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Archived discussion
This is an email discussion proposing the policy to the subcommittee. The GerardM-Pathoschild draft was implemented.


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Jesse Martin pathoschild at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 03:09:45 UTC 2007


Hello,

The language subcommittee has drafted a policy covering requests for existing projects in new languages. We're asking for feedback from the special projects committee before implementing this policy and finally getting to work clearing the backlog. Given the number of open requests, we'd like to hurry and implement this by next week if there are no objections.

draft policy: http://langcom.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy
process: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RFL

Yours cordially,
Jesse Martin

2.

Zuir DJ zuirdj at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 16:59:06 UTC 2007


On 2/20/07, Jesse Martin <pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> draft policy: http://langcom.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy

hm.. langcom wiki is open to anonymous visitors? I just create an account, but I don't know if the contents on that wiki should be readable.

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Juan David Ruiz

3.

Samuel Klein meta.sj at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 15:34:15 UTC 2007


Juan David - This was discussed briefly when the wiki was set up; why shouldn't those contents be world-readable? - SJ

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Zuir DJ zuirdj at gmail.com
Thu Feb 22 15:42:48 UTC 2007


Thanks SJ, I found the page were that was explained. Sorry for that.

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Juan David Ruiz

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Cormac Lawler cormaggio at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 18:56:28 UTC 2007


(copied from <http://langcom.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_proposal_policy/GerardM-Pathoschild>)

Hi, this proposal looks good to me - it's obviously ambiguous in parts (eg. in relation to what constitutes a dialect etc), but it's probably hard to be definitive in a general sense with such matters. I've made a minor change to language - nothing substantial.

My main query would be in relation to new language incubation. In Wikiversity, new languages are currently incubated at the beta Wikiversity project <http://beta.wikiversity.org> instead of the incubator wiki - Wikisource also has its own similar procedure <http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_domain_requests>. This policy requires that a test project be set up on the incubator wiki before or immediately after conditional approval for the language domain. I'm wondering if this policy should reflect the different procedures that these projects operate under - or does this policy specify that these procedures be standardised and on the incubator wiki? Thanks.

Cormac

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Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
Fri Feb 23 20:15:51 UTC 2007


Hoi,
The proposal is for COMPLETELY new languages. I am sure that you do not want to consider a language in the Blah language. There is no project in Blah at all. When a project exists in a language, the language committee does not really need to have an opinion about it. It would only be consulted when there is an issue with the language used in a given project.
Thanks,
   GerardM

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Jesse Martin pathoschild at gmail.com
Sat Feb 24 22:14:22 UTC 2007


Hello,

The procedures will eventually be standardized, but they'll coexist temporarily while we're ironing out the standardized procedure and streamlining the process.

Yours cordially,
Jesse Martin

> From: "Cormac Lawler" <cormaggio at gmail.com>
> My main query would be in relation to new language incubation. In
> Wikiversity, new languages are currently incubated at the beta
> Wikiversity project <http://beta.wikiversity.org> instead of the
> incubator wiki - Wikisource also has its own similar procedure
> <http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Language_domain_requests>. This
> policy requires that a test project be set up on the incubator wiki
> before or immediately after conditional approval for the language
> domain. I'm wondering if this policy should reflect the different
> procedures that these projects operate under - or does this policy
> specify that these procedures be standardised and on the incubator
> wiki? Thanks.
>

8.

Jesse Martin pathoschild at gmail.com
Mon Feb 26 22:49:07 UTC 2007


Hello,

The policy has been implemented at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:LPP>. As with any other wiki policy, it can be changed whenever necessary.

Yours cordially,
Jesse Martin

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