Hoi,
I care deeply about Wikipedia but I do not care for the wrong reasons.
Ranks is not one that I care about. People being mad. sure they have their
own fall guy already. It is not only technical we have a policy because we
want to prevent such shenanigans not give it to such heavy handed thuggery.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3 May 2015 at 23:38, Mjbmr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> wrote:
>
>> 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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