[Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

[Jesse (Pathoschild)]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:48 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.


Hello again Mark,

The language committee does not work in mysterious ways; it has a
defined charter and strictly applies a public policy which defines the
reasons requests are approved or rejected. Nearly every email posted
to the private list is copied to the public archives, unless the
poster asks to be excluded. Discussions are summarized, to ensure that
censored messages don't reduce transparency. These archives have
fallen out of date recently, so a new member has recently joined the
committee to help with archival.

If you have any concrete suggestions such as changes to the policy,
we're always looking to improve.

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard