Do you have a set time limit for people to respond in? a week? a month? and what about the 4 inactive persons, how do you consider them inactive? what if you had 7 inactive members out of 10 at a time and didnt know it, would it still be a 'unanimous' decision?
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hoi, > You are wrong. If one person had objected at the time, the proposal would > not have been made eligible. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/1/11 Muhammad Alsebaey <[email protected]> > > > Which creates the situation we are in, according to you, all members of > > the > > language committee were explicitly asked to consider the issues that I > and > > others raised, but since only one out of the 10+ people responded, > > therefore > > they must have all considered all the issues and have no comment, and the > > decision is unanimous. I am not going to debate with you how this doesnt > > sound very logical, It is sufficient to say you are now finding out that > > there were at least 1 objecting and 4 inactive members after you declared > > the decision 'unanimous'. > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Gerard Meijssen > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Hoi, > > > As I have been saying before, the language committee works on the basis > > > that > > > if only one person objects, something does not move forward. Many > > subjects > > > are raised on our mailing list where people are notified that something > > is > > > going to be done and when nobody objects within a certain time frame, > the > > > proposal is moved forward. > > > Thanks, > > > GerardM > > > > > > 2009/1/11 Muhammad Alsebaey <[email protected]> > > > > > > > So Based on the the Archives Jesse and Casey graciously provided the > > link > > > > to, the only discussion about Masry I found was: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_subcommittee/Archives/2008-07#Wikipedia_Egyptian_Arabic > > > > > > > > When I raised the issue of Masry on this mailing list, raising what I > > > > thought was valid concerns, and at the same times others were raising > > > such > > > > concerns on meta, Gerard's response was, and I quote: > > > > > > > > I have indicated that the language > > > > > committee was unanimous in deciding that the Egyptian Arabic > > Wikipedia > > > > > request was eligible. > > > > > > > > > > > > > As indicated earlier, all members of the language > > > > > committee were explicitly asked to consider the issue that you > raise. > > > The > > > > > consequence of this is that in my opinion you refuse people the > > freedom > > > > to > > > > > work on a project in their language, languages that are eligible > > under > > > > the > > > > > language policy of the WMF. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Per above link, I see a discussion only between two members (Gerard > and > > > > Jon). I am pretty confused how did that constitute a 'unanimous > > > decision'. > > > > Wouldn't that be a gross mis-characterization? > > > > > > > > Wouldn't refusal to point me to archived discussion *then* > > > > mis-characterizing what really happened on the list be grounds for > some > > > > kind > > > > of audit? > > > > > > > > Forgive me If I am wrong, but that is the only information I have to > > work > > > > on, if I am wrong, I apologize to Gerard. > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Muhammad Alsebaey > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > foundation-l mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > foundation-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > Muhammad Alsebaey > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Best Regards, Muhammad Alsebaey _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
