[Foundation-l] Re: new language policy

Tue Nov 22 09:11:16 UTC 2005

I will send it again as I am under the impression nobody read it.

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. This should
be a commitment by that person. If the adopter fails the commitment and
the wiki gets spammed out of existence we lock it. Also an adopter
shouldn't be able to adopt more than one language at the same time.

By doing this you help a language to seriously start up and give people
in the fledgling community someone to learn from. The adopter could even
help think of a strategy to make the fledgling wikipedia reach at least
100 articles of reasonable quality.

This way we can ensure a language gets a serious chance. If the native
speakers of that language do not take that chance we lock the pedia.
Plain and simple.

Give people a fair chance. Do not make a decision by voting. If there
are a couple of people (could be even one very active person) who claim
they speak the lingo and an experienced wikipedian willing to adopt the
language give it a chance. This is equal opportunity. Everyone gets a
shot. If you blow it you blow it and your next requests will not be
taken seriously!

Waerth/Walter

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