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"<i>Project Language name</i>" must match the name of the page you just created; if it adds a red link, check that you spelled it correctly (note that the page cannot be edited by anonymous or <a href="/wiki/Newly_registered_user" title="Newly registered user">newly registered users</a>; in that case, just waited until you are registered long enough).</li> </ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Test_wikis" data-mw-thread-id="h-Test_wikis-Making_a_new_request"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Test_wikis-Making_a_new_request"></span>Test wikis<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Test_wikis-Making_a_new_request"></span></h3></div> <ul><li><b>Wikisource:</b> The <a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="oldwikisource:">multilingual Wikisource</a> accepts content in languages that do not yet have a subdomain (see <a href="https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_domain_requests#Until_a_language_subdomain_is_created" class="extiw" title="oldwikisource:Wikisource:Language domain requests">instructions</a>). Feel free to place pages there at any time; they will be moved to the subdomain if it is created.</li> <li><b>Wikiversity:</b> See a <a class="external text" href="https://www.wikiversity.org/">list of existing Wikiversities</a>. Discuss new language versions of Wikiversity at the <a class="external text" href="https://beta.wikiversity.org/">Wikiversity Beta multlingual hub</a>. For more information, see the <a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l">wikiversity-l</a> and <small><a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/">foundation-l archive</a> (August 2006, particularly <a class="external text" href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-August/009074.html">this post</a>)</small> mailing lists.</li> <li><b>Incubator (all other projects):</b> See the <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Manual" class="extiw" title="incubator:Help:Manual">instructions</a> to start a test wiki at the <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="incubator:">Wikimedia Incubator</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Old_template" data-mw-thread-id="h-Old_template-Making_a_new_request"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Old_template-Making_a_new_request"></span>Old template<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Old_template-Making_a_new_request"></span></h3></div> <p>This is an example of how to use the old template: </p> <pre>{{lc-header|open}} {{New language proposal |language = [[w:French language|French]] (''français'', fr ISO 639-2) |links = [[incubator:Wp/fr|development wiki project]] |community = ??? |external = [http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ai-ia/fi-if/index_e.cfm International Francophonie] |url = http://fr.wikipedia.org/ |project_name = Wikipédia |project_namespace = Wikipédia |project_talk = Discussion Wikipédia |logo = Wikipedia svg logo-fr.svg |timezone = CET (UTC+1) }} </pre> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Localization" data-mw-thread-id="h-Localization"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Localization"></span>Localization<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Localization"></span></h2></div> <p>Please see <a href="https://translatewiki.net/wiki/" class="extiw" title="translatewiki:">translatewiki.net</a> and <a href="https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Manual#5" class="extiw" title="incubator:Help:Manual">incubator:Help:Manual#5</a> on Incubator for more information. </p>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Language_committee/Handbook_(requesters)&oldid=5360676">https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Language_committee/Handbook_(requesters)&oldid=5360676</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 2 April 2013, at 14:45.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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