[Wikipedia-l] Request for Romany Wikipedia

Fri Mar 10 09:30:06 UTC 2006

Hi,

I would like to request the creation of a Wikipedia in the Romany language,
with the code "rom", the request having already been approved over at:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Requests_for_new_languages/Vlax_Romany

There is a test Wikipedia at:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/rom/

This currently contains 14 articles, some written in the Latin alphabet and
some in Devanagari. The Wikipedia will be biscriptal, with conversion being
possible 1-on-1, but this will be implemented automatically later on.

The interface file is at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LanguageRom.php

The test Wikipedia is also linked from the Wikimedia Romania portal, at:
http://www.wikimedia.ro/
So, it would be time to set up an actual Wikipedia in this language, which
is spoken by Roma (Gypsy) people, and has around 250,000 speakers in Romania
and more than 1.5 million worldwide. The Roma are the largest minority in
Europe, and the largest language in Europe without a Wikipedia.

Thanks,

Ronline