On 5/19/07, River Tarnell river@wikimedia.org wrote:
hello,
the Wikiquote in the Low Saxon language http://nds.wikiquote.org/ has been closed.
- river.
Thank you for the information but... Why, exactly? While I can probably guess the answer, it'd be nice to have a more informative message. Together with maybe a link to some official procedure/community decision on closure - this is a new list, not everybody is up to date with WMF procedures.
Łukasz Garczewski:
Thank you for the information but... Why, exactly?
the deletion was proposed by Marcus Buck (de:User:Slomox) and decided here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Low_Saxon_Wikiquote
following the policy outlined here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_policy#Closing_of_a_project
which requires board approval; however, based on the foundation-l discussion in this thread:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-May/029937.html
in which Erik and others proposed that stewards and/or community members may reach consensus without board intervention, and no one offered any objection, and since the wiki was clearly inactive and there was community consensus to close it, i honoured the request anyway.
the final request to close the project was made here by Johannes Rohr:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9961
finally, anyone wanting to re-open this wiki can do so following the new procedure for requesting new languages at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages
i will try to provide more details when creating/closing wikis in the future.
- river.
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