Regler for forslag til nye språk

Gå gjennom hele teksten på denne siden før du leverer et forslag.

Språkkomiteen går gjennom forespørsler i samsvar med søknadsprosedyren og tidligere erfaring med forespørsler og prosjekter. Komiteen kan hoppe over steg i prosedyren hvis de mener at en forespørsel allerede har imøtekommet målene med de stegene. Forslag om språk som allerede har veletablerte prosjekter kan godkjennes raskt på denne måten.

Følgende krav må imøtekommes før forespørsler kan godkjennes; selv om de kan imøtekommes når som helst før eller etter at en forespørsel gjøres, anbefaler vi å fullføre de grunnleggende kravene før du leverer en forespørsel. Hvis du trenger hjelp eller har spørsmål spør et komitémedlem.

Prosjekter som eksisterte før den første versjonen av disse reglene ble tatt i bruk (november 2006) må ikke imøtekomme disse kravene. Ikke bruk dem som et argument for at ditt prosjekt bør anses som kvalifisert. Det at slike prosjekter eksisterer, selv om de ikke imøtekommer kravene nedenfor, er fullstendig irrelevant i nåværende diskusjoner om kvalifisering.

1. Forslaget er å åpne en ny språkutgave av et eksisterende Wikimedia-prosjekt som ikke allerede finnes (se den fullstendige listen over Wikimedia-prosjekter eller SiteMatrix).

   (Det rette stedet å gå hvis du foreslår et helt nytt prosjekt er forslag om nye prosjekter.)

2. Språket må vanligvis ha en gyldig ISO 639 1–3-kode (søk).
   • If there is no valid ISO 639 code, you must try to obtain one.^[1] The Wikimedia Foundation does not seek to develop new linguistic entities; there must be an extensive body of works in that language. The information that distinguishes this language from another must ordinarily be sufficient to convince standards organizations to create an ISO 639 code.
   • Under very unusual circumstances, and provided there has first been an effort to obtain an ISO 639–3 code, the Language Committee may be willing to consider projects in languages having a valid BCP 47 language tag. Languages having neither an ISO 639 code nor a BCP 47 tag will not be considered under any circumstances.
3. The language must be sufficiently unique that it could not coexist on a more general wiki. In most cases, this excludes regional dialects and different written forms of the same language.
   • The degree of difference required is considered on a case-by-case basis. The committee does not consider political differences, since the Wikimedia Foundation's goal is to give every single person free, unbiased access to the sum of all human knowledge, rather than information from the viewpoint of individual political communities.
   • Projects coded as macrolanguages in ISO 639–3 are possible in some cases. New projects with a macrolanguage code are generally allowed if other projects with the identical code already exist in Wikimedia. In all other cases, these are decided on a case-by-case basis. There must be a reason why the project should be in the macrolanguage and not in one of the languages within the macrolanguage.
   • Codes for collections of languages are part of ISO 639–2, not ISO 639–3. These are no longer valid codes for new Wikimedia projects. A few existing projects continue to use such codes, though the plan is to move them all.
4. The language of the proposal has a sufficient number of fluent users to form a viable contributor community and an audience for the content.
   • Wikisource wikis are allowed in languages with no native speakers, although these should be on a wiki for the modern form of the language, when possible.
   • If the proposal is for an artificial language such as Esperanto, it must have a reasonable degree of recognition as determined by discussion. (Some recognition criteria include, but are not limited to: independently proved number of speakers, use as an auxiliary language outside of online communities created solely for the purpose, usage outside of Wikimedia, publication of works in the language for general sale.) (追記) (追記ここまで)Notwithstanding the existence of an ISO 639–3 code, fictional languages are not eligible for projects. Proto-language reconstructions are not eligible for ISO 639-3 codes,^[2] so are not eligible for projects.

1. There is an active test project on the Multilingual Wikisource (Wikisource only), Beta Wikiversity (Wikiversity only), or the Incubator (all other projects).
   • A project must start on one of these wikis. This will demonstrate that there is sufficient community to build the project.
2. There is a continuing effort to translate the MediaWiki interface into that language so that nobody is excluded from participating if they do not understand the English-language user interface. As a baseline, it is recommended that you begin by translating the "most used MediaWiki messages". These are the messages that are of highest importance to our readers and users. If a Wikimedia project in your language already exists and these messages have already been translated, we ask that you show evidence that localisation is continuing to be improved and maintained at a reasonable pace.
   • We ask that all localisation work be coordinated on translatewiki.net, so that the localisation will be available on all Wikimedia Foundation projects, not just the one you're active on. Another benefit is that MediaWiki as a product will provide better functionality for users of MediaWiki outside the Wikimedia Foundation. It is for this reason that we suggest that you translate the non-WMF extensions as well.
   • Localisation statistics are available which describe the current availability of translations for the MediaWiki interface into different languages. The group statistics at translatewiki.net have more detailed information.
   • Note that exporting of MediaWiki translations from translatewiki.net and consequently their availability on Wikimedia wikis only starts when 13% of the whole MediaWiki core messages are translated.

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