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In T284276#7160260 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284276#7160260>, @Esc3300 wrote: > I suppose you refer to the timeframe for langco review of proposed new codes. Can you please stop writing "langco"? It's really weird. It's "Language committee", and if you really want to abbreviate, then it's Langcom. I haven't seen anyone else writing "langco". > I don't think it's entirely new. It is already used for language codes on Wikidata for some time, given the lack of response and sometimes entirely incomprehensible arguments we had during reviews. I think the situation has much improved lately (also thanks to you), but during my recent cleanup I still came across countless requests by contributors that were lost in phabricator without a clear reason. They are not countless. Phabricator has a finite number of tasks. It certainly happens that things get missed, and it's not good. I do Language committee work it as a volunteer. I also have a day job and two children. I receive a lot of Phabricator emails, which are very similar to each other, and it happens that I miss some. If you believe my attention is needed somewhere, I'm easy to find on email and Telegram, and a lot of people use this successfully. > Maybe you can explain why https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262922 took so long (you were pinged three times over a period of six months). See above. Phabricator pings by themselves are not always perfectly efficient. >> The whole point of the Language committee is to prevent hoaxes, invalid languages, and duplicates. > > The question here is mainly about codes for Wikidata, these are generally trivial in nature and I don't think I have seen any of "hoaxes, invalid languages, and duplicates". No, they aren't trivial. People with weird ideas may use the presence of a language in Wikidata as "a foot in the door" and demand a whole Wikipedia. > Even a potential duplicate could eventually be merged and the people involved should be able to assess if the code is technically valid. This is somewhat different from the usual incubator business langco was formed for. Have such merges ever happened? It's not as easy as you make it seem. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284276 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Amire80 Cc: Mahir256, Mbch331, Amire80, jhsoby, Lydia_Pintscher, Aklapper, Esc3300, Invadibot, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Nikki, Wikidata-bugs, aude
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