[Wikipedia-l] Policy draft: Wikimedia projects are not the place for national constitution

Tue Nov 14 17:56:52 UTC 2006

Hoi,
There have been projects that were completely removed because there 
content was not in the language that it said they were. There have been 
projects were the people editing were put on notice to improve the work 
because it was disastrously bad. The answer to your question, yes, there 
have been projects that were worse.
Thanks,
   GerardM

Bogdan Giusca wrote:
> Gerard,
>
> There is an ISO code because that standard was made by engineers and
> it has no ethnologue code because that list of languages is made by
> linguists.
>
> This Wikipedia was first edited by Node_ue in December 2004, who added
> the first words in Cyrillic. In these two years, it produced zero
> original articles, but it had 8000 edits and endless discussions on
> en.wiki, meta and the mailing lists.
>
> I ask you: there is another Wikipedia with such a record?
>
> Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 2:18:06 AM, Gerard wrote:
>
>   
>> For your information.
>> http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=mol shows quite clearly
>> that under both ISO-639-1/2/3 there is a code for Moldavian. To 
>> complicate this
>> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mol 
>> does nor agree with this sentiment. So nobody gets it right, not even
>> the organisation that maintains ISO-639-3.
>>     
>
>   
>> We have had our fill with this nonsense too often. Mark is correct where
>> he says that the language is not the country. The Dutch language is just
>> one example where the name does not imply that everyone who speaks Dutch
>> as his or her mother tongue is Dutch. Bogdan your argument does not 
>> wash. When you mention trolling, I wonder when you looked last in a 
>> mirror. Anyway the best you can do is ignore. That may be kinda hard but
>> consider, if this project stinks, anyone knowledgeable will be able to
>> sniff it out personally. Then again, roses grow best on dung.
>>     