Hello,
Mark Williamson wrote:
I, for one, think it entirely unfair that you guys can just usurp a so-far very successful process.
I think most people will agree that there were flaws with requests for NEW languages, but I think you will find it more difficult to find people who think we had any problem with Wikisource and Wikinews requests.
I think (and this is just my opinion, but I would imagine at least someone out there agrees with me) that you should leave Wikinews and Wikisource be as they were before to process their own requests.
Mark
I, for once, ;o) agree with Mark here. The process of new Wikisource creation is working quite well so far, I don't see the need to change that.
Regards,
Yann
Hello,
We have not usurped anything. Users may continue using the oldwikisource process and petitioning developers to create wikis. Developers have shown a disinclination to do this, which is understandable, but that is their free choice and not an order by the subcommittee.
The processes should eventually be merged when the subcommittee process has been streamlined, but the key word is "merged". The old and new will be combined to keep the best of each; for example, we might continue using oldwikisource while throwing out the votes.
I don't see the old request process as being very successful, however. The Old English Wikisource is being requested for closure (with near unanimity) months after it was requested into existence. That wiki was created despite the continued hosting of Old English content on the English Wikisource, with no ready community, and with no test project. Since then there has been no community and no content development. Not really a smashing success.
* Closure request: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Old...
Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
On 4/2/07, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
Hello,
Mark Williamson wrote:
I, for one, think it entirely unfair that you guys can just usurp a so-far very successful process.
I think most people will agree that there were flaws with requests for NEW languages, but I think you will find it more difficult to find people who think we had any problem with Wikisource and Wikinews requests.
I think (and this is just my opinion, but I would imagine at least someone out there agrees with me) that you should leave Wikinews and Wikisource be as they were before to process their own requests.
Mark
I, for once, ;o) agree with Mark here. The process of new Wikisource creation is working quite well so far, I don't see the need to change that.
Regards,
Yann
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That was not exactly a because of the Wikisource process. It was due to a developer mistakenly fulfilling all requests listed a WS.org page. There was no bugzilla request for that wiki or most of the others done in that batch.
Birgitte SB
--- "Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)" pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
We have not usurped anything. Users may continue using the oldwikisource process and petitioning developers to create wikis. Developers have shown a disinclination to do this, which is understandable, but that is their free choice and not an order by the subcommittee.
The processes should eventually be merged when the subcommittee process has been streamlined, but the key word is "merged". The old and new will be combined to keep the best of each; for example, we might continue using oldwikisource while throwing out the votes.
I don't see the old request process as being very successful, however. The Old English Wikisource is being requested for closure (with near unanimity) months after it was requested into existence. That wiki was created despite the continued hosting of Old English content on the English Wikisource, with no ready community, and with no test project. Since then there has been no community and no content development. Not really a smashing success.
- Closure request:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Closure_of_Old...
Yours cordially, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
On 4/2/07, Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:
Hello,
Mark Williamson wrote:
I, for one, think it entirely unfair that you
guys can just usurp a
so-far very successful process.
I think most people will agree that there were
flaws with requests for
NEW languages, but I think you will find it more
difficult to find
people who think we had any problem with
Wikisource and Wikinews
requests.
I think (and this is just my opinion, but I
would imagine at least
someone out there agrees with me) that you
should leave Wikinews and
Wikisource be as they were before to process
their own requests.
Mark
I, for once, ;o) agree with Mark here. The process of new Wikisource creation is working
quite well so far,
I don't see the need to change that.
Regards,
Yann
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