I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they need wider discussion for concluding them.
One of such requests is for multilingual Wikinews [2]. Please, discuss here (at foundation-l; I am sending this message to wikinews-l to poke those who are not at foundation-l) or on wiki at the page [2].
[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_multiling...
The proposal in this instance seems to be for merging all of the Wikinews language editions into one mega-project, which seems to me an exceedingly radical and perhaps counterproductive step.
Thanks, Pharos
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they need wider discussion for concluding them.
One of such requests is for multilingual Wikinews [2]. Please, discuss here (at foundation-l; I am sending this message to wikinews-l to poke those who are not at foundation-l) or on wiki at the page [2].
[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_multiling...
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they need wider discussion for concluding them.
One of such requests is for multilingual Wikinews [2]. Please, discuss here (at foundation-l; I am sending this message to wikinews-l to poke those who are not at foundation-l) or on wiki at the page [2].
[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages [2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_multiling...
The request has been rejected as invalid. The explanation for rejection is below:
According to the Language proposal policy, Language committee may approve just a project which intends to be written in one language. Thus, this proposal is invalid. If you want to create multilingual Wikinews, please create a page Multilingual Wikinews and start discussion about the idea at wikinews-l. --Millosh 06:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
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