On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 04:05:10 -0800 (PST)
Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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.
Not that I know.
I would like that we three have time to discuss this
before decisions are taken please.
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 do think that "not recognising something official" even
though it exists is nice
but totally irrealistic. As soon as wikinews exists, then
we could always try to pretend it only
is "okay" in one language, but not okay or not part of
wikimedia in another language, that would be
just ink on paper. For editors and mostly for readers, it
will be there.
So, instead of pretending it is not recognised, we could
1) have a temporary adress of the type
fr.demo.wikinews.org
and 2) have a temporary logo rather than the official and
3) put a warning on top of it.
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.
I am opposed to this. There is little sense to set up a
language just based on editors in this language
supporting the global project. What should lead the
creation of a language subdomain is presence of editors,
not support at a global poll. If some people are
interested, let's open the domain, if not, we do not need
to let an empty wiki prey of vandals.
I also think that the vote was meant to be global, not to
decide which language would be created versus which
languages would not be.
thanks for all the updates and e-mails you have sent
me.who are you anyway?send me
some info on yourself.
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