On 3 May 2015, at 07:14, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have had some more thoughts on this..
> 
> My proposal is to have the az.wikipedia community decide what it wants... 
> 
> Do they want a Latin only Wikipedia or not.  When

If.

> they do, there Wikipedia will be renamed to Northern Azerbaijani and they 
> will lose the az code.

No! That’s your agenda. Leave it as it is, take the Arabic out and put it into 
a new Wiki. That seems to be what the users want. They haven’t said “We want to 
relabel the languages”. They’ve said they don’t want to mix script content. 

> When

If.

> they want to keep Arabic after all, it is no longer an option for them to 
> deny content in a legitimate script for their language.
> 
> When

If. 

> we agree that this makes sense in the light of our policy, we will inform the 
> board and give the board two weeks to express their approval.
> 
> We will then put it to the az.wp community and it is for them to come to a 
> decision they will have to live with. There will not be any other options 
> considered. 

The options are”

1) Do nothing. Keep scripts mixed.

2) Keep az.wikipedia.org for Latin. This is a national orthography. Add 
azb.wikipedia.org or az-arab.wikipedia.org for the Arabic-script version, which 
is used in Iran.

3) As 2) but deprecate az.wikipedia.org for Latin and make them use 
asj.wikipedia.org. This is a bad idea. 

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/


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