I would like to know your opinion about the creation of a Low Saxon
nds.wikisource.org.
We already have a
nds.wikipedia.org (two, to be more precise:
nds.wikipedia.org and
nds-nl.wikipedia.org), and a wiktionary at
nds.wiktionary.org
We then asked for the creation of
nds.wikisource.org at
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_domain_requests#Domain_reque…
Several people from the
nds.wikipedia.org voted in favour of this project. I
then went to
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7855 to formally
request the creation on November 9th, 2006. Then for some time nothing
happened. In December several people from the German wikisource objected. It
was only after that that somebody in
bugzilla.wikimedia.org decided to care
about our request. He concluded that there was no consensus and decided not
to create this wikisource.
Some people from
de.wikisource.org say that Low Saxon is only a dialect of
German and that all our texts are welcome in their wikisource. They also want
us to be included in their project due to a lack of resources.
This now is a peculiar situation:
* Low Saxon is recognized as regional language: see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German
"Low German has been recognised by the Netherlands and by Germany (since 1999)
as a regional language according to the European Charter for Regional or
Minority Languages. Within the official terminology defined in the charter,
this status would not be available to a dialect of an official language (as
per article 1 (a)), and hence not to Low German in Germany if it were
considered a dialect of German. With the ratification of the charter at the
latest, Germany would appear, therefore, to have at least implicitly adopted
the stance that Low German is not a dialect of the German language."
* we have a wikipedia
* we have a wikitionary
* we have a wikibooks
* we even have a wikiquote (which we will not use due to German copyright
problems with collections of quotations)
* but we do not have a wikisource because some people from
de.wiktionary.org
managed to collect a huge number of no-votes.
I think that there should be a Low Saxon wikisource, but due to about 8 no
votes of people who just want all our content to be included into their
wikisource just to make theirs bigger and more beautiful, we cannot get one.
What do You think about that?
Kind regards,
Heiko Evermann