[Foundation-l] IYL'08: Moratorium on deleting language projects?

[Luiz Augusto]

On Jan 3, 2008 1:03 PM, Don Osborn <dzo at bisharat.net> wrote:

> Greetings and Happy New Year 2008 to all!
>
> This year has been declared by the UN as "International Year of
> Languages."*
> What exactly that will mean depends in part on what UNESCO - which is
> charged with coordinating the Year - and in part on what various groups
> and
> individuals dealing with languages and linguistics decide to make of it.
>
> I would like to propose that Wikimedia - which is in many ways on the
> cutting edge of multilingual exploitation of the potential of the web, but
> which has some language projects slated for deletion after a period of
> being
> "closed" (which I understand also means being placed in an "incubator"
> status) - declare for the duration of the IYL (2008) a moratorium on
> deletion of language projects.
>
> The moratorium period would also be used to discuss (and implement) new
> means to save and develop projects in incubator status, which may involve
> any of the following and more:
>

I agree on this. Perhaps one year is enough time to settle the "wikicouncil"
to work on thath subjects.