-----Original Message-----
From: Amir E. Aharoni [mailto:amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il]
Sent: 04 July 2013 15:05
To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee
Subject: Re: [Langcom] 4 closure proposals
I agree. Thank you very much for working on this.
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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
2013/7/4 MF-Warburg <mfwarburg(a)googlemail.com>om>:
Hi all,
we have 4 closure proposals for which I would like to propose decisions:
# 1
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_
Amharic_Wikiquote_2
The proposer says: "This wiki only has 5
pages in the mainspace:
A redirect
The Main Page
A page with just a link in it (supposed to be a redirect or list?)
A quote from Martin Luther King Jr.
A list (I don't know what this means, but I'll assume it's content)"
This clearly fulfilles the criterion of "Absence of content since the
wiki's
creation", in my opinion. Additionally the
request has been open since
November 2012. Most commentator support a closure, with the notable
exception of one Amharic user who misunderstood the proposal as
"removing
the possibility of Amharic Wikiquote" and
argued that the project would
need
more time. He has however also not become
active.
Therefore, I propose MOVE TO INCUBATOR.
# 2
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_
Uzbek_Wikibooks_%282%29
This is a clear case of absence of content
(<https://uz.wikibooks.org/wiki/Maxsus:AllPages>, many pages only
contain
one link or image or so) and total inactivity.
Therefore, MOVE TO
INCUBATOR.
# 3
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_
Norwegian_Wikinews_2
This was proposed in the wake of a very long discussion about the
usefulness
of Wikinews here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposals_for_closing_projects/Archiv
e_2#Close_Wikinews_completely.2C_all_languages.3F
Some people searched for an inactive Wikinews to propose it for closure,
with the argumentation that Wikinews needs to have a certain activity
standard to be useful (Even if "no activity is cited not as a reason to
close a project - a dead wikinews project happens to be a different
reason.
As stated by many users for many times, wikinews
has a unique problem
among
wikimedia-projects. The content in the wiki gets
less valuable the more
time
has passed. Wikinews does not produce the kind of
quality which passes
the
test of time). In response, some supporters of
Wikinews started
translating
some articles from the English Wikinews to
Norwegian. Jon Harald said
they
were bad machine translations - maybe you can
clarify?
I do however not know to what extent these translations still go on
today.
It seems like the last recent activity was on
June 10
(<https://no.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Spesial:Siste_endringer&days=3
0&from=&limit=500>).
While this is not exactly brilliant, the project
certainly has no
absence of
content, and from past experience of moving the
even larger inactive
Wikinewses in Dutch and Hungarian back to Incubator, I have seen that
1) the import process will be long and annoying
2) activity restart is of course much more likely, and better visible on
the
own subdomain.
Therefore, I propose to KEEP.
# 4
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_
Xhosa_Wikipedia_2
Closure was proposed for inactivity; apart for the fact that the
proposer
unfortunately did not reply to any further
inquiries (such as whether he
thought content should be moved to Incubator, etc. - he seems to have
thought of a deletion initally?), we all know that "inactivity alone is
no
valid reason for closure". The project can
also not be called of having
absence of content.
What is more, there is some recent activity
https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges (maybe also sparked
by
the closure proposal). So, I propose to KEEP.
Best regards,
MF-Warburg
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