And another one who talked to Gnangarra in Berlin: I remember that I explicitly said that the current standard is to write a new language's WMF project in that language. I had realized that nys:wp was written predominantly in English. I don't think that I encouraged any interpretation that nys:wp could be written in English but I also remember that I had some communication problems due to our rather different versions of spoken English.
Fwiw, Oliver
On 12-Feb-18 15:32, Michael Everson wrote:
I was also in Berlin, and remember speaking to Gnangarra there. I agree with Amir. I did not realize that what was being suggested was not an encyclopaedia written in the target language.
Michael Everson
On 12 Feb 2018, at 13:19, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I remember speaking to Gnangarra in the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin in April 2017.
I say the same thing to all the people who ask what is needed to create a Wikipedia in a new language: Have a bunch of people who know that language write a lot of articles in that language. Of course I also mention the requirements for ISO code, completion of translatewiki most used messages, and expert approval.
This is oversimplified, but the essence in this case is that I am sure that I didn't say that it's OK to create a project in a new language that will not be written in that language. This would be a self-contradiction. Perhaps somebody else said something like this.
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