Forum:Help on creating other languages for my Chess Plat. Wiki

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I was planning about having my Chess Platforms Wiki (about an upcoming app) to become available in Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Georgian, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Inuktitut (Inuit), Japanese, Latin, Latvian, Low German, Mandarin, Marathi, Norman, Norwegian, Ojibwe, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Walloon, Welsh, Xhosa, and Zulu, but for some reason that I didn't notice or even expect ever before; I can only make up to 5 wikis, so how do I get the wikis in other languages to be created? So why and how are there limits for creating any more wikis besides this one I am currently talking about and the ones I created in 2013? Pyro Newman (talk) 15:09, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Pyro Newman,

The limits are there to try and encourage people to not create lots of sites and then abandon them with no more than a couple of pages - which unfortunately is the current state of most ShoutWiki's (including your first 4). That being said, we can allow you create more sites if needed. But my concern here is how you would create content in all these languages - unless you're supremely talented I doubt you speak all of them. Do you have communities in all these languages or a translation team or some other method?

Best regards,

--Cook879 talk 15:33, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, the languages that I can speak and/or understand are in order of learning level are from order: a basic understanding of Norman, Spanish, Mingrelian (a language closely related to Georgian and Laz), Korean, Low German (the language of modern-day Saxons closely related to Frisian and Old English), and the Yeniseian languages (a group of ten similar languages with only one language with high-level speakers today that is called Ket in most languages), my intermediate and advanced-level languages are Japanese (related to Okinawan, Gaya, and also Korean in an ancient language branch), Walloon, Latin, Afrikaans, and Zulu, my near-native language is Scots (the infamous offshoot of Middle English from Scotland, and I'm possibly the only American speaker), and finally English as my native or professional language. So I would think we could probably create a Scots wiki at the subdomain sco.chessplatformswiki (name the wiki Chess Plat. Wiki), a Zulu wiki at the subdomain zu.chessplatformswiki (name the wiki Ithebula Umdlalo Wiki or shortened), a Japanese wiki at the subdomain ja.chessplatformswiki (name the wiki チェスの次元 Wiki), and a Latin wiki at the subdomain la.chessplatformswiki (name this one Bonus Sca. Wiki). I would like those versions with my spoken languages with their respective subdomains and wiki names (we might have to shorten the name of the Zulu version that is supposed to be shown on the wiki). Pyro Newman (talk) 02:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok, well I'll create the sites for you and set up the interlanguage links at some point today. Best regards, --Cook879 talk 14:18, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Ok so I've made all the sites (links at Chess Platforms), added interwiki links and given you steward+admin+bureaucrat rights. If you spot any mistakes let me know! --Cook879 talk 01:15, 7 March 2014 (UTC)