[Foundation-l] UNIQUE AND WORKABLE CRITERION

[Mark Williamson]

I don't think we want low quality things that are merely
"understandable". When possible, we should demand native speakers.
When that is not possible, we should demand people with a professional
level of fluency.

Mark

On 17/04/2008, Crazy Lover <always_yours.forever at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>  ----- Original Message ----
>  From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
>  To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>  Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:39:49 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] UNIQUE AND WORKABLE CRITERION
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>  >  * what kind of languages can have wikis?
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>  >  any that has a standarized writing system and enough writers and
>  >  readers to form a viable community and audience. whether a particular
>  >  language qualifies depends on discussion.
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> While the basic idea is about right, I think we need to be more
>  precise. If we adopt your criterion, we're going to get disputes over
>  the definitions of "writer", "reader" and "viable". Do writers and
>  readers need to be native speakers, fluent or just have a basic
>  understanding of the language, for example?
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> native speakers, it is no longer mandatory. then they can be natural, artificial or classics.
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>  writer: someone that is able to write the language acceptably?, well?, fluent? that another person understand that he/she has written.(understandable).
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>  reader: someone that is able to understand the language that is reading.
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>  viable: i'm not thinking in numbers. that allows it to function without problems.???
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>  this is not a exact science. accordingly we need to accept some flexibility..
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>  C.L.
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