phoebe ayers wrote:
Because I'm sure the Board will be *thrilled* to
get involved in a
dispute that involves nationalism, factionalism, complicated
linguistics, hurt feelings, confusion about what's "true", and heated
debate and assumptions of poor faith on all sides. Come on. How is the
Board supposed to determine what the best outcome is when the
community members involved can't get anywhere near consensus? (Or can
they? I confess to not reading these threads closely). Our Board
members work hard on behalf of the projects, but they are not
specially endowed with the ability to second-guess the ISO, to make
decisions for community members about what to call the language they
speak, or (alas!) to prevent deep-rooted drama about such matters.
It's easy to think that things would be so much easier if only the
right person was in charge so *someone* could make a decision... but
that is not the way our projects work. Instead, (as you know, Gerard)
people step up to work on the issues that interest them. Sure, the
Board could choose to nuke all the Wikipedias where people can't agree
on what language they are written in. But that's not so much of a
solution as a "please shut up about this issue already!" statement.*
-- phoebe
* Which, I grant you, as an uninvolved party seems pretty darn
appealing some days.
p.s. Aren't some of the wikis in two or more scripts? I recall that at
least a couple of them have multiple tabs at the top where you can
switch between scripts if you like. Is that somehow not an option in
this case?
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well, I see quite some issues lurking arround that involves nationalism,
factionalism and hurt feelings. At the moment none of them are acute,
but on the long run we must be prepared to deal with these issues. What
gives me hope, are the many examples where the communities show their
willing to collaborate with each other and to show good faith for each
other, for example between the serbian and the croatian community or
between the israelic and the arabic community, just to mention two
excellent examples.
Ting