Erm ... huh?
1) If you're interested in helping, and have experience/knowledge of languages, then
get involved with the committee.
2) They're getting things achieved - they're fostering the development of new
language projects, making decisions, getting the projects started, and doing this in a
very effective way. Compare this with the ineffectual procedure for starting an entirely
new project in any language, which hasn't gotten anywhere in the last 3(?) years.
3) Please point to _recent_ examples where they've made a bad choice (i.e. Klingon
doesn't count, as that was before their time). I'm not aware of any.
I agree that it's not good that they have a hidden discussion forum; as much as
possible of the discussion leading up to a new project should be public, and i can't
see a reason for secrecy. Apart from that, though, I don't understand these (somewhat
bitchy) comments at all...
Mike
On 25 Aug 2010, at 21:21, Mohamed Ibrahim wrote:
On 25 August 2010 23:01, Muhammad Yahia
<shipmaster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mark Williamson
<node.ue(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I think it has been proven many times over now
that the Language
Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community
oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of
"experts", mostly from similar linguistic backgrounds, handing down
judgements about the rest of the world's languages from their
overwhelmingly European ivory tower. It seems we as a community of
people who care deeply about the future of potential new languages and
the success of existing language versions within our Wikimedia
community have no choice but to watch from the sidelines as they do
what they please.
-m.
+1
Add to that the fact that a portion of their discussion archives is
deliberately hidden from the public as if they are debating state security
issues. So even after a decision is taken, we only have a patchy view of
the
process that led to that decision.
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Best Regards,
Muhammad Yahia
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I agree with what Muhammad and Mark has said
it's a pity that such resolutions that affect the whole community is
controlled like this..
resulting in such projects that really make Wikimedia looks like a host for
childish projects that's
written in a funny language never seen written before in
any respectable scientific book, website, etc..
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