On 21/11/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/20/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Utterly and totally. I really don't see a case for having removed it at all.
Forces us to do original reseach in defineing what is a language and in some cases creating a written script.
"No original research" is a policy of the Wikimedia projects, not a cast-iron operating procedure for the Wikimedia Foundation. WMF's goal isn't to work on language preservation, but if we have a thriving oral language we try to build a prooject from, and WMF's work happens to be the impetus for providing an orthography for it... well, so be it. There are worse things that could happen, and it isn't some kind of betrayal of our core principles.