WikiLang

UPDATE: The creation of a new project has been rejected. An English version of Wikilang has been created on the English Wikiversity at Portal:Wikilang. Should the project there become active enough and different enough from the Wikiversity, a proposal could be re-opened to discuss the possibility of creating a new project. In the meantime, feel free to develop the Wikilang project on Wikiversity, and also feel free to start Wikilang projects on Wikiversities in other languages. Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions about Wikilang. Thank you, Amqui (talk) 16:45, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

This is a proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project.

Wikilang
Status of the proposal
Status	rejected
Details of the proposal
Project description	Wikilang is a project with the goal of documenting, recording, sharing and teaching all languages.
Is it a multilingual wiki?	Only one multilingual project.
Potential number of languages	The interface will be multilingual (at the choice of each contributor), the lingua franca of the project is English and in some projects the particular language or another language can be the working language.
Proposed tagline	The free language resources project
Proposed URL	wikilang.org
Technical requirements
New features to require	None, only mediawiki software is necessary.
Interested participants
Please list yourself here if you support the idea or would like to help build the proposal and project. Zylbath (talk) 12:49, 30 October 2012 (UTC) πr2 (t • c) 20:46, 17 February 2013 (UTC) Ricordisamoa 06:06, 18 February 2013 (UTC) Nadine001 (talk) 16:11, 18 February 2013 (UTC) Janwo (talk) 18:19, 18 February 2013 (UTC) 129.247.247.238 07:18, 19 February 2013 (UTC) --俺はバカ (talk) 12:41, 27 February 2013 (UTC) urbancenter (talk) 5:55, 01 March 2013 (UTC) Riley Huntley (talk) 07:38, 1 March 2013 (UTC) LlamaAl (talk) 03:32, 3 March 2013 (UTC) Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 10:15, 6 March 2013 (UTC) Kokobird (talk) 09:01, 9 March 2013 (UTC) --Texaner (talk) 08:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC) ✒ Bennylin is supporting this probably since joined Wikipedia Jgk (talk) 13:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC) yoyo (talk) 14:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC) Miguel2706 (talk) 19:20, 21 March 2013 (UTC) Ort43v (talk) 12:42, 22 March 2013 (UTC) Alan Lorenzo (talk) 20:25, 24 March 2013 (UTC) Mahir256 (talk) 03:11, 30 March 2013 (UTC) M'encarta (talk) 01:36, 31 March 2013 (UTC) --Seonookim (talk) 05:54, 15 April 2013 (UTC) Илья Яковлев (talk) 13:53, 17 April 2013 (UTC) Erasmo Barresi (talk) 16:11, 20 April 2013 (UTC) Sannaj (talk) 17:46, 24 April 2013 (UTC) Mirrorhai (talk) 10:35, 26 April 2013 (UTC) Amqui (talk) 21:45, 28 April 2013 (UTC) Stuartyeates (talk) 20:24, 30 April 2013 (UTC) Ralgis (talk) 03:32, 1 May 2013 (UTC) --Travelour Talk E - Mail 03:32, 1 May 2013 (UTC) — ΛΧΣ21 04:45, 1 May 2013 (UTC) Michawiki (talk) 07:44, 2 May 2013 (UTC) Glaisher (talk) 11:22, 2 May 2013 (UTC) Psychoslave (talk) 12:09, 2 May 2013 (UTC) There are a few sites around that does something similar, but as far as I know, nothing wiki-like easy to edit. And most sites are concentrated on a particular language family. Furthermore, I think the grammar pages and vocabulary lists on Wikipedia are not encyclopedic and should be rather moved to a project like WikiLang. --Kip (talk) 11:50, 2 May 2013 (UTC) I myself am fluent in the reading and writing of Egyptian from the "Son of Ra" Pharonic period of Egypt, and am thrilled that such a project as this is garnering approval from Meta. I would love to help where possible. TIM(Contact)/(Contribs) 23:00, 2 May 2013 (UTC) రహ్మానుద్దీన్ (talk) 17:54, 3 May 2013 (UTC) Hydriz (talk) 05:46, 4 May 2013 (UTC) Titopao (talk) 07:15, 6 May 2013 (UTC) -- Namayan (talk) 07:40, 6 May 2013 (UTC) User:Vikanksha (talk)14:00,6 May 2013(UTC) User:Pandeyasish(User talk:Pandeyasish)11:00,7 May 2013 --Cameron11598 (Converse) 04:45, 7 May 2013 (UTC) Gott wisst (talk) 11:08, 7 May 2013 (UTC) I have the skills and interest in investing in such a project, and I would. Iketsi (talk) 14:35, 7 May 2013 (UTC) --Gloria sah (talk) 21:51, 7 May 2013 (UTC) Espreon (talk) 23:49, 7 May 2013 (UTC) I have some questions