... Deletion after just one year doesn't seem appropriate to me. I think it would be better if we had our own incubator, reserved for African languages, with...
Looking over this topic quickly again (in light of the recent exchanges on Wolof), I would like to say that there are several reasons that it would be helpful...
Hoi, The language support of Google that I am interested in is in the support provided in the search engine. For languages that are supported content will be...
Google has a very simple model for localizing their interface into any language: they make their interface strings available, and anyone can edit them one at a...
Hoi, There are genuine advantages for being part of the incubator. There is no need to have a vibrant community yet. There are people from other languages that...
... It's important not to both break the egg and kill the chicken. Only allowing Wikipedias to start when the interface is already localized could be an...
Hoi, I do observe several wikipedias and for me "safe" is when there is a community with at least a few regular contributors who have been working at it for at...
Thanks for bringing this up, Gerard. I've been meaning to come back to this topic, so now's the time. You write: With few people working on a project, a...
Hoi, With few people working on a project, a project is not "safe". We have seen in the past that people worked silently on a project only to find that the ...
... I'm a bit confused. Do you mean SF-Language, and Wikiquote as the project that is threatened to be closed? Where are the votes? wo.wq should be kept open...
Hoi, For your information a guy who speaks some Wolof has started to work on the wo.wikipedia.org... He does not want to see this project closed. He is also ...
... Hmm, ok, we did that more than 3 weeks ago, see http://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrateurs I removed the whole discussion and started from...
The best thing you can do is to do as suggested by Kylu: Request temp admin access and meanwhile have a "vote" at ff.wiki. If two registered users vote for...
I am trying to move the Fulfulde Wikipedia forward, by giving admin permissions to Amkoullel [0]. Unfortunately the Meta Wikipedia Bureaucracy has been holding...
Thanks Johannes, and welcome to the group. Several quick thoughts (hastily written): 1) It would be great to have more communication re the status of ...
... The closure had been proposed in Sept 2007 and discussed for about half a year. ... I recall that I did write a mail to foundation-l, however, I cannot ...
The thing about closing projects is not that we close them forever or delete the content. We just lock the wikis so that they cannot be edited. People who want...
Hi Jon, and thanks for the reply and clarification. Comments below. ... Maybe it's just me (I probably should have been checking) but it seems like the...
... No the language committe does not deal with the closure of wikipedias - we only were asked once, in the case of Belarussian, for an opinion, but we do not...
... Hi Jon, Thanks for explaining; after I sent that mail, I took a closer look at the Langcom page and it's clearly explained there that the Langcom only...
Hi, Don. The decisions to close projects are made collectively by the community on Meta-Wiki. The only thing that could have saved the Kanuri Wikipedia from...
... Are these decisions ultimately made by the language committee? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special_projects_subcommittees/Languages ... Perhaps there is...
I just found that the Kanuri Wikipedia http://kr.wikipedia.org/ has been closed. I admit not having followed this issue (actually I hadn't seen that there was...
Kasper, I am leaving New York September 7th. Maybe we can meet up on the 6th? Jama Jama Musse <jmgurey@...> wrote: Hi Kasper, I am not member of the...
Hi Kasper, I am not member of the group who launched the idea and this project, but I am willing to go there and participate as an observer (and perhaps ...
Today I found out about WikiAfrica.it, an interesting Italian project. There is a workshop in Mantova this weekend. I won't be able to go there myself, but...
