On 06/21/2011 12:25 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
Thanks for the detailed response. :-)
Milos Rancic wrote:
As usual, discussion would be held on Meta. If there are serious arguments against creation of Simple French Wikipedia, we would consider them, of course. However, "arguments" like "I don't like simple projects" won't be counted.
Well, I'm sure some of them would say that in French; would that help? ;-)
I do wonder if arguments such as "Wikimedia should not be in the business of making simplified language-versions of projects" would be counted.
There is one more thing in which I agree with Michael...
As he is in the group which creates BCP 47 language subtags, I told to him that we should get generic subtags for simple languages. His response was that we should think about it when the time comes, not before.
I think that we will wait for some time, maybe even long, before we get a valid request for Simple French Wikipedia. When that time comes, we'll think about details.
I mean, there are other things to be done and we've already spent a lot of time in it. The only reason why we've done so is to normalize the situation. I started with the position "we should recommend to the Board to close all simple projects" during the Berlin meeting. However, normalization went into other direction and I am fine with it, too.