[Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

[Muhammad Yahia]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language
> Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community
> oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of
> "experts", mostly from similar linguistic backgrounds, handing down
> judgements about the rest of the world's languages from their
> overwhelmingly European ivory tower. It seems we as a community of
> people who care deeply about the future of potential new languages and
> the success of existing language versions within our Wikimedia
> community have no choice but to watch from the sidelines as they do
> what they please.
>
> -m.
>
>
+1

Add to that the fact that a portion of their discussion archives is
deliberately hidden from the public as if they are debating state security
issues. So even after a decision is taken, we only have a patchy view of the
process that led to that decision.

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Best Regards,
Muhammad Yahia