It was political. > On 28 Dec 2017, at 03:00, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote: > > From a purely linguistic perspective, it's hard to argue with any of this. > And I don't have a skin in the game here; objectively, it doesn't matter to > me if Montenegrin becomes eligible or not. Still, I would say the following: > > Concerning MF-Warburg's comment: I fully understand that the others are > grandfathered and wouldn't be created now. But the fact that they exist now > means that the question about Montenegrin cannot be considered in a vacuum, > either. > > Concerning Jan's comment: I hear you. But to extend your analogy, the Irish > are looking for an Irish English wiki because every time an Irishman tries to > bring a different POV to articles about Ireland on the British wiki, s/he is > being shot down. (Pretend it's 1975, or 1922, and the example is more > trenchant.) Also, this whole issue of language secessionism doesn't really > exist in English, so to make that comparison is only partially valid. > > I do think we need to hear from Milos on this subject. > > Let me add: On the Meta discussion page, I'm about to allow the discussion to > reopen, with a focus on really two questions only: > > • The principal question is whether or not Montenegrins actually have > "free, unbiased access to the sum of all human knowledge" on the current > projects. What they keep suggesting is that they don't: Serbian POV > dominates, and Montenegrin POV is given short shrift. I am going to ask the > Montenegrin advocates to prove that with concrete examples. But if they do > so, then either (a) NPOV is going to have to be enforced from the outside (if > that's even possible, but thereby violating normal practices of project > autonomy) or (b) we're going to have to allow the Montenegrins to have their > own project. > • The second question: It's really quite remarkable in a way that the > Montenegrins got the Library of Congress to make the first change to ISO > 639-2 in five years. I'll grant that was probably just a political victory. > But I'm going to invite the Montenegrin community to share any new evidence > that they may have that may have changed LoC's mind, and could change ours. > Maybe there isn't any new evidence. But if there is, we should be open to it. > > Steven > > Sent from Outlook > > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
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