We are not, and you're misinterpreting Gerard's post; what he says is that we do not allow any more simple projects; deciding over existing projects is not something we do, and not something we even *want* to do.
2009/2/26 Geoffrey Plourde <[email protected]> > I didn't know the language committee was empowered to decide on whether or > not Simples were made. I thought your job was to determine valid languages. > I absolutely cannot support the continued existence of this body due to > these unknown powers and will make my voice known the next time someone > offers to can it. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:19:47 AM > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia > > Hoi, > Possibly. > Now for some cold water. At this moment the policy is explicit. We do not > accept any new Simple projects in any language. What I said was that it > would be good when there are some good numbers that prove the value of a > simple project. Once this is more clear, we may reconsider. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/2/25 Chad <[email protected]> > > > I could be wrong, but I think you're misreading the point here. It's that > > we should Incubate more Simples in more languages, not that we need > > a Simple Incubator... > > > > -Chad > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Gerard Meijssen < > > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > Hoi, > > > There is no room nor need for a simple Incubator. One suffices. > > > Thanks. > > > GerardM > > > > > > 2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]> > > > > > > > "No, > > > > Absolutely not." > > > > > > > > Eh? "No, Absolutely not." to what precisely? You say incubator should > > be > > > a > > > > phase for projects? I said simple should incubate for even larger > > > > languages. Where is the "No, Absolutely not." directed at? > > > > > > > > > > > > Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > > > > No, > > > > > Absolutely not. The Incubator is a vital resource that can easily > > > > accomadote > > > > > any language any project. If anything I would make the Incubator > > > > compulsory > > > > > for ANY project. The reason for this is obvious; the Incubator > works. > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > GerardM > > > > > > > > > > 2009/2/25 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> Andrew Gray wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >>> 2009/2/25 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>: > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>>> Hoi, > > > > >>>> When the use case of the Simple Wikipedia is better understood, > it > > > may > > > > >>>> > > > > >> even > > > > >> > > > > >>>> make room for more simple projects as in simple projects in the > > > > biggest > > > > >>>> languages. > > > > >>>> > > > > >>>> > > > > >>> This is quite an interesting thought. The language used by Simple > > > > >>> English is (apparently) derived from two defined "simplified > > > versions" > > > > >>> of English which were deliberately designed - have there been > > > projects > > > > >>> to do the same for, say, French or Spanish, or would we have to > do > > > the > > > > >>> heavy lifting ourselves? > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >> My attempt at a constructive contribution to this thread would > > > > >> be to suggest that every Simple Wikipedia language, no matter > > > > >> large or small, should start at a Simple Incubator. The incubator > > > > >> seems a proven concept (it has delivered live babies, yes?). > > > > >> > > > > >> To me it seems a no-brainer that Simple Communities in every > > > > >> language would only activate a sub-set of their languages > > > > >> community, and this implies to me that as such the community > > > > >> could do with bootstrapping in the fashion that incubators do. > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> Yours, > > > > >> > > > > >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
