[Foundation-l] How to dismantle a language committee

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
As I have been saying before, the language committee works on the basis that
if only one person objects, something does not move forward. Many subjects
are raised on our mailing list where people are notified that something is
going to be done and when nobody objects within a certain time frame, the
proposal is moved forward.
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/1/11 Muhammad Alsebaey <shipmaster at gmail.com>

> So Based on the the Archives Jesse and Casey graciously provided the link
> to, the only discussion about Masry I found was:
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_subcommittee/Archives/2008-07#Wikipedia_Egyptian_Arabic
>
> When I raised the issue of Masry on this mailing list, raising what I
> thought was valid concerns, and at the same times others were raising such
> concerns on meta, Gerard's response was, and I quote:
>
> I have indicated that the language
> > committee was unanimous in deciding that the Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia
> > request was eligible.
> >
>
> As indicated earlier, all members of the language
> > committee were explicitly asked to consider the issue that you raise. The
> > consequence of this is that in my opinion you refuse people the freedom
> to
> > work on a project in their language, languages that are eligible under
> the
> > language policy of the WMF.
> >
> >
> Per above link, I see a discussion only between two members (Gerard and
> Jon). I am pretty confused how did that constitute a 'unanimous decision'.
> Wouldn't that be a gross mis-characterization?
>
> Wouldn't refusal to point me to archived discussion *then*
> mis-characterizing what really happened on the list be grounds for some
> kind
> of audit?
>
> Forgive me If I am wrong, but that is the only information I have to work
> on, if I am wrong, I apologize to Gerard.
>
> Best Regards,
> Muhammad Alsebaey
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