I was also in Berlin, and remember speaking to Gnangarra there. I agree with Amir. I did
not realize that what was being suggested was not an encyclopaedia written in the target
language.
Michael Everson
On 12 Feb 2018, at 13:19, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
I remember speaking to Gnangarra in the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin in April 2017.
I say the same thing to all the people who ask what is needed to create a Wikipedia in a
new language: Have a bunch of people who know that language write a lot of articles in
that language. Of course I also mention the requirements for ISO code, completion of
translatewiki most used messages, and expert approval.
This is oversimplified, but the essence in this case is that I am sure that I didn't
say that it's OK to create a project in a new language that will not be written in
that language. This would be a self-contradiction. Perhaps somebody else said something
like this.