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This wiki is a workspace for the Wikipedia Foundation Special projects language subcommittee. Some pages are mirrored at m:Category:Language subcommittee.

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[edit] Subcommittee charter

This is a proofread version of the charter; see the charter proposal to the committee (local).

[edit] Scope

The subcommittee is in charge of providing:

  1. a clear step-by-step policy (based on quantitative indicators) for evaluating the feasibility of new language wikis, with an automated procedure for project development;
  2. support and policy development for script and localization related problems;
  3. documentation to support new language communities towards a stable growth rate;
  4. support and coordination for cross-language projects, helping smaller communities share resources and maximize their results;
  5. support and coordination to maintain compatibility among the different MediaWiki installations, in order to reduce the amount of development needed to upgrade the program base as far as localization is concerned.

[edit] Goals

The goals of the subcommittee are:

  1. minimize the political aspects connected to the release of new projects, moving the focus towards purely quantitative decision criteria;
  2. minimize the need of localization-related funding and development by providing a common shared policy (in this field the Special Projects Committee acts in conjunction with…from which it receives detailed technical targets);
  3. maximize the reuse of proven marketing techniques among different editions;
  4. maximize the co-operation level among different language communities by providing common fields of activity;
  5. achieve the widest possible localization level for MediaWiki at the lowest cost, in order to maintain and improve its leading role as an open source content manager.

[edit] Transparency

  • The whole set of activities of the Language Subcommittee is public, and any advice from the community is welcome.
  • The subcommittee values the fact that Wikipedias are a property of the single editors who make it and considers users' necessities as the primary source for policy.
  • The subcommittee is especially interested in hearing those who proposed a new wiki in the past and got either refused or approved.

[edit] Members

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