No, *you* are wrong.
It's still proposed policy.
I (or anybody else) can go to a developer and request the creation of a new Wikipedia, and it's entirely up to the developer. 5 supporters is ultimately a Good Thing, and will go a long way towards convincing the developer that they won't get flak for creating the new Wikipedia, but it's just not a requirement and I hope it never is. See "Proposed policy for Wikis in new languages" or whatever the page title is on meta: for arguments for and against the proposed policy, and ultimately the emphasis that it is still a PROPOSED policy.
Mark
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:26:57 +0100, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Wouter Steenbeek wrote:
Message as sent by Slavik:
From: "V. Ivanov" amikeco@gmail.com Reply-To: "V. Ivanov" amikeco@gmail.com, wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Saterlandic Frisian Wikipedia + smaller languagewikipedias in general Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:18:35 +0300
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:09:25 +0100, Boris Lohnzweiger wrote:
Most of these Wikipedias were requested by people who had the notion "I have heard of this language. There is no Wikipedia in it. It
should
be created." but were never followed up after their creation.
That's perfectly right. And that's why I think that some native
speakers should
express their interest in starting their edition of wikipedia
before we do anything.
What are you talking about? Wikipedia has now exactly that mechanism for starting new Wikipedias: 5 speakers of language must express their interest, then the application is discussed in this list during a month or more -- and only after that test the new language appears.
Slavik
-- Esperu cxiam!
AFAIK, this is just the *proposed* policy for new wikipedias, not the current one.
Wouter
You are wrong. Slavik described the current policy for new projects. Thanks, GerardM _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l