On Jan 3, 2008 1:03 PM, Don Osborn dzo@bisharat.net wrote:
Greetings and Happy New Year 2008 to all!
This year has been declared by the UN as "International Year of Languages."* What exactly that will mean depends in part on what UNESCO - which is charged with coordinating the Year - and in part on what various groups and individuals dealing with languages and linguistics decide to make of it.
I would like to propose that Wikimedia - which is in many ways on the cutting edge of multilingual exploitation of the potential of the web, but which has some language projects slated for deletion after a period of being "closed" (which I understand also means being placed in an "incubator" status) - declare for the duration of the IYL (2008) a moratorium on deletion of language projects.
The moratorium period would also be used to discuss (and implement) new means to save and develop projects in incubator status, which may involve any of the following and more:
I agree on this. Perhaps one year is enough time to settle the "wikicouncil" to work on thath subjects.