Comment from wikisource.org.

Last summer there was a surprizing creating of some 19 new subdomains of Wikisource without discussing it on the pages of the multilingual wikisource. It turned out, that the most of the new subdomains are dead up to today (see http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium/Archives/Jan_2006_-_Dec_2006#To_subdomain_or_not_to_subdomain_:-.29). Then we made a proposal for new rules and decided, when we shall recommend a creation of a new subdomain to avoid that. As in the past, the decision for support should be made on the multilingual wikisource as the admins there have a great experience with the languages and know how they work.

Therefore I was very glad that Luiz Augusto helped me to clear the question of the Tamil subdomain: the request is very very old, and there is the danger, that the users will loose their interest after waiting for more then half a year.

There has been no notice about a change of the policy concerning Wikisource on the pages of the multilingual Wikisource. There fore the news are a bit surprizing for me. But nevertheless, I will support any sollution which will guarantee that there will be created subdomains which do not work. But it must be clear which sollution it is. I will try to discuss this with orher admins and hope to get some help from the others.

-jkb-

----- Original Message -----

From: Luiz Augusto

Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 1:39 AM

Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] [Foundation-l] A successful request not yetfulfilled (was Language Prevention Committee created)

On 4/1/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) <pathoschild@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

The developers usually want approval by the subcommittee or the board
before creating a new language subdomain. The language subcommittee
has developed the language proposal policy
< http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:LPP> to provide a clear
step-by-step policy on getting approval, but the Wikisource creation
policy is not equivalent.

Unfortunately, this means that most or all requests on the
multilingual Wikisource do not fit the requirements and will need to
be re-opened under the language proposal policy, in particular
regarding the use of arguments rather than simple votes.

Fortunately, the existence of an active test project (whether on the
incubator or the multilingual Wikisource) will mean that the request
can be fast-tracked if there are insufficient arguments against in the
new request. Requests for more projects in a language already
established in another project can be fast-tracked even further.

I apologize for the delay and inconvenience; once the new process is
fully settled in there should be much less hassle.

Yours cordially,
Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)

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