For the record, I have also asked user:Axel xadolik to comment. Am Di., 12. Nov. 2019 um 17:48 Uhr schrieb Steven White < [email protected]>:
> I highly doubt this would become a laughing stock. This project is > actually one of the best, highest-quality, most serious projects I have > seen in my three years (short two weeks) as a sysop on Incubator. That > doesn't make your questions any less valid; I only share my perspective > that this is a serious effort worthy of consideration. > > - Just now looking at Catanalysis, I see six contributors with at > least 500 edits, four more with at least 100, and four more with at least > 50. So this is not a project of only 3–5 people. > - There are close to 5,000 mainspace pages. Very few are redirects. > Many are short, but even those have good bibliographies, which is better > than a lot of our projects do. > > I would mention two points about Jan's 27 September email to the list: > > - "Kotava indeed has an impressive text corpus." Is there a convenient > list somewhere? > - I would suggest you consider looking at > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotava. It also has sourcing problems, > to be sure. But this conlang, unlike many, comes out of the francophone > world. So I'm not sure the lack of awareness in the anglophone world is the > most appropriate measure of the language. > > Steven > > Sent from Outlook <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Langcom <[email protected]> on behalf of > MF-Warburg <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 12, 2019 11:21 AM > *To:* Wikimedia Foundation Language Committee <[email protected] > > > *Subject:* Re: [Langcom] Kotava Wikipedia > > I somewhat share the concerns mentioned by Amir and Jan van Steenbergen. > What I would hate to see is that we approve a project and then become a > laughing stock because it turns out to be an unserious thing in one way or > another. > > Is there some proof here of any of: "independently proved number of > speakers, use as an auxiliary language outside of online communities > created solely for the purpose, usage outside of Wikimedia, publication of > works in the language for general sale", as suggested by the admirable > Language Proposal Policy? > > > > > Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 5. Nov. 2019, 13:12: > > Any other comments other than Michael's repeated approvals? ;-) > > If not, we can move forward on this, but I'd like to hear the thoughts of > at least a couple more committee members. > > tir. 1. okt. 2019 kl. 15:28 skrev Michael Everson <[email protected]>: > > There seems to be something wrong with my mail server. > > > On 30 Sep 2019, at 20:33, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Michael, are you ok? > > > > Michael Everson <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo., 30. Sep. 2019, > 21:24: > > I support approval. > > > > > On 26 Sep 2019, at 22:47, Jon Harald Søby <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'd like to hear your thoughts on the Kotava Wikipedia. Kotava is a > conlang created in 1978, mainly known in French-speaking countries > (according to the English Wikipedia). They have a very active test wiki in > Incubator, with more than 3,000 articles, which makes it bigger than the > Novial Wikipedia (which we approved in 2008) and about the same size as the > Lingua Franca Nova (LFN) Wikipedia (which we approved in 2017). There are > several active users, and sustained activity for many months. > > > > > > Does anyone have reasons for why we should not approve this project? > > > > > > -- > > > mvh > > > Jon Harald Søby > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Langcom mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wikimedia.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flangcom&data=02%7C01%7C%7C04fa68c31aad471c149e08d7678c82d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637091725497635647&sdata=nvyXylUrFLw%2B86BC5u1VsWY%2F8GFDLeChYAKDTtd2074%3D&reserved=0> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Langcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wikimedia.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flangcom&data=02%7C01%7C%7C04fa68c31aad471c149e08d7678c82d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637091725497635647&sdata=nvyXylUrFLw%2B86BC5u1VsWY%2F8GFDLeChYAKDTtd2074%3D&reserved=0> > > _______________________________________________ > > Langcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wikimedia.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flangcom&data=02%7C01%7C%7C04fa68c31aad471c149e08d7678c82d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637091725497645659&sdata=bKy5ktXT5UTXAkGbw2hREHpNh4FNXaanMyY7XQGwL5M%3D&reserved=0> > > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wikimedia.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flangcom&data=02%7C01%7C%7C04fa68c31aad471c149e08d7678c82d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637091725497645659&sdata=bKy5ktXT5UTXAkGbw2hREHpNh4FNXaanMyY7XQGwL5M%3D&reserved=0> > > > > -- > mvh > Jon Harald Søby > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom > <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.wikimedia.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flangcom&data=02%7C01%7C%7C04fa68c31aad471c149e08d7678c82d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637091725497655659&sdata=9NPPio%2B2rk%2Fv%2BhTJjY5Fn%2FQ9eZU8%2Bu4PoF%2Fon3DdonI%3D&reserved=0> > > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/langcom >
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