[Foundation-l] A proposal for new language creation

[ilooy]

2005/11/22, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>:
> In my last email, I detailed some of the broad principles that we follow
> (or should follow) in the creation of new language editions of
> Wikipedia, and in this email I will sketch a basic proposal for a
> solution to our problems in this area.
>
> [...]
> Therefore, I propose that we have a two-tier system and a formal
> committee formed of experts (or some outside language standards body if
> we can find one which is suitable) which will declare if a proposed
> language is an actual language or merely a dialect.  This committee will
> issue for us an advisory opinion.  We are not required, as a community,
> to follow the advisory opinion, but the advisory opinion will set a
> differential threshold for creation.

Hi Jimbo,
I appreciate your willingness to help
solve the problems with new language
wiki creation and also applaud your
commitment to supporting minority
languages, such as those in Europe
like Cornish that you mentioned. I
too feel that culturally these minority
languages are a worthwhile addition
to Wikipedia.

I'd like to suggest that taking into
consideration ISO codes or SIL
codes may be one solution. This
would mean that an outside group
which is well established and has
looked into the matter has deemed
a certain language important enough
to be assigned a separate code.

In the case of Andalusian which I
mentioned in a previous post this
situation would result in it not being
open for consideration since it does
not yet have it's own ISO or SIL code.
I would see this as a fair situation,
although I'd want the Andalusian wiki
formed, I'd see that the guidelines
would not have been met, yet anyway
to request such a wiki.

With regards,
Jay B.
[[User:ILVI]]

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