I agree with Steven here. A sysop from multilingual Wikisource reached out
to me recently to ask if we are going to have a separate Hindi Wikisource
soon, since it was feared that the multilingual Wikisource might become the
de facto Hindi Wikisource.

Besides, Hindi already has projects like wikivoyage and wikiversity.

Best
Satdeep

On Tue, 29 Jan, 2019, 7:46 AM Steven White <[email protected] wrote:

> Leaving aside the question of whether we should change policies about
> separate-language Wikisource projects for the time being, I'll note that
> our longstanding policy has been that three consecutive months of
> qualifying activity is sufficient to meet the "active test community"
> requirement. I routinely tell that to test communities. If we want to
> change that in the future, we can do so. But in this case, the test
> community has already done everything we have asked of it.
>
> Besides, while it is important to ensure that each wiki we approve
> continues to have a contributing community, I worry less about Wikisource
> (and Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote) than I do about
> Wikipedia–Wikinews–Wikitravel. Information gets stale (or is quite subject
> to political manipulation) in the latter group, less so in the former group.
>
> So I think we need to proceed with this approval.
> Steven
>
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