Hoi,
I am happy with this as well.
Thanks.
GerardM
On 8 November 2017 at 10:02, Maor Malul <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> 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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