Hoi,
Reality check. The Chinese community does not want it.. There is one person
who does and we are to support it? Really?
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 18:02, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello and apologies that I only answer on the 7th day, but this is a
> really complex matter.
>
> I have come to a different conclusion and think that the request should
> not be rejected, but rather made eligible under the current rules.
> Saying that this content must go to zh.ws is rather similar to saying
> "Latin content should be on es.ws, as that is the daughter with the most
> speakers".
>
> [We see again here the problem with having Wikisource subdomains, which
> also leads to funny situations where half a book is on one wiki, and the
> other half on the other, as in <
> https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Pagina:Virgile_-_G%C3%A9orgiques,_traduction_Desportes,_1846,_2.djvu/40
> >.]
>
> Am Mo., 4. Feb. 2019 um 23:39 Uhr schrieb Steven White <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> MF-Warburg reversed what he felt was a premature and unilateral decision
>> on my part to reject this request, and rightly so. (This is not least
>> because I *just* promised to continue to post non-routine closings
>> here.) My apologies to the Committee. Nevertheless, I am proposing to
>> reject this request, which has been actively running for about three months.
>>
>> In certain respects, Literary Chinese has parallels to Latin, in that it
>> was the literary *lingua franca* in much of East Asia—not just China—for
>> centuries. On the basis of policy, one could thus justify allowing this as
>> an independent project (currently in Multilingual Wikisource). At the same
>> time, it is also a historical version of Chinese, and on the basis of
>> policy, one could also justify housing this content in Chinese Wikisource.
>>
>> As a practical matter, there is substantial Literary Chinese content in
>> Chinese Wikisource already, and very little in Multilingual Wikisource.
>> Except for the person who made the request, everyone else who contributed
>> to the discussion on Meta feels that Literary Chinese is adequately and
>> properly curated on Chinese Wikisource.
>>
>> Over the course of the discussion, I made one request of the Chinese
>> Wikisource community, and that was to make it possible for non-Mandarin
>> speakers having an interest in this content to have a way to communicate
>> other than in Mandarin. They have done so.
>>
>> It doesn't really serve the bulk of the Literary Chinese community, nor
>> WMF in general, to split Literary Chinese out from Chinese Wikisource as an
>> independent project. The objections of the one user making the request
>> notwithstanding, Wikisource content in Literary Chinese is better off
>> staying in Chinese Wikisource.
>>
>> The discussion page is here
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Literary_Chinese>.
>> Thank you in advance for your comments. If there are not objections in
>> seven days, I will proceed to close.
>>
>> Steven
>>
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