On Jan 15, 2008 7:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Several members of the language committee are extremely unhappy with Pathoschild's sorry show of doing this on his own accord. They have indicated that they will block final approval for any project by going back on this necessary part of the policy.
Again, there are two parts to the policy.
- When a language is starting it only needs to do the most used messages
of MediaWiki. This provides basic support for a language.
- When a project request is a subsequent project for a language, all
MediaWiki messages and the messages of the extension used by the WMF are required.
Gerard, you acknowledged before that this is unfair - I agree, and, to me, it doesn't seem to make any sense. Why not allow second and subsequent projects open with the same requirements as the first and, as you said, encourage pan-project language communities to develop the localisation process as an ongoing project?
Cormac