Hoi,
I am sorry but when people want to localise Klingon in the Klingon script
they are welcome to it. This has nothing to do with the language policy. It
is up to the people at translatewiki.net to decide on that. In the past
their requirement for Klingon was that it had to use the Klingon script.
The scope of the language committee typically ends with the creation of a
new project. However, in the past we did recommend for the closure of wikis
when the language used was NOT the language advertised. The removal
happened in the end.
We do and did get involvement in the addition of new languages in Wikidata
for ISO 639-3. The purpose was that they did not wan to add all languages
and having a process where the language committee wisely nodded is what we
have. This is for ISO 639-3 only.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 30 November 2016 at 12:55, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Lydia Pintscher
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Yes. The point is then that Wikidata doesn't need approval from us for
> >> any valid BCP 47 combination with a valid ISO 639-3 code and that they
> >> should just consult us just to be sure it's not a nonsense.
> >
> > The consultation part is important for me personally. I don't have
> > enough knowledge on language codes and so on to decide which ones are
> > following a given standard or not. So I'd like some sanity checking
> > from you folks and I got that in the past on tickets in phabricator.
> > Thanks for that.
>
> Yes. I see that the scope of Language committee ends with localization
> implemented into Wikimedia projects (so, theoretically, a subset of
> what's been done on TranslateWiki). In other words, political
> responsibility of Wikimedia Foundation ends there and LangCom is the
> keeper of that level of integrity (no, we don't need Klingon
> localization because its educational value is zero, but it's
> completely valid to make it for fun and implement into some
> non-Wikimedia MediaWiki installations).
>
> Contrary to that, LangCom shouldn't interfere into the content of
> Wikimedia projects, like Wikidata is. But, yes, it's useful to consult
> LangCom in more formal cases, like adding a new language into the
> Wikidata sets.
>
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