On 3 May 2015, at 07:14, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)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/