[Foundation-l] Re: new language policy

Tue Nov 22 07:54:05 UTC 2005

SJ wrote:
> People vote for two very distinct things, in the same voting process.
> 1) Should this language get its own language wikiprojects?
> 2) Should we create a wikiproject for this language NOW, given the
> amount of support it has?
> 
> There should be an ongoing project devoted to identifying the set of
> languages for which the answer to 1) is YES.
> 
> For 2), the voting process should require some evidence that the voter
> is interested and able to contribute on the resulting wiki if it is
> created (to avoid dead wikis).  A fine way to demonstrate such
> evidence is to have a space on the same wiki as the votes (in this
> case, on meta) where people can edit a sample main page... say
> "[[m:Voro Wikipedia]]" and its subpages.
> 
> This way a) proving you're not a sockpuppet also develops the fledling
> project; the contributions can later be transwikied to the new
> lang-project.
> 
> SJ

True...

At the same time, I think editors on meta are however tired to see 
wikipedia type pages in minor languages being developped there. Overall, 
allowing the pages to be developped on meta is likely to be poorly accepted.

Ant