--- Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
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No, I still don't understand a iota. Yes, I do understand that having a localized interface is a good thing, and that it's a good thing to have people work on that. But I do not understand that it is so important that it's better to tell people to wait for it than to have them happily work with something subobtimal.
-- Andre Engels, andreengels@gmail.com ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
I am a little unclear here on the significance of this issue. Since the languages in question are able to create content on Incubator, what is the great disavantage of them remaining there a bit longer? Everything will be able to be imported with full history. Wikisource has always run it's own "incubator" since the the language split, and languages have sometimes had a long wait before the new subdomain is created. But they didn't stop adding content, designing the main page, or building catagories just because they did not yet have their own subdomain. Of course everyone would prefer to be in their own subdomain, just like everyone would prefer to have localized interface. But I am not sure why it is such a disadvantage to be creating content on incubator vs. a suboptimal seperate wiki?
It might help if those who are on the commitee, who have spent much more time thinking about this than I have, could list the pros and cons of each option, showing some examples if possible. Then others will be able to better understand why you decided on your position, and better clarify exactly what they disagree with. This may something better suited to Meta than a mailing list.
I also think it may be helpful if there were a set of benchmarks on Incubator for each language on it's way to a seprate wiki. That way various languages can clearly see their progress is being recognized and have some idea how far they still have to go to reach their goal.
BirgitteSB
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