Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Simple German 2

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Simple German Wikipedia

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Discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Votes will be ignored when judging the proposal. Please provide arguments or reasons and be prepared to defend them (see the Language proposal policy).
Proposal summary
  • Language details: German (deutsch, de ISO 639-1 )
  • Editing community: Midnight Star (NP)
    List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your
    name if you are a native speaker of this language.
  • Relevant pages: development wiki project does not exist yet
  • External links:
    to be added
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Arguments in favour

  • It's always good to think of all people. There are more people who can't really be on the ball with Wikipedia's contents than you can imagine - even among enthusiastic regular WP readers.
  • German is one of the most difficult occidental languages. A Simple German Wikipedia could help.
  • The Simple English Wikipedia runs quite successfull and the German Wikipedia is the second largest Wikimedia Project.
  • A Simple German Wikipedia might attract new collaborators.
  • Projects need time to grow. Better to start this project soon then to wait some more years.

Arguments against

  • German isn't comparable to English at all, so one can't account for a Simple German Wikipedia just because the Simple Englisch Wikipedia is a meaningful and well running project.
  • The emergence of a Simple German Wikipedia might irritate people.

Other discussion