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

[Dan Rosenthal]

Agreed, and it's made especially strong in the light that in both Latin and
Simple English, we already have projects online and running (Simple
Wikipedia and Latin Wikipedia, for example). If the currently running
projects are acceptable, why should we be barring new projects in those
languages? It's just ridiculous bureaucracy that we shouldn't be having to
deal with. We shouldn't have rules just for the sake of rules.

-Dan
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >>
>
>
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Dan Rosenthal