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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 prg (SIL, Glottolog) A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name Prussian Language name in English
Language name prūsiskan 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 Q35501 - item has currently the following values:
 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 prg.wiktionary.org langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name Wikiwirdeīns "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:Wiktionary-logo-prg.svg This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone Europe/Warsaw "Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces Šablōni, Diskusiōni, Tērpautajas diskusiōni, Zūrbrukis, Spēcials 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

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Creation of prussian wiktionary aims at popularising this revived language.--Aklbmd164 (talk) 21:34, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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Support (but since I'm part of making this, I dont count), this dictionary might just be able to become the best dictionary for Prussian in general; accounting for both spellings and having etymology as well. Is this too optimistic? Is this even a good argument or is this a misrepresentation of Wiktionary? Kxeon (talk) 20:45, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Post-post update, I just remembered that this does not work. Dead/revived languages aren't accepted. Oops.
Hrm. Thinking it over, dead/revived languages should be allowed for Wiktionary, because of the sheer usefulness they would pose. But we would need to lobby for that. Besides. We tried that a few years back. It failed due to not getting a consensus. So... yeah let's just hope this didn't doom it. Kxeon (talk) 02:49, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
By checking [1], its language type was changed from Extinct to Living in 2009, so I don't see why this is still a problem. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 15:53, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Had a feeling the Language Committee might not see it that way. Guess I was too cautious. Kxeon (talk) 15:57, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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