[Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod at mccme.ru
Wed Aug 25 20:09:15 UTC 2010


On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:48:25 -0700, 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.
> 

I do not think it is fair. Things have become much more transparent. 

Cheers
Yaroslav



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