Let's not forget that the creation of new wikis is stalled at the moment
for technical reasons. My motivation to advance approvals is not very high
due to it, since I dislike approving projects which are active at a time,
but might not still be active later when the technical issues are resolved
but are then created nevertheless.

Am Do., 22. Aug. 2019 um 15:21 Uhr schrieb Steven White <
[email protected]>:

> I'm happy to wait for your proposal, Amir.  Still, if there is something
> that is going to require LangCom approval, there needs to be something in
> the proposal that compels LangCom to act within a reasonable time frame.
> Yes, we're volunteers, but so are the people who are creating the projects
> in Incubator (etc.), and they deserve not to have to wait a year.
>
> I will also add that as long as I'm not so frustrated with the system that
> I can stay active, I do watch the active tests on Incubator. Yes, it's
> possible for me to be fooled by a hoax, as I don't usually read the
> languages involved. Still, as long as Incubator/Beta/Old Wikisource are
> being monitored, it needs to be a pretty robust hoax on the concerted part
> of a reasonable number of contributors in order to make it all the way to
> the point of approvability.
>
> Finally, then, is the tradeoff between avoiding hoaxes and being
> responsive to new-project communities.  The chances that such a community
> is a good-faith community that is being hurt by delay are probably much
> greater than the chances that such a community is a hoax community. So
> while I think we need a chance for our due diligence, we should not be
> allowed an arbitrarily long time to do that due diligence, either.
>
> Steven
>
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> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 08:52:07 +0300
> From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <[email protected]>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee
>         <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Langcom] Proposed amendment to LPP (was: Final approval
>         for     four projects)
>
> Sorry, no.
>
> No verification at all and simply assuming good faith after some arbitrary
> time is asking for trouble. There already were cases of hoaxes in the past.
> Not many cases, but they did happen, and we're talking about a whole site,
> even one case is major trouble.
>
> HOWEVER, I absolutely do recognize that we have unnecessary and harmful
> bottlenecks in the approval process, and because of that I'm working on
> another proposal that will ease up at least some of these bottlenecks.
>
> I've just came back from Wikimania, and I'm immediately going for a
> vacation until the end of August, but after that—expect surprises,
> hopefully good ones.
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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