Language committee/Handbook (requesters)

Making a new request
 Read the Language proposal policy. Requests that do not meet the policy will be rejected. [ Register an account] or log in on Meta. Below, replace WIKIPROJECT with "Wikipedia", "Wikisource", ... and replace LANGUAGE with the language name, so it is for example "Requests for new languages/Wikipedia French".  Create the page with the following template. Make sure to fill out the template and replace the examples. Preview the new page to view explanations for each field.

Proposal
Replace this text with your opening argument in favour of the new project. You can also refer to external documentation or websites. Sign your request by ending your statement with: --~

Discussion
 On Requests for new languages, add " Project Language name " (for example, " Wikipedia French ") under "Open". "Project Language name" 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 newly registered users; in that case, just wait until you are registered long enough). 

Test wikis

 * Wikisource: The multilingual Wikisource accepts content in languages that do not yet have a subdomain (see instructions). Feel free to place pages there at any time; they will be moved to the subdomain if it is created.
 * Wikiversity: See a [//www.wikiversity.org/ list of existing Wikiversities]. Discuss new language versions of Wikiversity at the [//beta.wikiversity.org/ Wikiversity Beta multlingual hub]. For more information, see the wikiversity-l and [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/ foundation-l archive] (August 2006, particularly [//lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-August/009074.html this post]) mailing lists.
 * Incubator (all other projects): See the instructions to start a test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.

Old template
The old template should not be added to new pages. On some old requests it is still used. Generally, there is no need to replace it with the new template. For reference, this is an example of how to use the old template:

Localization
Please see translatewiki.net and incubator:Help:Manual on Incubator for more information.