One addition which I missed while writing the proposal: "If particular organization is not WMF, a Wikimedia chapter, a Wikimedia thematic organization, a Wikimedia user group or any other Affiliations committee approved organization, it has to make rational efforts to coordinate its Wikimedia-related activities with relevant Wikimedia organizations operating on particular territory."
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Oliver Stegen oliver_stegen@sil.org wrote:
+1
(and sorry, no time right now to "fix the English" of the statement)
On 08-Feb-17 02:13, Milos Rancic wrote:
Gerard and I were talking today about this issue. Here is the proposal to be added into the LPP if accepted. Gerard's parts are related to the traditional LangCom requirements, my parts are about the organizations. Feel free to fix my English, add whatever you think it's important for the amendment itself etc. (Asaf, Carlos, you are encouraged to give your input in relation to the organizational part.)
Note that this proposal assumes that both Wikimedia and non-Wikimedia organizations would be able to propose a project for fast approval.
Fast approval assumes that the Language committee would approve previously eligible first Wikimedia project in particular language under certain conditions without necessity for the project to pass the process inside of Incubator (which usually lasts at least six months, but likely a couple of years).
The main condition for fast approval is officially expressed support by particular organization, which would guarantee that the project would be viable for the next two years.
Organization has to have the following attributes:
- Officially incorporated organization inside of the country where
significant population of speakers of the target language live.
- Annual and strategic plan.
- Track record of successfully finished projects.
- Commitment to transparent work.
To do that, organization has to do the following:
- Translate 500 most common MediaWiki messages in the target language
to immediately show its commitment. (NOTE: I think that few hours of translation job is reasonable immediate requirement; we could discuss about it.)
- Present to the Language committee the proposal for the project. That
could be a program of editathons in particular area, targeting speakers of one or more languages without any Wikimedia project.
- Give formal guarantee that the Wikimedia-related work with
particular linguistic group will last at least two years.
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