On 3 May 2015, at 07:14, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
I have had some more thoughts on this..
My proposal is to have the az.wikipedia community decide what it wants...
Do they want a Latin only Wikipedia or not. When
If.
they do, there Wikipedia will be renamed to Northern Azerbaijani and they will lose the az code.
No! That’s your agenda. Leave it as it is, take the Arabic out and put it into a new Wiki. That seems to be what the users want. They haven’t said “We want to relabel the languages”. They’ve said they don’t want to mix script content.
When
If.
they want to keep Arabic after all, it is no longer an option for them to deny content in a legitimate script for their language.
When
If.
we agree that this makes sense in the light of our policy, we will inform the board and give the board two weeks to express their approval.
We will then put it to the az.wp community and it is for them to come to a decision they will have to live with. There will not be any other options considered.
The options are”
1) Do nothing. Keep scripts mixed.
2) Keep az.wikipedia.org for Latin. This is a national orthography. Add azb.wikipedia.org or az-arab.wikipedia.org for the Arabic-script version, which is used in Iran.
3) As 2) but deprecate az.wikipedia.org for Latin and make them use asj.wikipedia.org. This is a bad idea.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/