Requests for new languages/Wikibooks Latvian

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Latvian Wikibooks[edit]

main page Requests for new languages (Wikibooks Latvian)
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Proposal summary
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  • Number of speakers: 1.5 million (WorldWide)
  • Location speaked: Latvia (offical), Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA

Arguments[edit]

  • The project was closed despite there being minor opposition to the move [1]. I will repeat once again what I said back then - we didn`t know the project existed, some time should have been given for project to develop. A project can`t develop, if potential contributors know that it might be closed any minute. Despite that many people acctualy started to contribute (including several who did not vote). And I strongly feel that vote on closure should have been closed as irrelevant once people started to contribute - the original reason for closing was that there was no content, now there is content, that no one can edit anymore - no gain to anyone. ~~Xil...(talk) 05:32, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
  • Latvian Wiktionary has revived recently and I believe the same would happen to Latvian Wikibooks as long as there would be at least one strong editor. Time permitting, I'm also willing to contribute to the project. --Marozols 13:21, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
  • I agree that Latvian Wikibook would be useful. Because there is very many Latvian people who could contribute to the project.--Edgars2007 22:45, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
  • *'Support'Support per above--Andrijko Z. 16:30, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Other discussion[edit]

  • The request is eligible, please go to Translatewiki and make the first three columns for Latvian 100%. --Millosh 16:08, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
    • I think many people want to contribute to this project and so do I. Could it be possible to speed up the acceptance of this project? As you can see, this project is already created and it just need steward that can unblock it. --GreenZeb (talk) 21:22, 4 October 2010 (UTC)