2007/3/27, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
The new policy does not deal with the mess that exists as a consequence of not having this policy in the past. Mark's argument is based on things that happened before the policy came into effect.
And how are these things 'a mess'? That's what I want to know from you. Why does this policy exist? What problem does it solve? Apparently before this policy was in effect, some Wikipedias were created that would not have been created in that form had this policy been in effect. What has gone so terribly wrong in there that you'd rather put the languages on hold than have that happen again?
Solving the mess is what we do want to address .. so far there have been two
languages provided with their initial messages in MediaWiki... We are working on a solution for all issues but it does take a lot of work. For one of the pieces of the puzzle we have been told to wait until Brion has rolled out single login. We have explicitly asked for some priority because this is an important issue to us. I have had information from Brion and from within the board of trustees that our issues do not have priority.
And what are those issues you have to work on? Why are they blocking the creation and implementation of new message files when existing languages happily live on with their existing message files and MediaWiki namespaces?
As it does not have priority for the WMF, we are in a state of limbo with
many of these issues. New languages do not have any priority. I would like to see that the support of languages in MediaWiki does have priority.
Should not YOU be the one to have a priority with new languages instead of with putting pressure on other parts of the WMF to do what you want (and is useful, I certainly agree)?