Hi,
now that we're about to move demo.wikinews.org to en.wikinews.org, we have to think about a procedure for setting up other language domains. If any decision on this matter has already been made by the Board, please let me know.
It should be noted that on two of the language voting pages, no majority was reached on starting the project. These are French and Chinese. Others had very small participation.
In the original proposal, I suggested that Wikinews can be set up in any accepted Wikimedia project language where there is at least one interested participant, and that 4 more regulars are required for the language to be recognized as "official", and for the firsts sysops to be created.
I would like to ask the Board if this procedure is acceptable.
If it is not, one possible alternative would be to immediately set up language domains for any language where there are more than 10 votes on the respective voting page on Meta, and more than 50% in favor. This would currently mean Japanese and German. The vote could be re-opened, and kept open permanently.
In any case, I would ask for the immediate authorization of de.wikinews.org, as there was overwhelming support on the German voting page for starting the project, there has been some German press coverage on it, and there is already much interest on the German mailing list.
Regards,
Erik