I see no reason in delaying this.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

Program Officer
GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge
Wikimedia Foundation


On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 23:24, Satdeep Gill <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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? Thanks.
>> Steven
>>
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>> 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? It's not like any other languages' "space" is taken up by the Hindi
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