An idea that I raised during a discussion between the language committee and Wikimedia South Africa was to inform chapters when a request for closing a wiki is made for a language that is spoken in a country which has a Wikimedia chapter. For this I made a list on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_per_Wikimedia_language -- it took me some time but I think it is well worth it.
So when proposing a wiki for closure, you should inform the main chapter listed there so they have a chance to find interested people who can contribute to the respective project.
The list can also be useful when opening projects. If wanted, I or formally the language committee could also directly inform chapters when a wiki is opened in a language spoken in one or more countries covered by chapters.
Regards, SPQRobin
Good execpt some errors.
Italian is national language in switzerland.
Ilario
On 10 Sep 2011 00:54, "Robin Pepermans" robinp.1273@gmail.com wrote:
An idea that I raised during a discussion between the language committee and Wikimedia South Africa was to inform chapters when a request for closing a wiki is made for a language that is spoken in a country which has a Wikimedia chapter. For this I made a list on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_per_Wikimedia_language -- it took me some time but I think it is well worth it.
So when proposing a wiki for closure, you should inform the main chapter listed there so they have a chance to find interested people who can contribute to the respective project.
The list can also be useful when opening projects. If wanted, I or formally the language committee could also directly inform chapters when a wiki is opened in a language spoken in one or more countries covered by chapters.
Regards, SPQRobin
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On Saturday 10 September 2011 05:28 PM, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
Good execpt some errors.
Italian is national language in switzerland.
Ilario
On 10 Sep 2011 00:54, "Robin Pepermans"robinp.1273@gmail.com wrote:
An idea that I raised during a discussion between the language committee and Wikimedia South Africa was to inform chapters when a request for closing a wiki is made for a language that is spoken in a country which has a Wikimedia chapter. For this I made a list on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_per_Wikimedia_language -- it took me some time but I think it is well worth it.
So when proposing a wiki for closure, you should inform the main chapter listed there so they have a chance to find interested people who can contribute to the respective project.
This is an excellent idea. However, to cut down on frivolous closure requests, will you also make more explicit on the page (within the policy) that requests for closure can *no longer* be based upon inactivity alone? My understanding is that langcom has quite a lot to take care of anyway, and this will simply forestall irrelevant requests that cause inadvertent panic, like in the case of Sesotho and Xitsonga recently.
The list can also be useful when opening projects. If wanted, I or formally the language committee could also directly inform chapters when a wiki is opened in a language spoken in one or more countries covered by chapters.
Regards, SPQRobin
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Yeah, I know it is.. I didn't add it apparently. But it's a wiki, so feel free to add it :)
2011/9/10 Ilario Valdelli valdelli@gmail.com:
Good execpt some errors.
Italian is national language in switzerland.
Ilario
On 10 Sep 2011 00:54, "Robin Pepermans" robinp.1273@gmail.com wrote:
An idea that I raised during a discussion between the language committee and Wikimedia South Africa was to inform chapters when a request for closing a wiki is made for a language that is spoken in a country which has a Wikimedia chapter. For this I made a list on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_per_Wikimedia_language -- it took me some time but I think it is well worth it.
So when proposing a wiki for closure, you should inform the main chapter listed there so they have a chance to find interested people who can contribute to the respective project.
The list can also be useful when opening projects. If wanted, I or formally the language committee could also directly inform chapters when a wiki is opened in a language spoken in one or more countries covered by chapters.
Regards, SPQRobin
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2011/9/10 Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com
This is an excellent idea. However, to cut down on frivolous closure requests, will you also make more explicit on the page (within the policy) that requests for closure can *no longer* be based upon inactivity alone?
The sentence "Inactivity in itself is *no* valid reason; additional problems are." has been a part of the policy since the first draft.
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