I was quite busy IRL during May. There were a number of things open at the end of April that I need the Committee to circle back to.
The first item is the revision to the Language Proposal Policy, which can be found herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy/4-2019_proposed_revision. As you may recall, the most controversial piece of my original proposal had to do with non-Wikisource projects in ancient and historical languages. But that piece was removed before I took the proposal to the community at Meta. The result was a revision proposal that was mostly technical, in that it codified certain existing practices already being used by LangCom but not explicit in the Policy.
The discussion can be found herehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_proposal_policy/4-2019_proposed_revision. There were two serious "oppose" !votes, but both focused on items that were not included in the proposed changes at all: (i) changing the requirement for an ISO 639–3 code, and (ii) ancient/historical language projects. Otherwise, the community was basically fine with the proposed changes. There were some suggestions for changing the wording a bit, and I incorporated most of those. Since the wording changed a bit, I'd like the Committee to have a look and make sure it is OK with the revision proposal as now worded. If there are no objections in seven days, I will go ahead and implement.
Steven
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