[Foundation-l] 31 august, 20 years of our national holiday "Our romanian language" in Moldova, mo.wikipedia still in cyrillic !

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Sat Sep 5 04:27:56 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Chad<innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Andre Engels<andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The foundation holds technical control over the wikipedia domains;
>> nothing can be done but by the foundation to for example rename a
>> wiki.
>
> A purely technical matter. As long as the community has consensus
> on the matter (and the change isn't just batshit crazy) there's no reason
> for the staff not to implement it. The real decision here is for the
> community.

What Chad said.


Bence Damakos writes:
> Previously it has also been stated that the Meta page for closing down
> projects is useless (there is no power behind it, nor is there any people or
> committe tasked with monitoring and implementing any community
> consensus that would come out from this page).

This is regularly said, but a bit harsh.  A fair number of people do
care about improving how projects are closed, and work on updating
that page; I'm sure they would appreciate help fixing the process.

SJ




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