[Foundation-l] Setting up Wikinews languages

[Erik Moeller]

Hi,

now that we're about to move demo.wikinews.org to en.wikinews.org, we have  
to think about a procedure for setting up other language domains. If any  
decision on this matter has already been made by the Board, please let me  
know.

It should be noted that on two of the language voting pages, no majority  
was reached on starting the project. These are French and Chinese. Others  
had very small participation.

In the original proposal, I suggested that Wikinews can be set up in any  
accepted Wikimedia project language where there is at least one interested  
participant, and that 4 more regulars are required for the language to be  
recognized as "official", and for the firsts sysops to be created.

I would like to ask the Board if this procedure is acceptable.

If it is not, one possible alternative would be to immediately set up  
language domains for any language where there are more than 10 votes on  
the respective voting page on Meta, and more than 50% in favor. This would  
currently mean Japanese and German. The vote could be re-opened, and kept  
open permanently.

In any case, I would ask for the immediate authorization of  
de.wikinews.org, as there was overwhelming support on the German voting  
page for starting the project, there has been some German press coverage  
on it, and there is already much interest on the German mailing list.

Regards,

Erik