Hoi, Strongly in favour. Gerard On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 17:43, Steven White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Previous discussions have not resulted in a consensus to approve this > project. I am therefore putting it to a vote. > > The project meets the nominal requirements for final approval: > > - It has about 7,500 pages. > - For November-February, it had over ten registered editors in each > month with at least ten edits. (In fact, it had at least four in each > month, and usually more, with at least 100 edits.) > - There was a period in 2016-17 when most months had at least three > editors with at least ten edits. > - March 2019 already has four editors with at least ten edits, > three of whom have at least 100—and it's only the fourth day of the > month. > - These statistics do not include some pages and contributions in > the category "Hindi" (as opposed to the core category "हिन्दी"). > - Of the approximately 3,700 translations in MediaWiki Core, only four > are untranslated. > > MF-W has two principal objections. (If I have not stated these with > sufficient clarity, please correct me.) > > - First, he sees no reason to rush—if the project stays active it will > be approved in due course. > - I would respond to that as follows: Perhaps that is true. But if > anything, I see many complaints on-wiki that it takes a long time for > LangCom to decide on things, so that frequently people get tired of > waiting > and move on. If a project ceases to be active in general, that's one > thing. > But if it ceases to be active because we routinely fail to act, that's > another thing entirely. > - Related, MF-W feels that perhaps three months of activity is not > sufficient to prove an active community exists. If so, we should discuss > that separately. But based on long-standing practices here, that is the > advice that I give on-wiki. Until we decide on a different standard, > it's > only fair for us to follow that one. > - Second, he is still not fully convinced that we need separate > language subdomains for Wikisource. Again, that is a subject for a > different discussion, but the Hindi Wikisource community has been working > with the current rules in mind. > > There is nothing about this vote that triggers the need for a 2/3 > majority. So a simple majority will decide. Please vote even if you have > commented previously on this subject. The vote will close seven days after > this email is posted—meaning at approximately 16:40 UTC on 11 March. > > Steven > > Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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