[Foundation-l] Re: new language policy

Tue Nov 22 08:30:29 UTC 2005

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Anthere wrote:

>> 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.

I'm all in favor of a separate seed-wiki for this...

And a separate translation-wiki for organizing interface translations,
site-wide message translations, &c.

SJ