The activity definitely looks good, so I'm not opposed to approving it, but more than ever I'd like to hear an expert's approval. It's the usual practice, but I had particular difficulty finding any information online about this language.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore בתאריך יום ג׳, 11 בדצמ׳ 2018 ב-17:23 מאת Steven White < [email protected]>: > I am proposing approval of the Guianan Creole Wikipedia > <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gcr>. It has ticked off all the > boxes it needs to tick off: active community, interface translation, > reasonable number of pages. > > The one potential problem with this test is that the ratio of articles to > stubs is low. (That is, it has a lot of stubs, compared to quality > articles.) The reason for this is that the small, but enthusiastic, team > working on the test project kept wanting some guidance from LangCom as to > how much content was needed in order to get an approval. By design, we > don't really have a specific standard for that. In the absence of that > guidance, the team kept creating short pages; it took me a long time to > convince them to stop, and to focus on filling out complete pages instead. > > They have now started to do that, and have a core of pages in areas of > specific interest to the community of Guiane that are filled out and up to > quality standards. They are continuing to work on that. But enough stubs > were created early in the game that from a ratio perspective, it would take > the team a long time to get to what we'd ordinarily prefer to see. Now, I > have been working with this team regularly for a long while—probably at > least two years. They feel they have worked hard, but they are getting > anxious. I firmly believe that if this test is approved, the team will > continue to work on the project, and will be able to recruit additional > contributors. I am concerned that if we say no—particularly if I am not > able to give specific guidance on how many "complete" pages are enough—they > are going to give up and walk away. > > Let me add: the stubs are not junk. They're just stubs. The team has > worked hard to do the right thing all along, and their focus is in a good > place now. Thank you for your consideration. > > Steven > > Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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