On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
To be honest, it is not the task of the language committee to kill of projects. At best we may "recommend". At that we strongly urge the Wikimedia Foundation to rename a few projects that are incorrectly named. This does not happen as it does not have the needed priority.

From the perspective of the WMF and the community, at present, a LangCom recommendation is highly relevant, and where one exists it is AFAIK followed. 

Moreover, there is no other forum for proposing and discussing such closures. 

I too encourage the committee to strongly urge closure+migration of Beta Wikiversity, and deletion+archival-migration? of Moldovan WP/Wikt.
 
If LangCom does not *wish* to process closure requests, it's absolutely up to you to remove that from the LangCom charter and push back to the community at large.  But unless some other group takes up the role, that limits the committee's ability to correct earlier decisions that didn't work out.

SJ


Also, there are always people who one way or another want the language committee to do whatever. That is fine but it does not mean that the language committee can do much more than its remit.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 30 June 2017 at 18:38, Steven White <Koala19890@hotmail.com> wrote:

The community is getting impatient that LangCom is leaving so many items in limbo, especially the Beta Wikiversity proposal.  (See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Closing_projects_policy#This_is_not_working.)  That proposal passed its fourth anniversary in the last week! In April, you discussed this question, and seemed on the verge of approving the closure—but then the discussion was stopped, and no action was taken. 


There are currently four proposals that have been open for two years or longer, and another two that have been open for over a year. I strongly urge you to take action at least on those, lest the community step in and make its own decisions.  As a reminder these are:

  • Move Beta Wikiversity to Incubator
  • Deletion of Moldovan WIkipedia and Wiktionary (two separate proposals) (already closed and locked)
  • Deletion of Marshallese projects (already closed and locked)
  • Closure of Limburgish and Bosnian Wikibooks (two proposals)

I'd venture to say that there is no groundswell insisting on the Marshallese, Limburgish or Bosnian proposals, and you could easily close those proposals as "not done" with little fanfare. The others I cannot really comment on.

Steven White (StevenJ81)


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