The language committee has approved the creation of Wikipedia Sylheti.
- **Request page:** https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Sylheti
- **Language code:** syl
- **Site URL:** syl.wikipedia.org
- **Directionality:** LTR
- **Project name:** ꠃꠁꠇꠤꠙꠤꠒꠤꠀ
- **Project name (English):** Sylheti Wikipedia
- **Project namespace:** ꠃꠁꠇꠤꠙꠤꠒꠤꠀ
- **Project talk namespace:** ꠃꠁꠇꠤꠙꠤꠒꠤꠀ ꠝꠣꠔ
- **Visibility:** Public
- **Project logo:** default
- **Timezone:** Asia/Dhaka
- **Shard:** s5
- **Local file uploads:** disabled
Thank you!
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**Pre-install automatic checklist:**
[X] #DBA decided about the shard
[] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/dns/+/master/templates/helpers/langlist.tmpl|DNS]]
[x] Apache config (Not needed)
[x] [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/language-data/master/data/langdb.yaml|Language configuration in language data repo]]
[x] [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/master/languages/messages/MessagesSyl.php|Language configuration in mediawiki core]]
[x] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages/+/master/i18n/wikimediaprojectnames/en.json|Wikimedia messages configuration (optional)]]
[x] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Project-localized-name-sylwiki|deployed]]
[x] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages/+/master/i18n/wikimediainterwikisearchresults/en.json|Wikimedia messages (interwiki search result) configuration]]
[x] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Search-interwiki-results-sylwiki|deployed]]
**The creation is blocked until these part are all done.**
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**Step by step commands**:
Locally (in mediawiki-config repo):
`composer manage-dblist prepare sylwiki syl wikipedia Public`
On deployment host:
`scap backport #patch-id`
On maintenance host:
`mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=sylwiki`
Locally (in mediawiki-config repo):
`composer manage-dblist activate sylwiki`
On deployment host:
`scap backport #patch-id`
`scap update-interwiki-cache`
**End of automatic output**