[Foundation-l] Please REJECT the latin wikinews project. inmediatly

[Ray Saintonge]

Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> We have a Latin Wikipedia that is alive and well, and proceeding quite
> nicely. Why would we reject the Latin Wikinews?
>   
For that matter, what's so wrong about having a Simple English 
Wikinews?  The question of an ISO code may be a strong prima facie 
consideration, but it should not be an absolute rule. 

Assuming that there are enough interested people to keep it going, such 
a progress has a clear audience.  It would, for example, be very useful 
for English as a Second Language (ESL) classes where having contemporary 
texts in readable language would be a great stimulus to language 
development.

Ec
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Jean Paul montaigne wrote
>> there is a request to a new project of wikinews in latin:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Latina
>>
>> accordying to the new policy: only wikisource is allowed in ancient,
>> classical, historical, extinct or dead languages.
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy
>>
>> and now, the language committee is competent in the request of new projects.
>> such as recently reject the project of wikinews in simple english, for the
>> currently policy, of course, (in this case for not having a valid ISO
>> code).
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Simple_English
>>
>> and, now, please apply the rules and reject the latin wikinews project.
>>
>>