I agree on this! We should be moving forward with this. Hindi Wikisource is big enough and active enough to have its own project.
On Wed, 6 Feb, 2019, 6:13 PM Steven White, <[email protected]> wrote: > MF-W (and Committee): Hindi Wikisource has already far surpassed the > eligibility requirement for February, making a fourth consecutive eligible > month. There are 5,554 pages in the test project. In my view, for what > that's worth: > > - If MF-W wants to start a discussion on not spinning off future > Wikisource projects, he can certainly do that. I'd venture that such a > change would require both a 2/3 vote in this committee and also Board > approval, though I may be mistaken. But we can go down that path, no doubt. > - It would be highly unfair to apply such a rule to Hindi Wikisource, > which has worked diligently toward a project under the current rules. Even > if we change the rules going forward, this project should be approved. > > MF-W, are you willing to withdraw your objection so that we can move this > forward? 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Re: Approval for Hindi Wikisource (MF-Warburg) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 01:58:48 +0100 > From: MF-Warburg <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Langcom] Approval for Hindi Wikisource > Message-ID: > <CAJKMOMXY+YS7=Aw8BCkRJjY3Vsy8Sr6nBQcLT7anQk2JKCo= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Am Di., 29. Jan. 2019 um 16:46 Uhr schrieb Steven White < > [email protected]>: > > > 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 > > > > > > Yes, "active" is thought of as "at least several months", and "at least > several" means at least 3. So here we're at the lower threshold, not at > some level where we "need to" approve. > > > 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. > > I have read that as well somewhere. What kind of argument is that supposed > to be? 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