Can we please have a separate list for language discussions, something like language-l@wikimedia.org ?
This request has come up many times before; we now have a dedicated language group, steady traffic on the requests for new languages page, and enough experienced people thinking constantly about language issues, that it makes some sense to give these discussions their own archive.
Of course people should always be welcome to come to foundation-l to discuss this kind of organizational issue, but then it would at least be possible to request a specific type of proposal, to say at some point "it is not productive to continue this thread on the general foundation list", or to ask each participant in a flame war to limit themselves to one post per day on the topic.
These language issues are extremely important; but they involve a small number of repeated stances and counter-stances. There are also many other extremely important foundation-level issues which are not being discussed as much as they should be, and which are harder to define -- making it harder to have enthusisatic flame wars about them -- which should be given their own room.
-- SJ
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Darko Bulatovic wrote:
Birgitte SB wrote:
--- geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/2/06, Darko Bulatovic mail@itam.ws wrote:
Today when war is over and we know everything what
happen and we did go
peacefully for our freedom, you make you self
blind and you talk me
about working under Serbian wikipedia?
No not the Serbian wikipedia. En is not the English wikipedia it is the English language wikipedia. Just because there was once a country called England does not mean that the wikipedia belongs to that country. Instead wikipedias are divided by language. In this case the correct name for the language would probably be Serbo-Croatian.
This right here is the key the whole thread. Wikipedia sub-domains are seperated by written languages not nations. The goal should be to have the least amount of subdomains possible to concetrate reasources. When in doubt we should not create a subdomain.
The question I have is are we going to examine all current (or at least inactive) subdomains in the near future for merging possibilities?
Birgitte SB
Birgittee,
Dont put words in my mouth, it is rude thing to do. As this is not key it is just one fact in the history of Balkan. And Balkan is not UK. And this comparison just shows that you don't have a clue what you talk about.
Darko Bulatovic
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