Thanks for the answers, Pathoschild and GerardM. I know that the process to *request* to create a new Wikisource (and to request the creation of a new Wikinews or a new Wikiversity) have theirs particularities. But unfortunately I'm unable to found any documentation/policy page that explains if the langcom need to do a final word on these requests or not. Now I have five answers to this:
* The http://langcom.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page saying "a clear step-by-step policy (based on quantitative indicators) for evaluating the feasibility of new language wikis, with an automated procedure for project development;" (with no distinctions between projects) * The http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy saying "The proposal is to open a new language edition of an existing Wikimedia project that does not already exist (see the complete list of Wikimedia projects)" (with no distinctions between projects) * GerardM ignoring my specific question and doing a [[Ad nauseam]], followed by some [[Ad nauseam]] answers criticizing theirs statments (my Gmail trash is unfortunately queasy with a large amount of [[Ad nauseam]]s) * A (nice) on-topic reply made by Pathoschild with their POV pointing to a paragraph originally writen by me [1] based on the Wikisource Multilingual wiki policy
* The Wikisource creation policy itself.
Please langcom members, discuss internaly and release to the public if their committee need to do a final word on requestions for creation for new Wikisource/Wikinews/Wikiversity wikis or if theirs policy requirements to prevent a new wiki going to be created with 0 active users and 0 pages is sufficient to make a bugzilla request. And please someone write a few lines to be cuted-and-pasted at wikisource.org/wiki/ explaing about the possibles reasons for the delays on the creation for new Wikisources wikis.
And please, related to the Tamil Wikisource specific situation: why this don't have yet a wiki? Technical problems? Just no one with free time to set this wiki up? Just others than me with the same questions related to the "final word"? No sufficient pages at [[:oldwikisource:]] "incubator"? (if the problem is the last one, the most recent Wikisource, mk.wikisource, has been created with only the "Main page" at the "incubator" and now have 308 "articles" apart the last edit on that wiki is from 27 February from this year).
Please keep on topic on replies. Please. Please.
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages&d... , based on a previous http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pathoschild&diff=n...
On 4/1/07, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
The process on the multilingual Wikisource domain is not covered by the language subcommittee yet; you'll notice that there is a redundant process at < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RFL#Wikisource%3E. The secondary processes will eventually be merged into the Meta process (probably a combination of both, not simply removing one), but we want to make sure that the latter is working at a reasonable efficiency first. As your sarcasm indicates you already know, we've had some difficulty starting up.
I would suggest continuing to follow the Wikisource process, since the request is there. This process is the same as it was on Meta until the reform: file a bug request following community approval, and it might be done eventually. I'm sorry that we can't do anything more at the moment, but we're busy catching up on requests (for many projects, *not* only Wikipedias) that were filed through the subcommittee process in the transitional period.
Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
(This message is not an official statement of the language subcommittee.)
From: "Luiz Augusto" lugusto@gmail.com Hi
There is a successful and old request for opening a new wiki not yet fulfilled. Language prevention/creation committee/subcommittee or whatever/anything else, please forgive the MessagexXX.php paranoia and
see
requests for non-Wikipedias wikis a while.
# [[:oldwikisource:]] have a [[Wikisource:Language domain requests]]
page.
# This page have at least one successful request for a new Wikisource
wiki:
Tamil Wikisource (ta.wikisource) ## This have a large community support:
http://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Language_domain_requests&...
## This have "incubator" pages:
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Tamil
## This have a bugzilla request: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6982 ## The MessagesTa.php is avaiable at MediaWiki SVN repository ## There is someone interested on editing in this non-existing exactly
now:
http://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3A-jkb-&diff=215093&am...
## I've asked about it on the langcom wiki yesterday but no one apparentlyhave read it.
And, if the language prevention/creation committee/subcommittee or whatever/anything else isn't happy to increase the current amount of Wikimedia wikis, I found a good solution: open the ta.wikisource and
close
the ang.wikisource. No, no one have deleted the MessagesAng.php from subversion, this apparently has never created, but you can find a vote
to
close that wiki with large community support at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Old...
Best regards [[:m:User:555]]
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
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