[Foundation-l] Belarusan Wikipedia

[Erik Moeller]

On 3/31/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 3/31/07, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Nor is it closed; it lives at
> > > http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org/
> >
> > Living in a vegetative, comatose fashio, though. The database is locked.
>
> It shouldn't be. I'll try to figure out what's going on there.

Ah, apparently a misunderstanding; Brion thought a move to "be-x-old"
was meant to imply that it is an archive of the existing Wikipedia.
The "old" refers to the orthography, not the wiki.

I have asked him to remove the lockfile; both wikis should be editable
now. Mind you, it might be a good idea to merge them, to kill one of
them, or whatever. This is for the community to work out, and I'm not
going to have us impose a preference for any solution.

For now, the only thing we have authorized the LangCom to decide is
what the language codes for the respective versions should be if they
are to be separate. *Not* to close or lock wikis. That is not within
the authority of the LangCom.
-- 
Peace & Love,
Erik

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