[Wikipedia-l] Fwd: whom I have to ask for approval of Gileki wikipedia?how find a developer?

GerardM gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 11:37:27 UTC 2006


Hoi,
There are several projects where there are groups fighting each other
because their project was envisioned to be only about one specific
orthography or script. It is in my opinion much better to solve these issues
first and be sure that there will be no such fight in the future.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 9/29/06, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> GerardM wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Many people are in favour of adding Gilaki to the list of languages..
> There
> > is one issue outstanding as far as I am concerned. At WiktionaryZ the
> Babel
> > templates are in an Arabic script.. The first Gilaki word however is in
> both
> > the Latin and this Arabic script.
> >
> > Another issue is that the language is called Gilaki and only Wikipedia
> calls
> > it Gileki ..
> >
> > It would be nice to have these issues resolved first..
>
> Couldn't we create it first and resolve the issues later? Unless you are
> suggesting that the existence of these issues implies that the proposers
> don't know anything about the language, I don't see any problem with
> changing either the default text direction or the language name after the
> wiki is created.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
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