Is there a reason for preferring "reject as stale" over "on hold, waiting for native speakers [or something else]", other than looking better in the "last action" column? I don't mind either way.
2018-01-22 17:27 GMT+01:00 Steven White <[email protected]>: > Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Istriot > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Istriot>: > Currently on hold. There are a few pages on Incubator, but nothing added in > several years. Propose to * reject as stale*, without prejudice for a new > request if a community comes back to work on a project. > > Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Teochew > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Teochew>: > Currently on hold due to no ISO code. Code was rejected at SIL in 2009. At > the time, SIL expressed some sympathy for the idea of retiring "nan" and > splitting it. But as the code request did not cover the full breadth of > "nan", the request was rejected. There has been no recurrent request, to > the best of my knowledge. Suggest *reject* per policy, with an invitation > to create a new request if a code is ever created. > > Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Unserdeutsch 2 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Unserdeutsch_2>: > About 100 L1 speakers left, mostly living in Australia. No test project, > and no evidence of native speakers. If this were a new request, I'd > probably mark as "on hold". As it is, we should probably *reject as stale*, > without prejudice for a new request if a community comes back to work on a > project. > > Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Pandan Bikol (Northern Catanduanes > Bikol) > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Pandan_Bikol>: > About 78,000 speakers. No evidence of any native speakers present since > request was made. Also member of a macrolanguage (Bikol): bik. Within > macrolanguage, existing Wikipedia for Central Bikol (bcl), fairly developed > test projects for Miraya Bikol (Wp/rbl) and Rinconada Bikol (Wp/bto), > though no substantive additions since 2015. This language's test has a > single page that might not even be in the language. Should probably *reject > this as stale*, without prejudice for a new request. > > Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Simple Hebrew > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Simple_Hebrew>: > *Reject:* (a) If a project like this is ever to exist, current policy is > that it must incubate at the corresponding project, in this case Hebrew > Wikipedia. (b) If such an incubation wants to get out of the base project, > that can only happen if the project (or namespace) uses an externally > defined simple version of the language, and I'm not aware that one even > exists in Hebrew. > > > Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > >
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