On 3/26/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
You have to appreciate that by having a committee, a committee that spends a lot of time to come up with some sensible policies, they have to have a certain authority because only this will make things move forward. The requirement of the message files has been communicated on many occasions. It is the one thing stopping projects becoming full projects.
As far as Gerard and I have talked about this issue and I understand it, it seems like a sensible policy to me. If you want a new language, it should not be that difficult to at least prepare the groundwork for MediaWiki localization before you start. If you cannot even get that organized, how are you ever going to write a useful encyclopedia?