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? 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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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