Hoi,
If the WMF is of the opinion that the Language committee is relevant
separate from its role as the gatekeeper for new languages and projects, it
would help when the name changes necessary to comply fully with standards
is honoured. The language committee is unanimous in its longstanding wish
for this to happen.
Another aspect of the deletion etc of projects is that the feasibility
of merging has never been technically assessed as far as I am aware, There
is a chance for templates existing in projects to interfere with existing
stuff in the Incubator. It is also not clear what happens to the interwiki
links. A long held wish is that Incubator is supported for its existing
languages in Wikidata. My personal argument is that the links to all kinds
of other statements represent links and information that could be in the
stub for the article they are writing.
Many of the arguments about the deletion of projects like Moldovan have
a long history. I do understand why the Language committee could play a
role because it has always been fairly separate from what community members
have for an opinion. When other members of the LC chime in, we may do
something.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1 July 2017 at 05:13, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
> To be honest, it is not the task of the language committee to kill of
> projects. At best we may "recommend". At that we strongly urge the
> Wikimedia Foundation to rename a few projects that are incorrectly named.
> This does not happen as it does not have the needed priority.
>
From the perspective of the WMF and the community, at present, a
LangCom recommendation is highly relevant, and where one exists it is AFAIK
followed.
Moreover, there is no other forum for proposing and discussing such
closures.
I too encourage the committee to strongly urge closure+migration of
Beta Wikiversity, and deletion+archival-migration? of Moldovan WP/Wikt.
If LangCom does not *wish* to process closure requests, it's absolutely
up to you to remove that from the LangCom charter and push back to the
community at large. But unless some other group takes up the role, that
limits the committee's ability to correct earlier decisions that didn't
work out.
SJ
Also, there are always people who one way or another want the language
> committee to do whatever. That is fine but it does not mean that the
> language committee can do much more than its remit.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On 30 June 2017 at 18:38, Steven White <Koala19890(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The community is getting impatient that LangCom is leaving so many
>> items in limbo, especially the Beta Wikiversity proposal. (See
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Closing_projects_policy
>> #This_is_not_working.) That proposal passed its fourth anniversary
>> in the last week! In April, you discussed this question, and seemed on the
>> verge of approving the closure—but then the discussion was stopped, and no
>> action was taken.
>>
>>
>> There are currently four proposals that have been open for two years
>> or longer, and another two that have been open for over a year. I strongly
>> urge you to take action at least on those, lest the community step in and
>> make its own decisions. As a reminder these are:
>>
>>
>> - Move Beta Wikiversity to Incubator
>> - Deletion of Moldovan WIkipedia and Wiktionary (two
>> separate proposals) (already closed and locked)
>> - Deletion of Marshallese projects (already closed and locked)
>> - Closure of Limburgish and Bosnian Wikibooks (two proposals)
>>
>>
>> I'd venture to say that there is no groundswell insisting on the
>> Marshallese, Limburgish or Bosnian proposals, and you could easily close
>> those proposals as "not done" with little fanfare. The others I cannot
>> really comment on.
>>
>> Steven White (StevenJ81)
>>
>>
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