Hoi, Pathoschild is mistaken. The policy reads "The proposal has a sufficient number of living native speakers to form a viable community and audience. If the proposal is for an artificial language such as Esperanto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto, it must have a reasonable degree of recognition as determined by discussion." Thanks, GerardM
On Jan 25, 2008 3:57 PM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
There have been a few mistaken assumptions, so here is a very brief summary.
The language subdomain policy is at < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy >. It requires that the language have "a sufficient number of living native speakers to form a viable community and audience" (this is interpreted very inclusively). This blocks wikis in ancient, extinct, historical, and constructed languages. Constructed languages are being discussed by the language subcommittee, so comment is welcome.
There is already an exception to this rule for Wikisource, which is allowed in such languages (although texts in such languages should preferably be on a modern wiki if possible, like Old English on the English Wikisource). There is a good argument to exempt Wiktionary too, which is something we can look at in the near future.
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) (All messages by members of the subcommittee are unofficial.)
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