There are several things that I fail to understand despite repeated discussions about this topic:
* What are the particular technical issues that cannot be resolved in the Incubator? The best place to file this is Phabricator. Can they be filed there?
* Is there a clear migration path from the current way of storing the text to true Unicode?
* How does the input work?

My impression with Yair and other volunteers working on this skin has been very positive till now. I don't doubt their programming skill and their commitment to the project. I'm not just being polite—this actually is my impression. Nonetheless, I need a clear explanation about the reasons why we should bypass the usual confirmation of incubator activity. Getting *direct* and *detailed* answers to the questions above from the people who do the technical work on them will help move things forward. I'm sorry, but Gerard's statement that "it is the only way that we will get the technical aspects of MediaWiki right" is a generalization, and it is neither direct nor detailed.


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2016-05-31 0:18 GMT-07:00 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>:
Hoi,

The language policy allows us to be flexible with how we interpret the rules. My experience is that we are not using this flexibility. I made several proposals over te last few years and they have all been torpedoed. 

ASL is the latest example of this. It makes sense to allow for one Wikipedia with SignWriting because it is the only way that we will get the technical aspects of MediaWiki right. It means that issues will be exposed in Commons and Wikidata as well. 

This is denied for no reason that is clear to me. 

I feel that when we cannot make use of the room the policy allows us, there is no purpose for me to be a member.. It is up to the rest of the committee to consider this. I hope that we will have an ASL Wikipedia in the near future but if that is not to be, it and the implementation of the language policy is no longer my active concern.
Thanks,
      GerardM

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