[Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia, possible reconsideration

[Chad]

>  The subcommittee does not make exceptions to the policy, so discussion
>  should focus on the policy rather than on exempting particular
>  requests.

I keep hearing about this committee and its rules, and I keep liking
it less and less. Who was it behind originally appointing a small
group tasked with the job of deciding if a language was worthy of
a project? As long as people are willing to get it started, what does
it hurt allowing it to go forward? If the project stagnates, then you
close it.

Hosting a tiny wiki is negligible in terms of server resources, so
it's not even like it's a waste of space. However, what /is/ a waste
is the dozens and dozens of e-mails I get on the subject, trying
to debate minute details of Ancient Greek to decide if it fits the
policy to the letter.

If it's this hard to get a project off the ground, then the system is
flawed.

-Chad

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild)
<pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Crazy Lover,
>
>  The lack of an ISO 639 code for modern usage of Ancient Greek is only
>  one argument, and not necessarily one I put much weight on. The policy
>  requires that a language have living native communities to read the
>  wiki, and that is my personal position as well. There has been a lot
>  of discussion on this list about this requirement recently, but no
>  consensus on any change to it and no similarly objective workable
>  alternatives.
>
>  The subcommittee does not make exceptions to the policy, so discussion
>  should focus on the policy rather than on exempting particular
>  requests.
>
>  --
>  Yours cordially,
>  Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
>
>
>
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