MF-Warburg wrote: "Let's not forget that the creation of new wikis is stalled at
the moment for technical reasons. My motivation to advance approvals is not very high due
to it, since I dislike approving projects which are active at a time, but might not still
be active later when the technical issues are resolved but are then created
nevertheless."
Is that still not resolved? I thought creation of Neapolitan Wikisource showed we were
moving past that. (Of course, I thought that about Western Armenian Wikipedia, too.)
Also: It's a very bad problem when the projects become inactive expressly because
their communities see us as incapable of creating their wikis, so the communities throw up
their hands and go home. It's not because they don't care about this, but because
they feel that if they will never get anywhere, they might as well not waste more time.
And it's our fault, not theirs. As Marcos Williamson says, we need to find a middle
ground between protecting against hoax and empowering these communities. My original
proposal here was intended to give us time to do due diligence, but not unlimited time.
Time is fair; unlimited time is not. And to those who complained that I was setting
arbitrary time limits, I would respond that I was setting time limits. Any time limit is
arbitrary at one level, but there needs to be something compelling LangCom to act instead
of to sit on its hands, which has happened a lot recently.
MF-W, once the technical issues are resolved, I plan to allow the communities closest to
"ready", if they have gone inactive, to be considered active again as soon as
they have a single month with three active users at 10+ edits. Making them wait another
three months is just rubbing salt in the wound.
Steven
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