[Foundation-l] more classical languages wikipedias approved by langcom and board of trustees.

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Would you then want to have these other projects deleted like it happened
for the Klingon Wikipedia? There had been a lot of back and forth about this
language as well and in the end, Jimbo decided to scrap this project in his
speech at Wikimania. I am not unhappy that this project ....
Thanks,
       GerardM

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > These languages were not approved by the Language Committee and they
> would
> > not be permitted under its policy.. The fact that these projects exists
> is
> > as far as I am concerned as relevant at the once upon a time existence of
> a
> > Wikipedia in Klingon.
> >
> > There is nothing new here; the current policy explicitly did not apply
> for
> > any of the existing projects. All of these projects existed at the time
> of
> > the start of the language policy.
> > Thanks,
> >       GerardM
> >
>
> It might be worth noting that this obviously creates a double-standard,
> and why we have (nearly) monthly back-and-forths about the merits
> of dead/dying/extinct/zombie languages. If said projects weren't allowed
> from the start, then there'd be less of an argument for inclusion.
>
> As it stands, we hear "But those got projects, why not us?" To which the
> common reply has become "That was then, this is now."
>
> -Chad
>
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