I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they need wider discussion for concluding them.
One of such requests is for multilingual Wikibooks [2]. Please, discuss here (at foundation-l; I am sending this message to textbook-l to poke those who are not at foundation-l) or on wiki at the page [2].
[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikibooks_Multilin...
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they need wider discussion for concluding them.
One of such requests is for multilingual Wikibooks [2]. Please, discuss here (at foundation-l; I am sending this message to textbook-l to poke those who are not at foundation-l) or on wiki at the page [2].
[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikibooks_Multilin...
The request has been rejected as invalid. The explanation for rejection is below:
According to the Language proposal policy, Language committee may approve just a project which intends to be written in one language. Thus, this proposal is invalid. If you want to create multilingual Wikibooks, please create a page Multilingual Wikibooks and start discussion about the idea at textbook-l. --Millosh 06:15, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
According to the Language proposal policy, Language committee may approve just a project which intends to be written in one language.
True, the language sub committee is asked to attend to details about specific languages; we need a similar process for deciding when to form a multilingual site.
People are still sharply divided about whether beta wikiversity and oldwikisource are good ideas, based on which one they've had good experiences with. We need a better view of how the new-language process works for them and for incubator. My sense is that incubator could satisfy a lot of what people want out of Project-specific multilingual sites, with a few additional features.
SJ
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