Hoi,
A new language does not need to start with a Wikipedia. There was at some
stage an NGO who was willing to give content to the Wikimedia Foundation for
a language that we do not support at this moment. In this instance it would
have been a Wikibook. It could have been appropriate for Wikisource.
So no, I am not mistaken. What I described is that when a new language
starts, the requirements for a new language still apply. Your suggestion was
about new Wikisource projects. You did not consider new languages starting
in Wikisource. This is why I made my remark.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6/5/07, Dovi Jacobs <dovijacobs(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Gerard, I think you may be confusing an entirely new Wikimedia language
with a new project (WIkiversity, Wikisource) in an existing language.
I was talking about the latter (e.g. a new Wikiversity in Arabic).
Actually, the confusion may have been my fault, because I mistakenly gave
Wikipedia as an example in my previous post.
So to be absolutely clear, my suggestion had nothing to do with the
process of sanctioning entirely new languages, but rather to host new
test-projects for
existing languages at project-specific incubator wikis (like Wikiversity
and
Wikisource).
Dovi Jacobs
> Everybody assumes that Wikipedia is to be the
first project to
introduce a new language. This is however not a given. When a new
language
is introduced for Wikisource, the requirements for a new language still
apply. Particularly the language is to be approved to conform to what is
considered to be that language.
>Consequently, when a new language is to be
started first in Wikisource,
the
requirements are not waived. What can be discussed is to host it in
Wikisource... However it would NOT be an approved language nor an approved
project until it meets the requirements as specified by the language
committee. This is not something that can be voted on.
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