The activity definitely looks good, so I'm not opposed to approving it, but
more than ever I'd like to hear an expert's approval. It's the usual
practice, but I had particular difficulty finding any information online
about this language.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
בתאריך יום ג׳, 11 בדצמ׳ 2018 ב-17:23 מאת Steven White <
Koala19890@hotmail.com>:
I am proposing approval of the Guianan Creole
Wikipedia
<https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gcr>. It has ticked off all the
boxes it needs to tick off: active community, interface translation,
reasonable number of pages.
The one potential problem with this test is that the ratio of articles to
stubs is low. (That is, it has a lot of stubs, compared to quality
articles.) The reason for this is that the small, but enthusiastic, team
working on the test project kept wanting some guidance from LangCom as to
how much content was needed in order to get an approval. By design, we
don't really have a specific standard for that. In the absence of that
guidance, the team kept creating short pages; it took me a long time to
convince them to stop, and to focus on filling out complete pages instead.
They have now started to do that, and have a core of pages in areas of
specific interest to the community of Guiane that are filled out and up to
quality standards. They are continuing to work on that. But enough stubs
were created early in the game that from a ratio perspective, it would take
the team a long time to get to what we'd ordinarily prefer to see. Now, I
have been working with this team regularly for a long while—probably at
least two years. They feel they have worked hard, but they are getting
anxious. I firmly believe that if this test is approved, the team will
continue to work on the project, and will be able to recruit additional
contributors. I am concerned that if we say no—particularly if I am not
able to give specific guidance on how many "complete" pages are enough—they
are going to give up and walk away.
Let me add: the stubs are not junk. They're just stubs. The team has
worked hard to do the right thing all along, and their focus is in a good
place now. Thank you for your consideration.
Steven
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