[Foundation-l] Criteria for the closure of projects.

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 11:32:02 UTC 2008


2008/4/11, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru>:
> I am not exactly sure why everybody really supports this proposal. I can
>  only say that if it is accepted most of the minor wikipedias which are
>  active on a level of several native speaker contributions per month, will
>  be closed. In this case, I will be the first one to encourage them leaving
>  WMF and migrating to some more friendly server. As an example, I used to
>  be a temporary admin in Lak Wikipedia, which has between 30 and 40
>  articles, and I am continuing to monitor the project. There are regular
>  contributions from native speakers, but they will probably never localize
>  100% messages since nobody has ever heard of betawiki, and people are only
>  interested in editing  pages.

Well, we all know that people who are only interested in editing
pages, and not in localizing the interface are not welcome for Gerard,
and since he happens to be the one (or at least one of the few) who
makes the decisions, that means bad luck to them.


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