I am undertaking several things that I previously announced I would do, because there were no further comments on them:
* Rejecting request to close Malagasy Wikibooks—comment by only one LangCom member is not sufficient to constitute consensus to close a project that has no violatons of fundamental rules * Rejecting two related requests for a Romanized Pashto Wikipedia, suggesting that anyone interested in the idea propose a script conversion gadget to the pswiki community instead. * Changing the language code on the request for Marwari Wikipedia from mwr (a macrolanguage) to rwr (principle component language of the macrolanguage, also called "Marwari"), and then marking it eligible. All the content of the current test project is in that component language, and it will also be moved. (This will take me a couple of days to finish.)
I'd request MF-W, especially, to look again at the request to close the Wikimedia Macedonia wiki. I'm not sure if wikis like that are actually in the purview of the committee, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to close it officially, anyway. But I do wonder if the wiki should be locked until the leadership situation within WM Macedonia is clarified.
Steven
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Sorry for my silence - I continue to be kept from full attention by other non-WMF issues in my life. However, I do still follow this list, and I approve of all recent decisions, hence didn't see an urgent need to comment. Can't promise to be more active in the near future but will pipe up if something goes against my grain...
Thanks, Steven, for your hard work!
Cheers, Oliver
On 09-Apr-18 20:52, Steven White wrote:
I am undertaking several things that I previously announced I would do, because there were no further comments on them:
- Rejecting request to close Malagasy Wikibooks—comment by only one LangCom member is not sufficient to constitute consensus to close a project that has no violatons of fundamental rules
- Rejecting two related requests for a Romanized Pashto Wikipedia, suggesting that anyone interested in the idea propose a script conversion gadget to the pswiki community instead.
- Changing the language code on the request for Marwari Wikipedia from mwr (a macrolanguage) to rwr (principle component language of the macrolanguage, also called "Marwari"), and then marking it eligible. All the content of the current test project is in that component language, and it will also be moved. (This will take me a couple of days to finish.)
I'd request MF-W, especially, to look again at the request to close the Wikimedia Macedonia wiki. I'm not sure if wikis like that are actually in the purview of the committee, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to close it officially, anyway. But I do wonder if the wiki should be locked until the leadership situation within WM Macedonia is clarified.
Steven
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Hi,
Rejecting request to close Malagasy Wikibooks—comment by only one LangCom
member is not sufficient to constitute consensus to close a project that has no violatons of fundamental rules
Sorry but I find this rather innapropriate and contrary to LangCom voting rules as stated at: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Voting_policy%3E and the closure of projects policy decision policy < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closing_projects_policy#Decision%3E.
There has to be a proposal comming from a LangCom member, announced on this list and to the community, and thereafter a voting has to take place, with the Board holding ultimate vetoing power.
None of such steps have been taken.
The decision should be reversed as being done against policy.
Thanks, M.