On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Mark Williamson <node...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language > Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community > oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of > "experts", mostly from similar linguistic backgrounds, handing down > judgements about the rest of the world's languages from their > overwhelmingly European ivory tower. It seems we as a community of > people who care deeply about the future of potential new languages and > the success of existing language versions within our Wikimedia > community have no choice but to watch from the sidelines as they do > what they please. > > -m. > > +1 Add to that the fact that a portion of their discussion archives is deliberately hidden from the public as if they are debating state security issues. So even after a decision is taken, we only have a patchy view of the process that led to that decision. -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l