On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Gerard, while I personally think ASL should go, I completely understand MF-Warburg's position.
You are the one who is insisting on the strict interpretation of the rules whenever it doesn't affect what you want and it's seriously frustrating to deal with you in that sense. In fact, it's that much frustrating, that you left as the only person pushing non-strict interpretation of the rules last few years.
I suppose we should change something to make things go smoothly.