor making non-trivial contributions), I don't see this Wikinews request going anywhere any time soon. - dcljr (talk) 00:09, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I still think a project can't be maintained just by one man, the requestor should indeed invite users live in Kupang to contribute, even they can only contribute one or two pages. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 22:27, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose--47.74.222.169 12:16, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose given the way how Wikinews works, it can't be maintained by just one person. SHB2000 (talk | contibs) 14:13, 8 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support If Kupang Malay language have 500,000 speakera, there should be a Wikinews Kupang Malay project.Пан Хаунд (talk) 17:32, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Not if no one is willing to work on the test wiki. - dcljr (talk) 10:07, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Wikinews is one of the least successful wikiprojects, both in not getting critical mass and in that the needed critical mass is so much higher than for other projects. There's no way that a language community that's still working on the critical mass for a Wikipedia can or should start a Wikinews.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:16, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose--Fenikals (talk) 11:23, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]