Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Meänkieli

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. A committee member provided the following comment: Eligible. Please contribute to the test project at Incubator. For LangCom: StevenJ81 (talk) 15:09, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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	fit (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Meänkieli	Language name in English
Language name		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	Q13357 - item has currently the following values: English label: Meänkieli native label (P1705): meänkieli instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): language, modern language, minority language, dialect / Finnish Wikimedia language code (P424): fit writing system (P282): Finnish alphabet, Latin script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 70,000, 150,000	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	no indication	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	fit.wiktionary.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

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

I suggest that we add a new language to Wiktionary. Meänkieli was earlier a dialect of Finnish, but since 2000 it is recognised by the Swedish parliament as a language in its own right. We need to built up a dictionary and grammar for that language. Wiktionary suits fairly well for that purpose. It has not automatic declination generators, but the paradims as such are useful later on. All declinations must thus be written, but it is a good start. Model for Meänkieli is the Finnish language. Many paradigms can be borrowed and adapted to Meänkieli. Quick progress thus.

Proposed by: Birger Winsa is an associate professor in Meänkieli. He has worked for 25 years with the language.

Alternative names: I guess there are no other better qualified/interested person better than Mr Winsa

Word for the projects can be taken from www.nordfinska.se — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Linguist (talk)

Discussion