Hi Wouter,
There are no standards for determining what does and what doesn't get
a Wikipedia. If you are told to your face by Jimbo or the board or the
community or whatever that You Do Not At This Time Qualify For A
Wikipedia, the solution is to start your own off-site "Wikipedia"
using a diffferent name, such as Seelterpedia or whatever, and when
you reach perhaps 200 articles, bring the issue back and the official
position will probably change.
This is the process that happened with zh-min-nan (not sure if they
got an outright "you can't have one" message). People will always be
willing to reconsider when they see an article base of a reasonable
size.
Even if your request is "accepted", often it takes a while before it
is actually created (limited developer resources), but that too can
often be expidited by showing them that you really are ready to go.
And if there appears to be no consensus, start the off-site test, and
then when you reach between 100 and 500 articles, return, bring up
that fact, and people will probably reach a consensus
Mark
Thank you Mark, that's clear, then. Anyway I feel sure enough now to post
the requests on the requests page, and I will do my very best to attract
users. For I think they right in saying the number of users interested is
more important than the linguistic status of the variety-in-question.
Consider all those empty ore barely filled wikipedias coveringclearly
separate languages...
Wouter
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