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

[Mark Williamson]

We've been over this before.

No matter how ridiculous the rules are, they're rules. If you have any
idea about how to budge the Language Committee, I'm all ears.

While I don't personally support Simple English projects, and I don't
know that a Latin Wikinews would be useful, I certainly don't think we
should have any rule against the latter - it has an ISO code and we
already have a Wikipedia in Latin (although it is not as "successful"
as some here like to claim, they're certainly working on it).

I hope nobody mistakes my posts earlier in this thread for my personal
opinion, because they are not. I was stating the rules as they exist
and as they have been interpreted by the language committee.

Mark

2008/6/20 Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>:
> 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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