On 9/25/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposed_policy_for_wikis_in_new_languages
If you board guys could stamp your approval on that policy and explicitly state I have authority for new-language addition following those rules as Chief Technical Doohickey, I'd be happy to do it.
It's up to the community to approve it. I rewrote the policy, so it obviously has my approval, but the rest of the Board don't see this as something within their jurisdiction. If a developer thinks the policy has consensus, they can abide by it and make new wikis. If they don't, they can tell the people requesting new wikis to go and fix the policy and get a consensus on it. I've responded to a lot of the concerns at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_policy_for_wikis_in_new_languages but there are really too few people giving any opinion at all to determine whether or not there is consensus for this yet.
Angela.