For the record, I have also asked user:Axel xadolik to
comment.
Am Di., 12. Nov. 2019 um 17:48 Uhr schrieb Steven White <
koala19890(a)hotmail.com>gt;:
I highly doubt this would become a laughing
stock. This project is
actually one of the best, highest-quality, most serious projects I have
seen in my three years (short two weeks) as a sysop on Incubator. That
doesn't make your questions any less valid; I only share my perspective
that this is a serious effort worthy of consideration.
- Just now looking at Catanalysis, I see six contributors with at
least 500 edits, four more with at least 100, and four more with at least
50. So this is not a project of only 3–5 people.
- There are close to 5,000 mainspace pages. Very few are redirects.
Many are short, but even those have good bibliographies, which is better
than a lot of our projects do.
I would mention two points about Jan's 27 September email to the list:
- "Kotava indeed has an impressive text corpus." Is there a
convenient list somewhere?
- I would suggest you consider looking at
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotava. It also has sourcing problems,
to be sure. But this conlang, unlike many, comes out of the francophone
world. So I'm not sure the lack of awareness in the anglophone world is the
most appropriate measure of the language.
Steven
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I somewhat share the concerns mentioned by Amir and Jan van Steenbergen.
What I would hate to see is that we approve a project and then become a
laughing stock because it turns out to be an unserious thing in one way or
another.
Is there some proof here of any of: "independently proved number of
speakers, use as an auxiliary language outside of online communities
created solely for the purpose, usage outside of Wikimedia, publication of
works in the language for general sale", as suggested by the admirable
Language Proposal Policy?
Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 5. Nov. 2019, 13:12:
Any other comments other than Michael's repeated approvals? ;-)
If not, we can move forward on this, but I'd like to hear the thoughts of
at least a couple more committee members.
tir. 1. okt. 2019 kl. 15:28 skrev Michael Everson <everson(a)evertype.com>om>:
There seems to be something wrong with my mail server.
On 30 Sep 2019, at 20:33, MF-Warburg
<mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Michael, are you ok?
Michael Everson <everson(a)evertype.com> schrieb am Mo., 30. Sep. 2019,
21:24:
I support approval.
> On 26 Sep 2019, at 22:47, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to hear your thoughts on the Kotava Wikipedia. Kotava is a
conlang created in 1978, mainly known in French-speaking countries
(according to the English Wikipedia). They have a very active test wiki in
Incubator, with more than 3,000 articles, which makes it bigger than the
Novial Wikipedia (which we approved in 2008) and about the same size as the
Lingua Franca Nova (LFN) Wikipedia (which we approved in 2017). There are
several active users, and sustained activity for many months.
>
> Does anyone have reasons for why we should not approve this project?
>
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