Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Northern Sotho

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	nso (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Northern Sotho	Language name in English
Language name	Northern Sotho	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	Q33890 - item has currently the following values: English label: Northern Sotho native label (P1705): Sepedi, Sesotho sa Leboa instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): language, modern language / Sotho–Tswana Wikimedia language code (P424): nso writing system (P282): Latin script number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 4,100,000	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	LTR	Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
Links	Northern Sotho General Introduction, Northern Sotho General Introduction, Northern Sotho Online Dictionary	Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	nso.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	File:...	This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone	Africa/Johannesburg	"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 would like to propose a Northern Sotho (language also known as Sepedi and Sesotho sa Leboa) as related South African languages such Sesotho and Tswana has succesfully been added as Wikimedia projects. This language is considered an official language of the Republic of South Africa and as can be seen from the external links there are a lot of resources available online. --Jakoli4 15:23, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Number of articles: 74

Discussion

Arguments in favor

Sepedi/Northen Sotho is the 4th most spoken language in South Africa followed by Setswana and English.Mohau 18:38, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

none yet

General discussion

Sadly, there is already a plethora of inactive and zero-content wikis in (South) African languages (e.g. Venda, XiTsonga, Herero, Ndonga, Kanuri). Therefore, I would highly recommend to first gather a group of prospective contributors to ensure that this proposal does not suffer the same fate.--Johannes Rohr 22:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You may consider, as Johannes Rohr suggested, gathering a group of contributors and creating content on the Incubator wiki. You would create dictioary definitions with the prefix "Wn/nso." (More experienced metapedians: if I am mistaken, please correct me.) --Iamunknown 20:15, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The "Wn" prefix seems to be already taken by Wikinews. See incubator:Wn/ko. I suggest "Wk". --Johannes Rohr 07:03, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Just seen that the Upper Sorbian test wiktionary uses "Wikt" as prefix.--Johannes Rohr 07:09, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am going ahead and adding articles at incubator:wt/nso, as this seems to be the naming conversion used. Mohau 19:21, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Localisation update

Currently 36.94% of the MediaWiki messages and 3.86% 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 13:17, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]