The language committee has approved the creation of Wiktionary Nias.
The Nias language is an Austronesian language spoken on Nias Island and the Batu Islands off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.
It had about 770,000 speakers in 2000.
- **Request page:** https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wiktionary_Nias
- **Language code:** nia
- **Site URL:** nia.wiktionary.org
- **Directionality:** LTR
- **Project name:** Wiktionary
- **Project name (English):** Nias Wiktionary
- **Project namespace:** Wiktionary
- **Project talk namespace:** Huhuo Wiktionary
- **Visibility:** Public
- **Project logo:** no custom SVG version so far, will probably be added in the next days
- **Timezone:** Asia/Jakarta
- **Shard:** s5
- **Local file uploads:** disabled
Thank you.
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**Pre-install automatic checklist:**
[X] #DBA decided about the shard
[x] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/dns/+/master/templates/helpers/langlist.tmpl|DNS]]
[x] Apache config (Not needed)
[] [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/language-data/master/data/langdb.yaml|Language configuration in language data repo]]
[] [[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/master/languages/messages/MessagesNia.php|Language configuration in mediawiki core]]
[] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages/+/master/i18n/wikimediaprojectnames/en.json|Wikimedia messages configuration]]
[] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Project-localized-name-niawiktionary|deployed]]
[x] Wikimedia messages (interwiki search result) configuration (not needed)
**The creation is blocked until these part are all done.**
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**Post install automatic checklist:**
[] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/services/restbase/deploy/+/master/scap/vars.yaml|RESTbase]]
[] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/services/cxserver/+/master/config/languages.yaml|CX Config]]
[] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/analytics/refinery/+/master/static_data/pageview/whitelist/whitelist.tsv|Analytics refinery]]
[] [[https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/pywikibot/core/+/master/pywikibot/families/wiktionary_family.py|Pywikibot]]
[] [[https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php|Wikidata]]
[] Import from Incubator
[] Clean up old interwiki links
[] Propose the implementation of the standard bot policy
[] Inform the [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Countervandalism_Network | CVN ]] project for IRC monitoring
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**Step by step commands**:
On deploy1001:
`cd /srv/mediawiki-staging/`
`git fetch`
`git log -p HEAD..@{u}`
`git rebase`
On mwmaint1002:
`scap pull`
`mwscript extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/addWiki.php --wiki=mhwiktionary nia wiktionary niawiktionary nia.wiktionary.org`
`mwscript extensions/CirrusSearch/maintenance/UpdateSearchIndexConfig.php --wiki=niawiktionary --cluster=all`
On deploy1001:
`scap sync-file wmf-config/db-eqiad.php "Creating niawiktionary (T270409)"`
`scap sync-file wmf-config/db-codfw.php "Creating niawiktionary (T270409)"`
`scap sync-file dblists "Creating niawiktionary (T270409)"`
`scap sync-wikiversions "Creating niawiktionary (T270409)"`
`scap sync-file static/images/project-logos/ "Creating niawiktionary (T270409)"`
`scap sync-file wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php "Creating niawiktionary (T270409)"`
`scap sync-file langlist "Creating niawiktionary (T270409)"`
`scap update-interwiki-cache`
**End of automatic output**