One addition which I missed while writing the proposal: "If particular organization is not WMF, a Wikimedia chapter, a Wikimedia thematic organization, a Wikimedia user group or any other Affiliations committee approved organization, it has to make rational efforts to coordinate its Wikimedia-related activities with relevant Wikimedia organizations operating on particular territory."
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Oliver Stegen <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > (and sorry, no time right now to "fix the English" of the statement) > > > > On 08-Feb-17 02:13, Milos Rancic wrote: >> >> Gerard and I were talking today about this issue. Here is the proposal >> to be added into the LPP if accepted. Gerard's parts are related to >> the traditional LangCom requirements, my parts are about the >> organizations. Feel free to fix my English, add whatever you think >> it's important for the amendment itself etc. (Asaf, Carlos, you are >> encouraged to give your input in relation to the organizational part.) >> >> Note that this proposal assumes that both Wikimedia and non-Wikimedia >> organizations would be able to propose a project for fast approval. >> >> * * * >> >> Fast approval assumes that the Language committee would approve >> previously eligible first Wikimedia project in particular language >> under certain conditions without necessity for the project to pass the >> process inside of Incubator (which usually lasts at least six months, >> but likely a couple of years). >> >> The main condition for fast approval is officially expressed support >> by particular organization, which would guarantee that the project >> would be viable for the next two years. >> >> Organization has to have the following attributes: >> * Officially incorporated organization inside of the country where >> significant population of speakers of the target language live. >> * Annual and strategic plan. >> * Track record of successfully finished projects. >> * Commitment to transparent work. >> >> To do that, organization has to do the following: >> * Translate 500 most common MediaWiki messages in the target language >> to immediately show its commitment. (NOTE: I think that few hours of >> translation job is reasonable immediate requirement; we could discuss >> about it.) >> * Present to the Language committee the proposal for the project. That >> could be a program of editathons in particular area, targeting >> speakers of one or more languages without any Wikimedia project. >> * Give formal guarantee that the Wikimedia-related work with >> particular linguistic group will last at least two years. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > > > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
