Hoi, There is no procedure because what comes closest to a consensus amount to a lot of work. Work that does not forward our mission one iota. The fact that people vote and comment is not that special, people do ... if they vote that I will wear a tutu at Wikimania and a consensus says that I should, I still have to volunteer to wear that tutu. It is the same as voting for a bug in bugzilla. The votes are not considered so why bother ?

As to the language committee, it does only consider new requests for projects ... if it were to expand its services it would be in indicating what issues exist that deal with language support that would make a difference to the usability of our software. It would not be drinking from the poisoned chalice that is closing projects. The closest we came to expressing an opinion is that we would prefer the content of a to be closed project to be imported into the Incubator. This is a not good for Incubator because they get dead wood loaded into their project ....

So all in all in my opinion it is best to leave these things as is and ignore requests for closure. Thanks, GerardM

2009/8/20 Huib! Abigor@forgotten-beauty.com

Hello,

I noticed that there are still a lot of open request for closure on Meta so I decided to contact a LangCom member (Robin) asking him about how and when the projects will be closed or when the requests will be closed, but I recieved a answer I didn't expected.

Robin told me there was no policy ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Closure_of_WMF_projects ) about the closure of projects so the request can stay open for always.

I think its kind of strange that we people can make a request, that there are people who are voting and spending there time commenting on the request or even worse have stress because there project could be closed but the request will never be closed.

Is there a way to change this with a new policy, or with a different com for the closure, because this seems to me a waste of time for a lot of people, people can stop editting projects just because the think the project will be closed.

At this moment there are 27 request for projects to be closed, ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects ) I think 50% is a easy closure for keep or close. The oldest project is from 2007 that would mean its still open after 2 years :/

-- *Huib Laurens*

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:30 PM, effe iets anderseffeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:

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<snip> if they vote that I will wear a tutu at Wikimania and a consensus says that I should,<snip>

one vote against! Please not...

'''Strong keep''' - We can uppload pics to Commons and add to [[ballet]]. I've heard he has nice knees. [[User:Pirouette]] '''Delete''' - patent nonsense. [[User:NoNonsense]] '''Comment''' - Will the sockpuppet be wearing one too? [[User:GuardianAngel]] '''Comment''' - I have mentioned this in the Signpost newsroom. [[User:Journo]] '''Weak support''' - it depends on what colour it is. Strongly support if pink. [[User:HamNEggs]]