Notification about proposed approval of Interslavic Wikipedia

Hi, all. The language committee intends to approve Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Interslavic. If you have any objections to that based on the language proposal policy, please tell us here on this page in the next 7 days. Meanwhile, the community is asked to check (and if necessary, complete) the wiki settings as indicated on the request page. Thank you. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:34, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Notification about proposed approval of Bole Wikipedia

Hi, all. The language committee intends to approve Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Bole. If you have any objections to that based on the language proposal policy, please tell us here on this page in the next 7 days. Meanwhile, the community is asked to check (and if necessary, complete) the wiki settings as indicated on the request page. Thank you. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:35, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Notification about proposed approval of Minangkabau Wikiquote

Hi, all. The language committee intends to approve Requests for new languages/Wikiquote Minangkabau. If you have any objections to that based on the language proposal policy, please tell us here on this page in the next 7 days. Meanwhile, the community is asked to check (and if necessary, complete) the wiki settings as indicated on the request page. Thank you. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:37, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Approval request for Wikivoyage Belarusian

There is the Requests for new languages/Wikivoyage Belarusian. Can Language Committee approve the be.wikivoyage.org? That project some years existing in the incubator. Ясамойла (talk) 14:18, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ясамойла: Unfortunately, the activity levels for the Belarusian Wikivoyage are well below what is necessary to approve it at the moment. We need sustained activity from several users over several months to demonstrate that the wiki will be able to "stand on its own legs", so to speak. If you want to get it approved, you have to recruit more active contributors. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:51, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Approval request for Bole Wikipedia

Dear Language Committee,

The Bole Wikipedia has been consecutively active for 12 months and a total of 15 months. There are also 5 active editors who have made >10 edits. We would like to request the project for final approval. The request has already been made here. Thank you! RAPTOR7762 (talk) 23:17, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

I am reviving this topic as stale with no replies. @Jon Harald Søby: @MF-W: I hope you will consider this proposal. Thank you! RAPTOR7762 (talk) 10:41, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

@RAPTOR7762: See https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/langcom@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/R6QMPY6YC2CPUNKO5WFLA4IODTLLSIVD/ Jon Harald Søby (talk) 11:04, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you @Jon Harald Søby! I will track that page from now on. Thank you! RAPTOR7762 (talk) 04:45, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Notifying people via language categories

Commenting as I don't want to step on anyone's toes (bit late I guess). I've now done all the Wikipedia proposals by pinging active editors of the test wikis and letting them know of other active editors that speak the relevant language and appear unaware of the proposal. For when the test wikis were inactive, I notified active editors personally, which has been very appreciated so far, tbh I'll probably revisit this soon and do that for proposals where I didn't get a response. Will probably also do this all for Wiktionary proposals that don't have their own Wikipedia/test wiki, as well as for very small wikis, if I need more distractions from content work. If there are other ways I can help out do let me know. Thanks, Kowal2701 (talk) 19:46, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Approval request for Hiligaynon Wikipedia

Dear Language Committee,

The Hiligaynon Wikipedia project is currently active for 9 months since October 2025. Multiple Wiki communities from the Philippines are actively editing in Hiligaynon Wikipedia - including the PPC through our WikiProyekto Hiligaynon initiative. Currently, the aforementioned project has 2 native Hiligaynon speakers (who are also active Wiki editors) and 3 active editors with limited proficiency in Hiligaynon (spent few years in Western Visayas region). We are also actively looking for editors in Hiligaynon Wikipedia who are both active Wiki editors and native Hiligaynon speakers. Our community would like the project to be approved. The request for the approval has been made here.

Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Ralffralff (talk) 08:32, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

Proposed closure process being misused for speculation, personal attacks, and ethnic stereotyping

Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Navajo Wikipedia has been open for a year and four days. It should not have been open for more than a day, because as its proposer acknowledges, they have no actual evidence that anything is wrong on the wiki: They do not speak the language, they have not spoken to anyone who speaks the language, and they do not have any evidence of any errors in the wiki. On most wikis, this would be a speedy closure, the standard response to a proposal that cites no evidence. Indeed, the only evidence cited in the proposal was the nominator's disdain for the wiki's most active contributor (for, among other things, refusing to speak English on a non-English wiki) and a single Wiktionary comment where an IP said that some nvwiki article titles are novel coinages. I don't mean to accuse the nominator of bad faith. I think they may have gotten carried away after looking at some other small wikis, and I suspect they conflated coinages (which may be a mild issue with respect to No original research but are far from wiki-killing) with mistakes of language (the scowiki scenario).

What concerns me much more is how the discussion has progressed in the year since. A number of users have repeated the unsourced claims in the proposal without providing any further evidence, and indeed have compounded these claims by accusing the wiki's most active contributor of creating a scowiki scenario, of having behavioral issues (again, the only thing cited was wanting to speak his language on its own Wikipedia), or of not speaking the language. One temp account has made ludicrous claims that Unicode staff and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol know the user's true identity and can prove he is a fraud.

Beyond the personal attacks on the wiki's most active user, the discussion contains ethnic stereotyping and other hallmarks of colonialist discourse about indigenous languages. Some have claimed that Navajo speakers are opposed to using the Internet, or even find it too difficult to use. Others have insisted that they are acting in the benevolent interest of Navajo speakers, while declining to take any steps to contact Navajo speakers, and ignoring comments that cite statements from actual Navajo speakers. When a system consistently favors the opinions of outsiders over those of the people in the ethnic group affected, that is one form of systemic racism. It's an obvious thing we should be on the lookout for in wiki closure requests, and it worries me that it's not something we have any apparent safeguards against.

At a minimum, I would call upon a LangCom member to put an end to this farce, close the discussion, and issue a general warning to those who made or repeated unsubstantiated claims in the discussion. But that only addresses the current problem. In the future, I would propose two changes to the wiki closure process:

• There should be a basic "sanity check" phase from LangCom before a closure request can start. If the cited reason is the wiki misrepresenting its language, LangCom should require either an expert opinion, or evidence that many fluent speakers hold this view, except in cases where it's patently obvious (e.g. all the wiki's pages are in the wrong language).
• LangCom members, or whoever they choose to designate, should play a more active role in moderating these discussions, particularly to remove personal attacks, to be clear with commenters about what kind of evidence LangCom looks for in closing a wiki, and to point out comments that appear to rely on stereotypes of the ethnic group who speak the language.

-- Tamzin^{[​cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 15:29, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

I agree with you at some point. New wikis are created with LangCom decision, why do we close wikis with public voting? I believe wiki closures should be disccused in this page. People may bring attention to dormant wikis here, and LangCom would decide. Joseph (talk) 16:52, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Request to approve Wp/wlx Wikipedia

Hello languages committee, it has been long since we sent the Wali Language experts for the Wp/wlx approval process. We have been active since July 2024. We requested it here. Please we humbly request you to kindly consider approving our Wikipedia. Thank you. Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 08:15, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello Languages Committee, the Wali Language Wikipedia has been active for so many months now with 5-6 active editors. We would like you to give us approval. Muhaideen Faiz Brichini (talk) 09:27, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

i support this appeal. The Wali Wiki and communiry has been very active for months now and needs to be looked at. ~~~± Yaw tuba (talk) 09:30, 27 June 2026 (UTC)