[Foundation-l] Allow new wikis in extinct languages?

[Pharos]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>  Having a criterion that is dependent on the English language Wikipedia is
>  not and cannot be seriously considered as a standard. What it considers note
>  worthy is not necessarily relevant from a linguistic or otherwise point of
>  view.

Are you denying the usefulness of the wiki model?

To become a Featured Article, a literature article would have to go
through the very serious Featured Article Candidates Review.  This is
the best process we have -anywhere- on Wikimedia to weed out fake and
non-notable things.

I'll tell you one thing, there was never a Featured Article on
[[Siberian language literature]].

This is just one way for the Languages subcommittee to farm out the
research work, to let an established review process advise their
opinion on these particular cases, and spare the subcommittee many
pages of useless back-and-forth arguments and spurious "facts"
supporting different sides.

And it's about literary relevance, not linguistic relevance.

Neither is there a reason to privilege English: an FA is any
major-language Wikipedia would demonstrate the same point.

Thanks,
Pharos

>  On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
>  > <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Pharos <pharosofalexandria at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > >  >  What is "notable"?
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  Notable enough to have a Featured Article about [[Modern Latin
>  > >  >  literature]] or [[Modern Coptic literature]] on English Wikipedia or
>  > >  >  another major-language Wikipedia.
>  > >  >
>  > >
>  > >  English should not have a wiki? I don't think it's a very good
>  > >  criteria if even our most prolific non-extinct language doesn't
>  > >  qualify.
>  >
>  > I'm proposing a standard for languages that don't have native
>  > speakers, which must be judged solely on the output of their written
>  > literatures.
>  >
>  > This would not restrict Wikipedias for languages with native speakers.
>  >
>  > (Obviously [[Modern English literature]] is notable enough a subject
>  > to be FA-worthy anyway, and it would hardly need to be demonstrated)
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Pharos
>  >
>
>
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