Chinese Wikiversity is far and away the biggest project in Beta Wikiversity—over twice as big as any other project there. Interface translation is, of course, complete in Chinese.

The stumbling block has been getting three REGISTERED users for three consecutive months. At this point, we have had three REGISTERED users in three of the last four months. Additionally, over the course of the last seven months, all months without three registered users have had two registered users plus an enormous contribution from IP user(s).

Given that the Great Firewall complicates things in China, I'm inclined to try to move in the direction of an approval now. Yet the fact that so much of the recent work has been done by IPs—meaning that it's hard for people to hold the contributor(s) accountable—gives some pause. So I'd like to propose the following:

Let's try to get someone who is a known, trusted user to look over the material. I don't think that person needs to confirm that the language is correct, and I don't especially think it's our business to try to judge quality. I would simply want this person to confirm that this large IP contribution to the project (a) is not clearly biased, nor (b) represents an edit war between different points of view. If our checker thinks there is a problem we won't approve. If not, maybe we can go ahead.

Among LangCom members, the only who advertises at least level-3 language skills in Chinese is André Müller. So if possible, André should be the checker. If that's not possible, I'm going to propose User:Hydriz. There are no stewards or global sysops with fluency in Chinese. But Hydriz is a global rollbacker, a sysop on Incubator, and a MediaWiki developer. So I think he's a reasonable alternative candidate.

What do people think?

Steven

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