Amire80 added a comment.

  In T284276#7160323 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284276#7160323>, 
@Esc3300 wrote:
  
  > In T284276#7160314 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284276#7160314>, 
@Amire80 wrote:
  >
  >> Emails //from Phabricator// are not very efficient.
  >
  > If you want to participate in a phabricator based process at some point you 
need to adopt its use.
  
  I use Phabricator for a lot of things, and not just this.
  
  > Personally, I think the workboard set up by langcom at #language_codes 
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/language_codes/> is sufficient. It takes 
some time to get used to it, but eventually I figured it out.
  
  I will try to look at it more frequently.
  
  >> ... And the language //happens// to be valid, but it's not great that it 
happens outside of process. It's my fault, too, but still. Let's all make our 
best efforts to respect it.
  >
  > Maybe you could explain what part of the process wasn't followed and where 
this is spelled out. Also, I think we should try to show more respect for users 
who formulate these requests.
  
  The code was added without Language committee approval. Or did I miss 
anything?
  
  >>>> People with weird ideas may use the presence of a language in Wikidata 
as "a foot in the door" and demand a whole Wikipedia.
  >>>
  >>> Do you have any Wikidata related samples for this or is it just an 
abstract argument? I understand that there might be problems you are facing 
with incubator, but we should be able to build Wikidata without affecting it.
  >>
  >> Cannot recall anything from Wikidata, but it happened in lots of other 
places, and it will happen with Wikidata sooner or later. "Why can it be there 
if it can't be here" is a very frequent complaint.
  >
  > If there were no cases in a decade, maybe we can look into it when it 
actually happens.
  
  The whole point is that we don't want it to happen in the first place.
  
  Look, I understand why it looks inefficient, and maybe even totally 
unnecessary in a place that calls itself a wiki, which is a site that anyone 
can edit and where you write first and get things checked later. But the 
definition of a language is a special layer that has extra sensitivity. 
Luckily, it's finite, and it's not needed so frequently that the inefficiency 
grinds everything to a halt.

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