Agreed!
On 5/11/2017 9:24 p.m., Milos Rancic wrote:
I support Steven as a clerk, as well. (I supoort him as a full LangCom
member, but let's finish voting on this issue before we start anything
new.)
On Nov 5, 2017 8:04 PM, "Oliver Stegen" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear fellow LangCom members,
I've thought about Steve's proposal and have come to the
conclusion that we should accept it. More and more volunteer-based
committees of non-profit organisations appoint such clerks. (I've
seen it in an international school context which was run by a
volunteer board.)
The main advantage, imho, is that (quite apart from lightening the
load of administrative burdens) such a clerk can keep us on our
toes. Especially when a lull in interaction comes up (which is
bound to happen in the future just as regularly as it has happened
in the past - life is too busy for most if not all of us).
So, I vote for appointing Steve as our clerk.
In the hope of speeding up LangCom's tasks,
Oliver Stegen (User:Baba Tabita)
On 03-Nov-17 17:29, Steven White wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I would like to propose that the Language Committee formally
appoint me as clerk. In a similar vein to the way clerks work
for bodies like the English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee, my
purpose in this is to keep things moving on-wiki that do not
really require a member of the LangCom to post on-wiki directly,
except as a matter of formal procedure. Thus, for example, I
would see this appointment as authorizing the following actions:
* Marking projects as "eligible" when it's obvious—for example,
languages that clearly have a large speaker base, and perhaps
already have an open Wikimedia project. Anything that is
remotely controversial—langcode is for a macrolanguage or
constructed language, little or no speaker base, ancient
language, etc.—I would not mark, unless expressly authorized
by LangCom. Even when I mark an obvious project as
"eligible", I would post here that I have done so.
* Marking new project proposals or closing project proposals as
approved or not approved when (and only when) a definitive
decision has been taken according to the rules set out by
LangCom. For example, based on Oliver's posting of 29
October, if there is no further comment on the matter, I
would mark the requests to close Nahuatl Wikipedia and
Transkievica Wikipedia as rejected on 5 November, one week
after Oliver's posting.
There are two main reasons that I am requesting you to appoint me
formally. At a certain level, the rules already allow me to take
such actions on-wiki if I find compelling enough
reason—discussions are unreasonable, disruptive, personal, etc.
However, there is room for people to object on the technical
grounds that only LangCom members may do these things.
Further, if there were a strong history of LangCom members in
fact handling these things promptly on-wiki, there would be no
need for me to make this request. But the history, if anything,
is otherwise. So I think this would be a positive step for
LangCom to take in order to reduce the number of open RFL and PCP
requests sitting out there in limbo.
Thank you for your consideration.
Respectfully,
Steven White (User:StevenJ81)
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