2017-12-19 18:19 GMT+02:00 Steven White <Koala19890@hotmail.com>:

I'm non-voting, of course, so I'm not going to offer an opinion, per se. But, Gideon, I keep hearing "in Berlin". Whom did you speak to in Berlin? LangCom people? Board members? If it was board members, then we might actually need some guidance as to what the board was thinking, and as to what they might like us to do about this.

I remember speaking to Gnangarra in the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin in April 2017.

I say the same thing to all the people who ask what is needed to create a Wikipedia in a new language: Have a bunch of people who know that language write a lot of articles in that language. Of course I also mention the requirements for ISO code, completion of translatewiki most used messages, and expert approval.

This is oversimplified, but the essence in this case is that I am sure that I didn't say that it's OK to create a project in a new language that will not be written in that language. This would be a self-contradiction. Perhaps somebody else said something like this.

I'll write my longer opinion about the case in a separate email.