Can we please have a separate list for language discussions, something
like language-l(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/2/06, Darko Bulatovic <mail(a)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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