Template talk:Wikipedia languages

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Edit request for mzn.wp, 24 December 2024

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Hello, Mazandarani (mzn) Wikipedia has more than 50,000 articles. Please add mzn to the 50,000+ list. Thanks. Ταπυροι (گپ) 11:47, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have reservations about this, atleast 32,917 articles of that 50,000 atricles are bot generated. Sohom (talk) 16:34, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit protected}} template. The prevailing practice is not to list Wikipedias where the content is substantially bot-created. arcticocean ■ 09:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request for et.wikipedia, 17 January 2024

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Hello, apologies if this is incorrect, I am not entirely familiar with how Wikipedia operates, but according to meta.wikimedia's List of Wikipedias and et.wikipedia's et:Special:Statistics, Estonian Wikipedia has 250,272 articles. Could Estonian Wikipedia be moved to the 250 000 article section? EestiEnthusiast (talk) 14:33, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded, it now has over 251,000 articles. 164.10.46.62 (talk) 15:24, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Converting this to a proper edit request. jlwoodwa (talk) 03:43, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:23, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can't edit interlanguage link

Hey! I just created the article about Cantonese on Basque Wikipedia but it's not linked to the rest of Wikipedias. I was about to do it, but I see that this article is semi-protected and I can't edit it. Could someone help me, please? Thanks! Makecab1 (talk) 15:54, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 24 April 2025

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Description of suggested change: Hi everyone! so i just noticed that there are a lot of languages missing on this list, most notably the Cebuano Wikipedia which has over 6 million articles making it the second largest wikipedia.
the next example is the Waray Wikipedia which has 1,26 million articles, which is ranked as the 16th largest wikipedia.
according to my research there are over 42 languages that were supposed to be on this list, but are missing.
Thank you for considering my request!
𝕸𝖆𝖑𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖐𝕳𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓^{𝕿𝖆𝖑𝖐} 13:42, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Cebuano and Waray Wikipedias are deliberately excluded because they're Lsjbot dumps with no substantive human-generated content. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:16, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Pppery: Then i guess there are 40 languages instead of 42 missing.
the languages that are missing in this list are :
Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Minnan Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Ladin Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Cantonese Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Afrikaans Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Belarussian Wikipedia, Breton Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia, Javanese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Haitian Creole Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Bashkir Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia
and last but not least : The Ido Wikipedia

also the Greek Wikipedia is located at the 50,000+ article column even though it has 251,513, so in my opinion it should be placed on the 250,000+ article column.
𝕸𝖆𝖑𝖇𝖔𝖗𝖐𝕳𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓^{𝕿𝖆𝖑𝖐} 14:50, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And, for example, the Hindi Wikipedia is also deliberately excluded per a series of discussions, most recently Template talk:Wikipedia languages/Archive 6#Edit request 30 August 2023 as are some others. Some of these probably should be added but nobody here is going to review dozens of these requests at once ... * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:01, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done (as to the immediate edit request). This needs more discussion. Very related, as other projects grow we may also want to revisit the thresholds. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:39, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 30 October 2025

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Change the list under "50,000+ articles" to include "हिन्दी" (Hindi, code: hi), as follows:

Insert "हिन्दी" between Galego and Hrvatski in the "50,000+ articles" section.

Reason: Hindi Wikipedia currently has over 166,000 articles, which clearly qualifies it for inclusion in the "50,000+ articles" category. Hindi is also the third most spoken language in the world according to the Ethnologue, and its omission from this list appears to be an oversight. Other languages with fewer articles, such as Punjabi (~59,000), are already included. This update would ensure fair representation and accuracy. Thank you. असत्यमेव जयते (talk) 05:31, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is not an oversight. The Hindi Wikipedia has been deliberately excluded in the past per a series of discussions, most recently /Archive 8#Edit request 30 August 2023. Whether the reasons for that exclusion still apply now remains to be seen. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:43, 30 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]