P.S.: For the record, I've now noted my opposition on the discussion page. Maybe, that's not how LangCom members are supposed to interact with proposals. However, the discussion on mg:wb is not a *community* discussion. The proposal was created by a speaker of Farsi in Iran, and apart from Jagwar, no other discussion participant seems to be a speaker of Malagasy. If you want me to give some evidence of my relation to the Malagasy language (apart from being a LangCom member), I have been a participant of the Africa Union's "Operational and Planning Workshop for the Kiswahili and Malagasy Vehicular Cross-Border Language Commissions in East Africa, 24-26 August 2011, Nairobi, Kenya", so I know something about the struggle of non-Western national languages to get a voice and a representation. Jagwar's efforts on Malagasy Wikibooks should not be treated as "absence of content" but they deserve our support.
Cheers, Oliver
On 15-Apr-18 13:08, Oliver Stegen wrote:
I am also against closing mg:wb, i.e. transferring it to the incubator. I don't read the outcome of the discussion as a "unanimous" advice to LangCom to lock the project. There really is only one strong support for closure, one weak (and very apologetic!) support and then there's is Jagwar, the only consistently active user at mg:wb, who sounds more resigned to his lone stance without support for his efforts. I've looked at the content, and especially the pages on explaining Python (granted, seven sections may not make a complete book) are an excellent example of how to go about WikiBooks in a LWC (language of wider communication). While I agree that *absence* of content since wiki creation would be a reason for closure, I don't see *absence* of content. Those seven sections on Python (I've counted the four pages of Python/Teny as one section) are content enough for me to allow mg:wb to continue at its project site.
Cheers, Oliver
On 15-Apr-18 10:57, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, I am against. Thanks, GerardM
On 15 April 2018 at 10:47, MarcoAurelio <strigiwm@gmail.com mailto:strigiwm@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello. If I am allowed, I'd like to signal that the community advices LangCom to lock the project unanimously in the PCP page, not for inactivity (which indeed is not a valid reason) but for absence of content since the wiki creation, which it is a valid reason per policy to do so. Regards, M. 2018-04-11 8:22 GMT+02:00 Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen@sil.org <mailto:oliver_stegen@sil.org>>: I'm happy with the action that Steven took, including the recent re-opening of the discussion (for clarity's sake). LangCom appointed him clerk for the kind of activity which he brings to the table (and for which LangCom members' activity like mine are too sporadic to make LangCom effective - see multiple complaints over the years). Closing projects policy was revised after our May 2011 meeting exactly so that "closing a project is no longer easier than opening one". In the case of Malagasy Wikibooks, I vote for rejecting the proposal to close precisely because inactivity alone is not a sufficient reason for closure. There's no harm in keeping it open, and it would be more work to close it (if I understand matters correctly). In the hope that this can be re-resolved quickly (and without yet more bureaucracy), Oliver On 10-Apr-18 23:14, Steven White wrote:Look, I'm not trying to make trouble, nor to ramrod my opinions. With thanks to members who supported my approach, I am going to revert the closure of the discussion. Before I do that, I will just point out that I think I have followed the rules up to this point. Gerard's willingness to agree to the closure happened in March, while we were still in a discussion phase. He did not comment afterwards, so I wouldn't have characterized what he did as negating my proposal. I do think it is within my purview as clerk to put a proposal on the table. If I stretched a point of the rules at all, it was to hypothesize that a "discussion" during which only one member comments is not sufficient to establish a committee consensus to close an existing project, particularly when its only real problem is inactivity. But maybe that's not correct; that needs to be discussed. I would also point out to Marco that per policy, the community's role in such matters is advisory, not binding. Whether or not it should apply to this particular case, the Board and LangCom have expressed a general point of view that they would rather keep projects open than to close them, provided that the project is not full of vandalism. So while the community does seem to support the closure, LangCom need not follow the community's advice, although it certainly may do so. Closing projects policy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy> normally does not involve an actual vote; it is supposed to close on consensus. Again, my perspective is that a consensus discussion to close a project that is not vandalized requires more than one voice. If members disagree, then please say so. (And I'd point out that frequently we allow a single voice to mark a project request as "eligible" or "rejected"; I just think existing projects deserve a little stronger benefit of the doubt.) So let's let this run for at least another week, to April 17, and see what else people have to say about it. Steven Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> <#m_4284120631935571393_m_4414387168066765486_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom>_______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom> _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Langcom@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom>
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