[Foundation-l] Re: new language policy

Tue Nov 22 00:26:36 UTC 2005

Walter van Kalken wrote:

> Anthere wrote:
>
>> then, I suppose you would rather support the idea of letting new 
>> languages develop on a seed wiki... and see to which point it is 
>> viable ?
>>
>> This still raise the issue of "when do we consider a language should 
>> be removed from the seed wiki and put in the live wiki" (even though 
>> the entire content might be a hoax :-)) ?
>>
>> Ant 
>
> Why do it difficult with seedwiki's. Give languages a chance on a real 
> wiki for say three months. If they haven't created 100 articles of 
> some length by then (so not 1 line, but lets say approx 10 lines at 
> least) we lock them. Also make a requirement that a new language has 
> one "adopter" an experienced wikipedian that regardless if he speaks 
> the language or not will guide the new wikipedians on the pad of NPOV 
> etc. And who will be a preliminary admin so he will be able to kick 
> vandalism. 

How can a person recognize POV behaviour if he doesn't at least have a 
basic reading knowledge of the language?

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