Is there any discussion going on there? btw I don't think it's required,
if we move az.wikipedia.org to somewhere else we're gonna deal with a
lot loosing ranks and that's not acceptable in any way. Also if azwiki
community decides they want to move their domain, there will be a lot of
absent people mad at you later, be aware you're moving a encyclopedia,
my opinion is let's just keep it for technical issues and start helping
South one get a place.
On 5/4/2015 1:47 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
It is simple. We have a policy. As a consequence of that policy we did
reject a southern Azeri Wikipedia. We did so because it was included
in the az.wikipedia. Now one administrator decides to force an issue
by deleting articles in the Arabic script. That is not acceptable
particularly not because there was no consensus for him to do so.,
There is no reason at all to give this silly sod what he wants. There
are multiple options
* they can restore the articles an the az multi script situation
* they can vote to have a separate Northern ie Latn script Wikipedia
When they have made their choice our policy does deny them the
az,wikipedia because effectively it is a new one., Az is a macro
language code so it is not available.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 May 2015 at 19:41, Michael Everson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 3 May 2015, at 07:14, Gerard Meijssen
<[email protected] <mailto:[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 <http://az.wikipedia.org> for Latin. This
is a national orthography. Add azb.wikipedia.org
<http://azb.wikipedia.org> or az-arab.wikipedia.org
<http://az-arab.wikipedia.org> for the Arabic-script version,
which is used in Iran.
3) As 2) but deprecate az.wikipedia.org <http://az.wikipedia.org>
for Latin and make them use asj.wikipedia.org
<http://asj.wikipedia.org>. This is a bad idea.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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