[Foundation-l] Please REJECT the latin wikinews project. inmediatly

Thu Jun 19 22:14:54 UTC 2008

Because according to the language policy, we cannot have new projects
in ancient languages.

Mark

2008/6/19 Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>:
> We have a Latin Wikipedia that is alive and well, and proceeding quite
> nicely. Why would we reject the Latin Wikinews?
>
> -Dan
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Jean Paul montaigne <
> hundredaffaire at live.com> wrote:
>
>> there is a request to a new project of wikinews in latin:
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Latina
>>
>> accordying to the new policy: only wikisource is allowed in ancient,
>> classical, historical, extinct or dead languages.
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy
>>
>> and now, the language committee is competent in the request of new
>> projects.
>> such as recently reject the project of wikinews in simple english, for the
>> currently policy, of course, (in this case for not having a valid ISO
>> code).
>>
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikinews_Simple_Engli
>> sh
>>
>> and, now, please apply the rules and reject the latin wikinews project.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Jean Paul Montaigne
>>
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