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node.ue at gmail

Jun 24, 2009, 12:20 AM

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What happened to langcom?

Whatever happened to the language committee? No new languages have
been created or even approved for creation in a very long time with
only two exceptions for Wikipedias - the Egyptian Arabic WP in
November and the Pontic WP in March. There are no list archives posted
since January, and the last time a language was even verified as
"eligible" was in April. Did people simply stop requesting languages?
What is going on?

Mark

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millosh at gmail

Jun 24, 2009, 2:37 AM

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Re: What happened to langcom? [In reply to]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Mark Williamson<node.ue [at] gmail> wrote:
> Whatever happened to the language committee? No new languages have
> been created or even approved for creation in a very long time with
> only two exceptions for Wikipedias - the Egyptian Arabic WP in
> November and the Pontic WP in March. There are no list archives posted
> since January, and the last time a language was even verified as
> "eligible" was in April. Did people simply stop requesting languages?
> What is going on?

It seems that Jesse is on vacations. While we are not super-active,
there is some activity and a couple of discussions about the projects.
I'll take care about archiving LangCom's mailing list until Jesse is
back.

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gerard.meijssen at gmail

Jun 24, 2009, 2:41 AM

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Re: What happened to langcom? [In reply to]

Hoi,
There are a number of languages that are being verified. For one of them it
is likely that we will ask approval within the week.

When I speak for myself, the facthas been that the biggest struggle has been
getting the new projects actually created. I find that as a consequence my
motivation has suffered. As a consequence I started to do other things ....
Thanks,
Gerard

2009/6/24 Mark Williamson <node.ue [at] gmail>

> Whatever happened to the language committee? No new languages have
> been created or even approved for creation in a very long time with
> only two exceptions for Wikipedias - the Egyptian Arabic WP in
> November and the Pontic WP in March. There are no list archives posted
> since January, and the last time a language was even verified as
> "eligible" was in April. Did people simply stop requesting languages?
> What is going on?
>
> Mark
>
> skype: node.ue
>
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node.ue at gmail

Jun 24, 2009, 2:52 AM

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Re: What happened to langcom? [In reply to]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Gerard
Meijssen<gerard.meijssen [at] gmail> wrote:
> Hoi,
> There are a number of languages that are being verified. For one of them it
> is likely that we will ask approval within the week.

This is fantastic news, I look forward to the announcement.

> When I speak for myself, the facthas been that the biggest struggle has been
> getting the new projects actually created. I find that as a consequence my
> motivation has suffered. As a consequence I started to do other things ....

Yes, this is certainly very unfortunate.

Mark

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millosh at gmail

Jun 24, 2009, 3:40 AM

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Re: What happened to langcom? [In reply to]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Mark Williamson<node.ue [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Gerard
>> There are a number of languages that are being verified. For one of them it
>> is likely that we will ask approval within the week.
>
> This is fantastic news, I look forward to the announcement.

Just to add the example: The project is waiting because of the [long]
process of checking are the articles at Incubator written in that
language or not. The safest method is to ask someone from LangCom,
then someone of the contacts of LangCom's members, then contacts of
contacts. This is a long process if we are talking about a random
language.

At the other side, already existing languages are easy to handle (just
localization is needed).

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