about what it will be like but support the idea in general --Base (talk) 20:26, 9 May 2013 (UTC) Definitely! FrigidNinja (talk) 14:52, 11 May 2013 (UTC) Luwii (talk) 21:50, 11 May 2013 (UTC) Felipe (talk) 12:43, 12 May 2013 (UTC) Yes, oui, si, woow, io! - ʈucoxn\talk 12:28, 18 May 2013 (UTC) Qwh (talk) 20:28, 22 May 2013 (UTC) It would be a good place to the things that are now done on incubator, but are out of the scope of it. Some languages are too small to have native speakers. Carsrac (talk) 12:06, 25 May 2013 (UTC) It is a good Idea. --Hym411 (talk) 07:14, 29 May 2013 (UTC) Wanted to learn some German. Ready to help in anyway possible —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AthulBiju94 (talk • contribs) 13:52, 1 June 2013. Yes. But can it be more explicit that this will go beyond just a collection of lexicons (dictionaries)? Grammar is far more challenging to document, but a start should be made for extinct and threatened languages. Tony (talk) 10:19, 6 June 2013 (UTC) This would be wonderful. I have hoped for years that Wikimedia would provide an environment for the conservation of both ancient and endangered contemporary languages! Dovi (talk) 08:52, 7 June 2013 (UTC) WikiLang could be used to not only revive dead languages, but as a resource in the classroom for teaching foreign languages. Citrusbowler (talk) 18:28, 7 June 2013 (UTC) Dreamism (talk) 12:34, 20 June 2013 (UTC) This is a fantastic and sorely-needed idea.--Alex1453 (talk) I'm interested in more details. I currently run a wiki for the Korean language at Korean Wiki Project. --Bluesoju (talk) 08:31, 21 June 2013 (UTC) I like to support WikiLang. --Jne12 (talk) 08:21, 23 June 2013 (UTC) Surfer43 (talk) 03:27, 29 June 2013 (UTC) Vogone talk 12:36, 16 July 2013 (UTC) Nietzschux (talk) 08:49, 3 August 2013 (UTC) AHeneen (talk) 03:06, 14 August 2013 (UTC) --Sabine (talk) 05:28, 19 September 2013 (UTC) --AlessioMela (talk) 09:17, 29 September 2013 (UTC) AtUkr (talk) 17:33, 13 November 2013 (UTC) Seems like a very good idea. Lotje (talk) 08:08, 9 December 2013 (UTC) Since the loss of LiveMocha as an independent entity, particularly for users of certain platforms and the loss of many helpful features, I specifically came looking to see if a project like this existed. So I support it and would offer whatever help I might be able to provide. Pandarsson (talk) 23:09, 16 December 2013 (UTC) I support this. Esperanto, Spanish and English could be the central languages. Talk 14:38, 8 February 2014 (UTC) Funtastik!!!--AldNonUcallin?☎ 23:17, 4 March 2014 (UTC) I hope this project gets approved. This might sound obvious but it's needed. John Gordon Reid (talk) 03:29, 31 March 2014 (UTC) I kinda like this idea.--Minimaxima (talk) 15:57, 19 April 2014 (UTC) Sounds like a useful project. --GeorgeBarnick (talk) 20:23, 24 May 2014 (UTC) Quite nice. We can help to preserve those dead languages. Jianhui67 talk★contribs 10:03, 25 May 2014 (UTC) 콩가루 (talk) 10:08, 25 May 2014 (UTC) Seems legit; I think this would be helpful. - Snajdowski 00:03, 26 May 2014 (UTC) Completely support it! --Fpan020 (talk) 12:35, 6 October 2014 (UTC) good idea! -- ViolaVoß, 8 october 2014 --Eurodyne (talk) 03:00, 12 November 2014 (UTC) User:Snowager (talk) 5:02 17 December 2014 (UTC) Bonaditya (talk) 14:51, 30 December 2014 (UTC) Potentially excellent idea -- languages are very large in scope, and deserving of a dedicated project.--Eloquence (talk) 05:24, 11 January 2015 (UTC) Interlaker (talk) 20:41, 7 February 2015 (UTC) IllogicMink (talk) 06:15, 17 April 2015 (UTC) I would love to read about German words and how they are used (such as der [masculine the], die [feminine], and das [neuter]). Hopefully, it will have a built-in translator as an engine (although it might be hard). Gamingforfun365 (talk) 03:32, 29 August 2015 (UTC) Love this idea and fully support it. Aremisasling (talk) 00:21, 24 September 2015 (UTC) Strong support. --Satdeep Gill (talk) 19:01, 30 December 2015 (UTC) To record the history. -- luweitest Would love to contribute! Cahyo Ramadhani (talk) 03:34, 20 February 2016 (UTC) --Samuele2002 (Talk!) 17:16, 18 May 2017 (UTC) 夢蝶葬花@生涯不敗 23:54, 18 September 2018 (UTC) I'm in complete favour for this, though I am a few years late. -- Frzzl Mozart12345678910, 15:09, 24 September 2025

Proposed by

• Zylbath
• Amqui