Precise and concise documentation on adding a new language to Wikidata
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	May 17 2019, 8:46 PM

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The use case: the language doesn't have its own Wikipedia.

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T223664 Process of adding new languages to wikiprojects without having to go through Wikipedia, translating the UI, etc.
Open	None	T124286 [Epic] Wikidata language support
Open	None	T223665 Precise and concise documentation on adding a new language to Wikidata
Resolved	None	T223524 WMHack19: Add Saami + Romani languages to Wikidata
Resolved	Yupik	T223539 WMHack19: The native language name for [sje] Pite Sami should be changed from "Pite Sami" to "bidumsámegiella"
Resolved	Yupik	T223544 WMHack19: The native language name for [sms] Skolt Sami should be changed from "sää´mǩiõll" and "sääʹmǩiõll" to "nuõrttsääʹmǩiõll"
Resolved	Yupik	T223588 WMHack19: Fixing the date and time format in [se] Northern Saami
Stalled	None	T217430 Add support for all Saami languages to Wikidata
Resolved	jhsoby-WMNO	T217521 Add sjk, sia and sjt as languages for monolingual properties
Resolved	jhsoby-WMNO	T220118 Add smn and sms to wmgExtraLanguageNames
Resolved	Tulsi_Bhagat	T226701 Add sju, sjd, and rmf to wmgExtraLanguageNames
Resolved	• 4nn1l2	T230480 Synchronize wmgExtraLanguageNames setting between Wikidata and Commons, and remove Nyungar (nys) from Wikidata
Invalid	None	T305608 Add inari sami (smn) language support to maps tiles and Kartographer
Invalid	None	T305609 Add Skolt sami (sms) language support to maps tiles and Kartographer

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Yupik created this task.May 17 2019, 8:46 PM

Yupik removed a parent task: T223664: Process of adding new languages to wikiprojects without having to go through Wikipedia, translating the UI, etc..

Yupik added a parent task: T223664: Process of adding new languages to wikiprojects without having to go through Wikipedia, translating the UI, etc..May 17 2019, 8:48 PM

Some of the process that has been done before:

WMHack19: Add Saami + Romani languages to Wikidata (T223524)

Yupik added a subtask: T223524: WMHack19: Add Saami + Romani languages to Wikidata.May 17 2019, 9:38 PM

Yupik renamed this task from WMHack19: Precise and concise documentation on adding a new language to Wikidata to Precise and concise documentation on adding a new language to Wikidata.May 19 2019, 2:34 PM

Existing doc on Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Monolingual_text_languages
Task that should be added as a parent for new requests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144272

Thanks, @Lea_Lacroix_WMDE !

These points are still relevant halfway through 2019.

This link @Susannaanas found is also great: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Identify_problems_with_adding_new_languages_into_Wikidata

Yupik added a parent task: T124286: [Epic] Wikidata language support.Sep 15 2019, 4:22 PM

Lydia_Pintscher added a project: Wikidata.Sep 15 2019, 7:41 PM

Arrbee added a project: Documentation.Jun 29 2020, 2:43 PM

Arrbee moved this task from Backlog to Other teams/Watching on the Language-Team board.

This still needs to be done, but I don't have the time or energy to do it right now.

Zache closed subtask T223524: WMHack19: Add Saami + Romani languages to Wikidata as Resolved.Jan 28 2023, 3:07 PM

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