Hoi,
If the WMF is of the opinion that the Language committee is relevant
separate from its role as the gatekeeper for new languages and projects, it
would help when the name changes necessary to comply fully with standards
is honoured. The language committee is unanimous in its longstanding wish
for this to happen.
Another aspect of the deletion etc of projects is that the feasibility of
merging has never been technically assessed as far as I am aware, There is
a chance for templates existing in projects to interfere with existing
stuff in the Incubator. It is also not clear what happens to the interwiki
links. A long held wish is that Incubator is supported for its existing
languages in Wikidata. My personal argument is that the links to all kinds
of other statements represent links and information that could be in the
stub for the article they are writing.
Many of the arguments about the deletion of projects like Moldovan have a
long history. I do understand why the Language committee could play a role
because it has always been fairly separate from what community members have
for an opinion. When other members of the LC chime in, we may do something.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1 July 2017 at 05:13, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)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(a)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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