[Foundation-l] On Arabic and sub-language proposals.

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Again, when the proposal for Egyptian Arabic was posted, I asked the members
of the language committee if we should allow for these languages to have a
Wikipedia. The reply was that we should. Nobody opposed this. Consequently
after a week, the status of eligible was given.

This is all the argument as it happened. Again, this has been said before...

Thanks,
       GerardM

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Muhammad Alsebaey <shipmaster at gmail.com>wrote:

> Of course the process is political.  There's nothing wrong with that.
> > Every time two or more people differ on some issue, deciding that issue
> > requires political interaction, whether it's choosing between the
> > opinions offered or synthesizing a new compromise position.  Politics is
> > not just partisan activity connected with established ideologies, though
> > politicians umbilically associated with such ideologies are the ones who
> > give politics a bad name.
> >
> > Using "too political" as an excuse for not participating in the debates
> > of the day is itself a political act.
> >
> > Ec
>
>
>  Hmm I think I meant it in the latter regard: Politics as a partisan
> activity connected with established ideologies, since the choice bolsters
> one of the sides in an ongoing -'partisan' if you may, the term is used
> loosely since there is no efficient official parties on the Egyptian scene
> except the ruling one- debate in Egypt.
>
> However, I have to say that Gerard already made it clear that politics is
> not part of the equation in LangCom decision, so they dont take it as a
> factor, of course, we will not know what actually was a factor since the
> arguments are not published.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Muhammad Alsebaey
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