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Mark Williamson wrote:
Question:
What authority do you, Mark, have over the creation of a new wikipedia?
Are you a developer? I don't seem to ever see you contributing patches,
Put simply, I don't. I have no real authority. However, I do know that
I have some sway, because different people have varying degrees of
respect for me in the matter of languages. There are certainly those
who don't trust me at all or who think I don't know much of anything
at all about languages, but I think most people believe that I know
quite a bit about languages but at the same time have problems with
other things about me so they take most of my opinions/advice under
advisement.
If some developer wants to create a Tetum WP immediately, I have no
say in that. However, I'm pretty sure that the Wikimedia community as
a whole will have much more enthusiasm for the creation of a Tetum
Wikipedia if its test-wiki is more vibrant and is in 100% Tetum.
etc. on wikitech-l. In fact, almost all the
posts that I can see of
yours involve some kind of discussion over orthography or languages in
various wikipedias, especially when discussing closing one.
From what you say here, it seems to me that
you're a relative
newcomer. Before the Moldovan controversy, there was almost
never any
discussion about closing Wikis, given that the only 2 that have been
closed so far are Toki Pona and Klingon.
I'm not sure what's wrong, though, with the fact that almost all of my
posts are about languages -- is that a bad thing? Certainly, if you
look at other posters, many of them tend to have areas of particular
interest as well.
No, its not a bad thing, I was just trying to establish why I thought
you were not a developer (in case it turned out that you were).
My point is: on what grounds do you
consider it your job to be the
arbiter of when a proposal for wikipedia creation is good enough?
Who said I do consider it my job? Besides you, that is.
You appear to take an extremely keen interest in the closing / opening
of wikipedias, more so than the average poster on this list. I am just
worried about newcomers who are excited about creating a wikipedia
getting discouraged because someone, without the community's backing,
acted as though he had the power to approve or deny the request. This
came out extremely strongly in your last message to Manuel.
I am not saying that you should stop being interested in the creation
and destruction of wikipedias -- I am just worried about your style of
discussing them.
Mark
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Sincerely,
Silas Snider
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