Well, suppose that fr.ws hosted Latin texts. It would make no sense to deny a Latin Wikisource or Latin texts on Multilingual WS because of that.
Am Mo., 11. Feb. 2019 um 20:13 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen < [email protected]>: > 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 >>> >>> Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Langcom mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Langcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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