I’m not voting yet because I don’t understand MF’s objection. OK, if three months is not sufficient, did he make a suggestion as to what would be sufficient?
M > On 4 Mar 2019, at 17:53, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom _______________________________________________ Langcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom
