I agree with your thoughts on the preferability of deletion & "very clearly eligible" requests which already have one or more WMF projects.
Am Mo., 7. Okt. 2024 um 22:34 Uhr schrieb Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]>: > ... But if the language in the request is *very clearly* eligible, then > "waiting" or "stale" should just be changed to "eligible". "Very clearly > eligible" means, for example, that it's a language in which there is > already another wiki that would be created under the current rules. So ha, > yo, and ml are clearly eligible, but ang, nds-nl, or cu require at least a > discussion. Any other opinions? > > > > בתאריך יום ב׳, 7 באוק׳ 2024 ב-16:29 מאת Amir E. Aharoni < > [email protected]>: > >> >> בתאריך יום ה׳, 3 באוק׳ 2024 ב-14:12 מאת MF-Warburg < >> [email protected]>: >> >>> There is nothing that speaks against marking these requests as eligible. >>> >>> "waiting" can also be used, it will say "This proposal is on hold" above >>> the comment from a langcom member. It's mostly used (I think by StevenJ81 >>> and me) for requests that are like "this project should exist but I am not >>> even a speaker of the language". Example < >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_%C7%83X%C3%B3%C3%B5> >>> I am unsure about how useful this really is, as of course a project is >>> either eligible or not, independent of Incubator activities. >>> >> >> Thanks. >> >> As I wrote in another recent email, I think that request pages of >> the "this project should exist but I am not even a speaker of the language" >> type should be *deleted*, unless there's substantial content in the >> Incubator or substantial discussion on the request page itself. >> >> >>> >>> "stale" says "While this request has technically been rejected, in >>> reality this is a request that has been sitting open or on hold for a long >>> time with little evidence of a community coming together to build a >>> project. If a community comes together in the future and makes a new >>> request, LangCom would consider that new request without prejudice >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/without_prejudice>." I don't think using >>> this makes much sense. >>> >> >> As above. A lot of these pages should be outright deleted, unless there's >> substantial content in the Incubator or substantial discussion on the >> request page itself. Creating a request page is easy, perhaps too easy. >> It's only worth any effort if there's at least one person who actually >> knows the language, or, at the very least, has *serious and realistic* >> intentions of working with people who do. >> >> If a request page of this kind is deleted, as I propose, a person who >> knows the language can easily create a new one, and it will be much better >> if the page associated with that person from the first revision. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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