Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Likpakpaln
| 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. |
- 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 |
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| Proposal | ||
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| Language code | xon (SIL, Glottolog) | A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ... |
| Language name | Konkomba | Language name in English |
| Language name | Likpakpaln | 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 | Q35674 - item has currently the following values:
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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)? |
| Site URL | xon.wikipedia.org | langcode.wikiproject.org |
| Settings | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project name | Wikipidiya | "Wikipedia" in your language |
| Project namespace | usually the same as the project name | |
| Project talk namespace | "Wikipedia 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 | File:... | 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 | |
Proposal
[edit]The Konkomba language, known natively as Likpakpaln, is spoken by the Konkomba people, who are also known as the Bikpakpaam. A reasonable amount of Likpakpaln literature exists. This literature includes primers for teaching, a dictionary, storybooks, and folk tales. There is also a full translation of the Bible in Likpakpaln, created through the work of GILLBT and GIL, Mary Steele, and RILADEP (formerly KOLADEP, Konkomba Literacy and Development Project). Likpakpaln is now a language course studied at universities in Ghana offering languages as a course. It is also one of the examinable languages (students choose to write) in Basic Education Certificate Examination. Due to the growing interest in using local languages as a medium of instruction in the lower levels and likpakpaln is not an exception, there is the need to digitalize the language on wikipedia and its sister languages. Besides, the community to embark on this new project to ensure that likpakpaln is onboarded on the internet through wikimedia projects is on standby. The community comprises teachers and students of likpakpaln language. The best way for Minority languages like likpakpaln to preserve the cultural heritage is through onboarding it on the digital space like wikipedia and its sister project. Base on this, I propose a new language site Wikipedia Likpakpaln: Hasslaebetch (talk) 22:11, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]@Hasslaebetch: Have you ever started the test project? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:26, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Liuxinyu970226 Yes, I started for Wikipedia Anufo and the community are undergoing training. Hasslaebetch (talk) 19:17, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Hasslaebetch I mean, have you created any pages under incubator:Wp/xon (still nothing created yet)? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:20, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- no i haven't created a test project yet. I was waiting for the verification before i create the test project. Hasslaebetch (talk) 16:56, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Hasslaebetch I mean, have you created any pages under incubator:Wp/xon (still nothing created yet)? Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:20, 11 November 2024 (UTC)