Hoi, A new language does not need to start with a Wikipedia. There was at some stage an NGO who was willing to give content to the Wikimedia Foundation for a language that we do not support at this moment. In this instance it would have been a Wikibook. It could have been appropriate for Wikisource.
So no, I am not mistaken. What I described is that when a new language starts, the requirements for a new language still apply. Your suggestion was about new Wikisource projects. You did not consider new languages starting in Wikisource. This is why I made my remark.
Thanks, GerardM
On 6/5/07, Dovi Jacobs dovijacobs@yahoo.com wrote:
Gerard, I think you may be confusing an entirely new Wikimedia language with a new project (WIkiversity, Wikisource) in an existing language. I was talking about the latter (e.g. a new Wikiversity in Arabic).
Actually, the confusion may have been my fault, because I mistakenly gave Wikipedia as an example in my previous post.
So to be absolutely clear, my suggestion had nothing to do with the process of sanctioning entirely new languages, but rather to host new test-projects for existing languages at project-specific incubator wikis (like Wikiversity and Wikisource).
Dovi Jacobs
Everybody assumes that Wikipedia is to be the first project to
introduce a new language. This is however not a given. When a new language is introduced for Wikisource, the requirements for a new language still apply. Particularly the language is to be approved to conform to what is considered to be that language.
Consequently, when a new language is to be started first in Wikisource,
the requirements are not waived. What can be discussed is to host it in Wikisource... However it would NOT be an approved language nor an approved project until it meets the requirements as specified by the language committee. This is not something that can be voted on.
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