No, I merely stated that I *thought* you were missing the point. Perhaps you are, perhaps you aren't, but you stated flatly that you were not.
I don't think the point is worrying about Arabic in particular not being able to have a Wikipedia, I think it's more of a theoretical thing, that if Arabic hadn't had a Wikipedia, it wouldn't be able to have one under these rules, and that this somehow invalidates the rules because such a major language should be automatically approved by our rules.
It's a sort of test for any language rules. Not ALL of our existing languages must pass it, but some of course must - Chinese, English, Arabic, Spanish, for example, we expect would be considered valid languages under any reasonable criteria.
Mark
On 11/08/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, So it is for you to decide that I did not get the point, not having made that point in the first place ?? Thanks, GerardM
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
That's not for you to decide, when you're not the one who made the point in the first place.
Mark
On 11/08/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, No I did not. Thanks, GerardM
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com
wrote:
I think you've missed the point.
Mark
On 11/08/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi. Given the current practice, this whole issue is irrelevant. There is
an
Arab
project and this will continue to be the case. Thanks, GerardM
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Crazy Lover <
always_yours.forever@yahoo.com
wrote:
Reviewing the requirements of current policy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy i thought in standard arabic language, and the inevitable
consecuense:
this language cannot meet the requirement. Standard arabic isn't speak
anymore
as first language. it's based in Religious arabic languages, it's
archaic,
and it is neccesary to learn at school to understand it. its situation is similar to medieval latin. Then, the consecuense will be absurd: the rejection of any new project in this useful language.
on the other hand, there are several native languages, all daugthers
of
classical arabic, like Egyptian arabic (or Masri), whose proposal has been approved
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Egyptian...
precissely for its native condition.
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