Hello,

El sáb., 7 mar. 2020 a las 21:32, Martin Urbanec
(<martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz>) escribió:
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> Hi,
>
> I would like to point your attention to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247172. To me, this seems like a bypassing of the LangCom.
>
> What do you all think?
>
> Martin
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I think I agree with letting them have the namespace absent any
technical barrier that would make this disruptive to the Wikipedia
project itself.

In favour:

- I don't think we should be creating new projects only to find
they're abandoned few months after creation, leaving the bulk of
maintenance to global sysops and stewards; because LangCom won't close
them afterwards (inactivity is no longer a valid reason to lock a
project). We already have enough of those in that shape.

- It's also easier to monitor one wiki rather than two, and if
sco.wiktionary is not and has not been able to get out of the
Incubator (the Meta-Wiki request dates from 2007) due to lack of
continuous activity or some other criterion there's no point in
creating a separate project as it'll likely become abandoned or
inactive.

- Nothing makes me think at this stage that the communities of
sco.wikipedia and sco.wiktionary would be different either, as such
I'm not sure we should be splitting them in two different sites.

- We also have the precedent of als.* and mo.* getting merged not so
long ago <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169450>.

- I also think we can set `$wgCapitalLinkOverrides` as true just for
the Define namespace right?

On the other hand and unless I am mistaken, they won't be able to add
interwikis via Wikidata to words in the Define namespace. You can't
add an interwiki to the Wiktionary section of a Wikidata item if the
page is not hosted on a Wiktionary. That said, I think that'd be a
minor inconvenience.

Just my two cents.

Best regards.

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