[Wikipedia-l] Re: Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia

[Mark Williamson]

I agree, however apparently there is some reason (which I do not yet
fully comprehend) that we must be very careful with Wikipedias in
different languages. If you create one, I will be happy to add it to
http://www.bloglines.com/public/inactivewikipedias until it has
perhaps 100 articles which should prevent "squatting" (and I don't see
why squatting is such a huge concern anyways, it's still a very rare
occurance and should probably be treated as pure vandalism unless it's
actually in a real language).

So apparently every single language or dialect has to go before the
board and waste their time...

Anyhow I feel that this case is special as it does not have anything
to do with creating a new Wikipedia, but entails the very real issue
of sh.wikipedia, an already-existing Wikipedia with over 100 articles
(though many are inappropriate) that has been locked which may or may
not be appropriate for it at this time but needs further discussion,
and I feel wikipedia-l is the best place for such a discussion because
that way the international Wikipedia community has the chance to
participate.

Mark

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:04:35 +1100, Tim Starling
<t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Anthere wrote:
> 
> 
> > 2 years and a half ago, I fought so that wikipedia-l stopped being
> > the english wikipedia mailing list only and become a global mailing
> > list. I fought so that all wikipedias could be on the same foot of
> > equality and that decisions could be discussed together. I wish that
> > we do not go backward and isolate minor projects and minor languages.
> > It is very important that we discuss these topics globally.
> > Minorities also are welcome on wikipedia and they need attention. Not
> > the darkness of an intl-l list again. We do not need more lists. The
> > issue of whether we want wikipedia to become only a list of 20 major
> > languages, or if we want wikipedia to be also a resource in many
> > minor languages, and in that case what we should do for all languages
> > which are currently non active, is a global issue. It needs to be
> > here.
> 
> Does it have to be discussed here case-by-case? We've made no progress
> whatsoever towards useful principles, and there's been no consensus on
> anything. The Board has been silent on this despite repeated requests
> for a decision. All we need is some sort of decent decision-making
> process -- for example a committee or a vote of those concerned. I've
> previously suggested that major dialects as listed by SIL could be
> automatically accepted.
> 
> There's tens of thousands of dialects in the world, do we have to have a
> flame war about each one?
> 
> -- Tim Starling
> 
> 
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