Hoi,
Consider, the proposed thing amounts to a lot of work.. hassle. Who is
going to do that?
Thanks,
GerardM
On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 17:14, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Where this discussion stands at present is this:
>
> - Gerard is opposed to allowing this, on the grounds that there is a
> solid community of contributors on zh Wikisource that opposes, and only
> evidence for one or two people who support it.
> - MF-W favors marking this as "eligible", as to a great extent
> Literary Chinese is to the modern group of Chinese languages as Latin is to
> Romance languages. Just as neither French Wikisource nor Italian Wikisource
> would really be the right place for Latin content, so too neither Mandarin
> Wikisource nor Cantonese Wikisource, say, is inherently the right place for
> Literary Chinese content.
> - That having been said, MF-W also appreciates that there is a lot
> of Literary Chinese content already in Chinese/Mandarin Wikisource.
> Also,
> if I read his email of 21 February (19:50 UTC) correctly, he is not
> proposing that we move the Literary Chinese content out of Chinese
> Wikisource (at least at the present time).
> - I think that we agree that in the long run we don't need or want
> duplicated content in these projects.
>
> I'm open to suggestions. But at present, the compromise position I would
> like to suggest is this:
>
> - We mark this request as "on hold", pending evidence that a community
> exists that will create content in a Literary Chinese Wikisource test on
> oldwikisource. This is completely consistent with our practice in many
> other cases. We often have requests that are nominally eligible, but where
> no content is ever created—or perhaps a few pages are created right after
> the request is, and then people walk away. If a year passes with no further
> meaningful contributions, we close the request as "rejected-stale",
> inviting a new request in the future. By taking this approach, on-wiki
> activity would drive the subsequent result:
> - If, as Gerard assumes, only one or two people are involved, we
> can decide that there is not an independent community for this project,
> and
> we can reject it.
> - If there is a community that is seriously interested in this, the
> "on hold" will become an "eligible", as MF-W wishes.
> - I am going to suggest a special rule here: that documents in
> Literary Chinese that already exist on zh Wikisource <u>not</u> be
> duplicated on, nor moved to, oldwikisource. (I suppose, to be fair, that
> the rule needs to cut the other way, too.)
> - I am also going to suggest that even if the proposal becomes
> "eligible" in the near future, we are explicitly withholding our
> opinion as
> to how to execute any final approval until that problem is actually
> before
> us.
>
> I would appreciate the Committee's feedback on this.
> Steven
>
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